Overview

This free utility program allows anybody to activate, deactivate and otherwise manage Local Network Licenses for any or all IES products activated in a single location. You can run this utility on any machine, which does not need to have the IES products installed. You may download this utility.

Getting started

Download and install ManageIT from our website at: https://www.iesweb.com/downloads

Your IES Account

Customer ID

Enter your Customer ID into the field. The utility will store this so you can reference it later if needed.

Share Folder

Your IES licenses will be stored in a Windows Share folder that you create. This folder must have a UNC or FQDN path (begins with \\), and you must set the permissions on this folder so that all users of the IES products can read and write files in this folder.  After entering your path the tool will verify that it exists and that YOU can read/write into the folder

Activate a New License

To activate your IES licenses, you will need a License ID and either the account password, or the activation password for that license.  These are found in the Customer License Portal. Each product is activated exactly ONCE.  After that, clients may connect to the license to use it.  If you run out of activations it typically means you did not deactivate a previous installation.

Moving or Deactivating Licenses

To move licenses to a different server or share folder, you must first select the product, then deactivate the license.  To change the share folder, first deactivate all licenses for all products.

License Information

• Company: The company name on the account
• License ID: The purchased unique ID for this product-license
• License Type: Either 'Perpetual' or 'Subscription'. Subscriptions stop functioning when expired.
• License Level: For VisualAnalysis, indicates the level purchased (Advanced, Full Design, etc.). See VisualAnalysis Levels for more information.
• Expiration: The date the license maintenance or subscription is active through.
• Concurrent Users: Number of people (seats or workstations) that can use the license simultaneously

Changing the Number of Seats

You may purchase additional seats for your license by Contacting Sales. After licenses are updated by IES, you can refresh the licenses in ManageIT, or in the product through any client to get these changes migrated into the license files.

License Check-Out

IES network licenses do not provide a way to check-out a seat to use offline, on a laptop or outside of the network. You must have a connection to your network to use a seat. If you need this ability, your company could purchase a single-user license for this purpose.

Automate Clients

This button will generate a Registry script file (.reg) that contains connection information for your license. 

If you are changing servers or share folders, you will need to manually edit this file to add entries for specific products. Otherwise the client machine will continue to "point" to the old license location.

You can then 'merge' this information onto any client machine to assist clients or automate the connection.

Manually Connecting a Client

Running the software on a client machine allows you to manually 'connect' to an already activated license in the share folder by typing in the path.  Once you enter a path it is stored in the system registry for convenience.  If the share folder changes or you wish to automate how clients connect you can create or change these system registry entries using your magic IT tools.

These entries contain the location of the Share Folder (a UNC or FQDN path) and the name of the engineer using the software, this name will appear in software reports.

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IES\NetworkCustomerName 
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IES\NetworkLicenseShare
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IES\[ProductName]\NetworkLicenseShare

On startup, IES software will locate these entries and attempt to use a network license from that location.

Usage Log

When network licenses are used and released, entries are made into a text file log. This file resides in your share folder and you may view it at any time to see how and when licenses are used.  This information can help you decide if you need more or fewer seats of a license.  You may delete this file and it will get recreated as needed.