Introduction
ReadyAPI is an API testing platform. It allows the developers to automate testing.
It can be used for different types of testing:
⭐ Functional Testing - You can set tests for each application's functionality and check if your service works as expected. You can also test the security of your service and verify that it can resist the most common attacks.
⭐ Performance Testing - You can test the performance of the service against various situations. You can put a huge amount of load on the service to check if it is working properly in such conditions.
After downloading and installing the ReadyAPI software, you will need a license to use the ReadyAPI software. The licenses are handled by the ReadyAPI License Management Portal which is available on the global web, however, you might want to use the license through a private network that is not connected to the global web. In this case, you will have to activate offline licensing in ReadyAPI.
In this article, we will discuss using the ReadyAPI license in Private Networks.
ReadyAPI in Private Network
As mentioned above, ReadyAPI licenses are handled by License Management Server that is connected to the global web. A license administrator manages the license on the server. The license manager can be anyone, you can appoint anyone from your team to be the license manager or if it is just you who is using the license (i.e, the license belongs to one person), then you yourself can be the license manager.
If you are using ReadyAPI through a private network, then you will have to activate special licenses.
In ReadyAPI a single license can be owned by an individual or by a group of people.
⭐Fixed License - It strictly defines the users who can use the license seats.
Say, there are ten seats in the license, then ten seats can be revoked and reassigned each seat once, or one seat 10 times, or in any combination up to a maximum of 10 reassignments.
There is a limit on the number of times licenses can be reassigned. After the limit has been crossed the license management server will return an error.
The license is bind to the user device.
⭐Floating License - Floating licenses are used by organizations where multiple employees need to work with the same product concurrently.
The license administrator assigns the license to several users and every user to whom the license is assigned can run this product if a free license seat is available.
Let’s learn how to activate these two types of licenses in a Private Network.
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