License co-termination instructions
Summary
License expiration dates could be various for each device in a growth organization. License Co-termination feature can ease IT administrators burden on license management. This feature can align all participant license, each license in the customer’s organization will be automatically adjusted so that all of the customer’s licenses terminate on the same date. (Figure 1).
The operation of License Co-termination will terminate all original licenses, new licenses will be generated for participant devices. Please note that the operation of license co-termination is irreversible which means that original license is Not able to be recovered. Also, new license will be automatically bound to involving devices and initialized by device connection.
Figure 1
Following is detailed explanation.
License Co-termination operates based on an Organization level including:
Participant device in same Organization with below conditions will be taken for Co-termination:
  1. The device with active license.
  2. The device with expired license.
Participant licenses in same Organization will be co-terminated together including:
  1. Active licenses bound on devices.
  2. Inactive licenses bound on devices.
  3. Unused active licenses.
Operation Steps
  1. Click "Calculate license state" button on Co-termination tab. Estimated license expiration date will be calculated and shown if proceeding license co-termination. (Figure 2)
    Figure 2
  2. To proceed the license co-termination, please click "License co-termination" button. (Figure 3)
    Figure 3
  3. Confirmation lightbox will popup with terms and notification. Please note the license co-termination operation is irreversible. The check box of "I understand the terms and still wish to proceed." is mandatory to be checked if the terms are understood and accepted. Now the "Confirm" button is available to execute co-termination. (Figure 4)
    Figure 4
  4. If the involving licenses and devices has changed. Co-termination execution will be ceased. Please redo step 1 and the subsequent.
    5. Note: After calculation, if the remaining days of license expiration is less than 30 days, then it is not be able to use co-termination model.
Calculation
License calculation rule is based on the value of remaining days of the device type. The weight of device type is based on annual subscription MSRP for license. The weight of license types is listed in the table below.

Type DBS DBA DBG-series
Weight 1 2 5
  1. Collect all paticipant licenses.
  2. Catch the remaining day of licenses.
  3. Time the remaining day with device type weight.
  4. Sum up all the weighted remaining day of all participant licenses.
  5. Sum up the weight of all participant devices.
  6. Devide the value of step 4 by the value of step 5. The final result is the new remaining day.
  7. Create new licenses with the roundup remaining day for all participant devices.
Formula:
Examples
On January 14th 2021, you purchased and activated two DBA-1210P with 1-year license.
On October 20th 2021, you purchased and activated one DBG-2000 with 1-year license.
Today is November 5th 2021 to execute License Co-termination.
Original License remaining days:
DBA-1210P (Nov. 5, 2021 – Jan. 14, 2022 = 70 days)
DBG-2000 (Nov. 5, 2021 – Oct. 20, 2022 = 349 days)
70 (remaining days) x 2 (DBA units) x 2 (weight of device type) = 280
349 (remaining days) x 1 (DBG unit) x 5 (weight of device type) = 1745
Device weight in your networks (2 DBA x 2) + (1 DBG x 5) = 9
Calculate in days the remaining time you have after co-termination.
(280 + 1745) / 9 = 225 days
Nov. 5, 2021 + 225 days = June 18, 2022.
New expiration date for all devices will be June 18th, 2022.