Tekla Structures legacy on-premises licensing
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Legacy on-premises licenses are an alternative to the default Tekla Structures subscription. The type of subscription or license is determined when you purchase a license, so you cannot change between on-premises licenses and subscriptions yourself. You activate on-premises licenses on a license server that you install on your own computer hardware. Tekla Structures installations for one or more users connect to the license server to reserve a license.
Legacy on-premises licensing technology
With legacy on-premises licensing, Tekla Structures uses FlexNet (FlexNet Publisher License Management) licensing system by Flexera Software. We provide our own Tekla-specific tools for managing the licenses on top of the common FlexNet platform, replacing some of the standard tools that you might have encountered when using other software products that use FlexNet for licensing.
The license server software is compatible with several versions of Tekla Structures. To see which license server version to use with your current Tekla Structures version, see Tekla License Server 2022 system recommendations. The licenses are also compatible with older versions of Tekla Structures in addition to the highest allowed version stated in the license. The license is sent to you attached in an email as an entitlement certificate HTML file.