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CDP for Teradata VCL Licensing Model

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CDP for Teradata VCL Licensing Model

CDP for Teradata VCL is offered as part of the CipherTrust Flex Connector Advanced licensing. It can be used with Trial License or CipherTrust Manager Enterprise Edition.

Trial License

Provides the fully-functional CDP for Teradata VCL for 90 days with pre-installed trial license. After the trial period expires, CDP for Teradata VCL continues to work normally, however, new client registrations are not allowed.

This is the default license shipped with the CipherTrust Manager.

CipherTrust Manager Enterprise Edition

Licenses with CipherTrust Manager Enterprise Edition is limited by the number of licenses purchased. When a client is registered, a license is consumed.

There is no limitation on the number of configured applications on the CipherTrust Manager, but if you try to register clients beyond the procured licenses, the system throws the following error:

License not yet installed for feature CDP for Teradata VCL

To free up a license, you must remove all registered clients from the application.

Activating CDP for Teradata VCL Licenses

Once you have purchased your entitlement of a CipherTrust Flex Connector Advanced licensing, it needs to be converted to a CDP for Teradata VCL specific license file for use with the CipherTrust Manager. To do so, take your entitlement to the Sentinel EMS License Portal as well as your EID and select CDP for Teradata VCL under Variant. You can find the details about your EID and available licenses on the License Portal.

Refer to Activating a Connector License for details.

After the CDP for Teradata VCL license is activated, its state becomes Active on the Features tab of the Licensing page of the CipherTrust Manager GUI. The license is displayed with the feature name CDP for Teradata VCL.

License Enforcement for CDP for Teradata VCL

CDP for Teradata VCL licenses are enforced by the following:

  • The CipherTrust Manager appliance has activated Connector licenses: The CipherTrust Manager appliance has activated Connector licenses: When CDP for Teradata VCL licenses are activated and uploaded to the CipherTrust Manager, you can register clients under the applications up to the license capacity. However, there is no restriction on the number of applications configured on CipherTrust Manager. Whenever a CDP for Teradata VCL client is registered with an application, a license is consumed. Licenses are available and shared across domains. For example, if there are five licenses for CDP for Teradata VCL, only five clients in total can be registered across all domains.

  • Reaching license capacity: Additional clients can't be registered because the license count has been exhausted. In this case, users can delete currently registered clients or buy more licenses.

  • License expires: The CipherTrust Manager GUI displays a red banner, at the top, to inform the administrator that licenses have expired. If there are more clients using licenses than capacity available, no new clients can be registered under the new application. Currently, registered clients will be allowed to continue until their natural end. There is no grace period when the license expires.

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