Assigning Licenses to Users

To be able to work with StarTeam, users must have a named user license or a concurrent license. By default, users are assigned to use concurrent licensing. The StarTeam Server Administrator uses the User Manager in the Server Administration Tool to assign licenses to existing users or to new users.

From the User Manager, you can use the User Properties dialog box or context menu to assign licenses. Generally, use the context menu for bulk actions and the User Properties dialog box for assigning licenses to users one at a time. Licenses can also be assigned using LDAP Quickstart Manager (usually done in bulk but can be done one-by-one). Which of these you choose depends on what you are doing as illustrated in these scenarios:

• If you are adding a new user and filling in all the data about him/her, you can assign a license as part of the process. This would most likely be done in the New User Properties dialog box.
• If you are upgrading and need to assign a group of existing users to a new license slip for the new release, you can multi-select the appropriate users and assign them to a slip simultaneously. You would do this from the context menu.
• If you have been evaluating StarTeam and now have purchased native licenses or licenses to be used with a license server, you can select all the existing users (from the evaluation period) from your production server configuration and assign them to a license type or a license slip. You would do this from the context menu.
• If a group of people have been laid off and you no longer want them to use StarTeam, you can select them all and change their license type to Unassigned.