Using the License Manager
SSIS Integration Toolkit comes with a license manager program which helps you manage and activate the product license key to be used for the toolkit. The below information is useful for development workstations and Single Server license management. For Azure-SSIS IR deployments, license management and activation will be handled through the PowerShell script, see Running SSIS Integration Toolkit on the Cloud for further details.
Without a commercial license, SSIS Integration Toolkit will operate under the Developer License which is free to use for development or evaluation purpose. Under the developer license, you can use the software within the development tool (SSDT-BI, BIDS, or Visual Studio).
The only limitation with the free developer license is the inability to run the software outside of the development tool (SSDT-BI, BIDS, or Visual Studio). If you would like to run the software outside the development tool, such as running SSIS packages on a scheduled basis or from a command line, you will need to acquire a license from us.
If you want to test out the functionality by scheduling your SSIS packages, a trial license can be requested. To do so, you can launch License Manager program, then click "Change/Update License Key..." button, where you can request a free trial license after filling out the necessary Licensee Information.
If you have received a product license key from us after placing an order through our online shopping cart system, you can also click "Change/Update License Key..." button and enter the product license key in order to activate the software to use the fully-featured commercial license.
Licensee field is where you will specify the company the software is licensed to, you can include you system's machine name for future reference. For example, the Licensee can be "ABC Inc." or "XYZ Corp (SQLSVR-001)." The Contact Email would be the person we reach out to for any license related notices such as renewal reminders.
To request a free trial license or activate a product license key that you have received, you can use Web Service option to complete the process by sending the request to our license server directly. An Internet connection is required when Web Service option is used. This is the option that we recommend.
Alternatively, you can choose the Email option so that the license manager will generate an email for you which you can send to us. The Email option should only be used if your system has no Internet access. It requires manual processing so please expect to wait for 24 to 48 hours before receiving a license file from us. Once you have received the license file from us from through email, you can save it to a local file, which you can then install by clicking "Install License File..." button in License Manager.
If you have acquired a license from us, once the software has been activated, your license manager will be shown as something like below.
Connection Tier will display the number of distinct connections your license supports per connection type within a 24 hour period at runtime. Multiple connections to the same instance are typically treated as 1 distinct connection (exceptions may apply depending on the nature of the service). Selecting the magnify icon will launch the Runtime Connection Usage Summary window which will display counts on the number of connections made per connection type and when the 24 hour period will reset.
If you own a perpetual license from us, you should be able to see your Maintenance Expiry Date in the License Manager program. By default, your perpetual license should be instated with a one-year maintenance and upgrade included, which entitles you to use any version of the software released before your Maintenance Expiry Date. To extend your software license maintenance, log in to our portal and navigate to the license key using the License Keys menu. From there, you can renew the license or otherwise reach out to our Client Services team to request their assistance in renewing your license terms.
Note: Perpetual license is only applicable to clients who have previously acquired such a license before the deprecation of the license type. It is no longer offered for any new purchases.
If your commercial license is a subscription license, you will not see the Maintenance Expiry Date option in the License Manager program, since your subscription license comes with maintenance and upgrade for the entire subscription period. Instead you will see your license expiry date and a progress bar with the amount of days left on your subscription.
Note: You must run License Manager program under a local administrative account due to the privileges required to write license file to the system.