License Policy and Activation Process
Production policy and operational procedure for requesting, activating, extending, assigning, monitoring and recording licenses for C4 installations, primarily C4 Transformers. It defines the Edition, Plugin and extension license model; EDU, SLS, test, demo and SDK entitlements; business-code compatibility; server and MAC-address binding; mandatory activation order; online activation in C4 Client and offline activation through Portal Services; device-level assignment and mixed expiry; and controls for upgrades, hardware and virtualization changes, migration, recovery and decommissioning. It also establishes security, evidence, audit, handover, exception and troubleshooting requirements, including verification of the final target, topology, quantities, validity and key contents before irreversible activation.
