Grouping licenses

In cases where a web console user has created multiple license contracts for the same product using the Add new license set option (see Assigning license sets) and needs to assign modules to the product and/or wants to set the same expiration date for all contracts, you can generate a single contract by grouping licenses.

You cannot group annual or monthly (MSSP Command) license contracts.

License grouping process

Follow these steps:

  • In the top menu, select Status. In the Monitoring section, find the client whose licenses you want to group. In the Client column, click the client name.

  • On the Client details page > Assigned licenses section, click . Select Group licenses. A confirmation dialog box appears.

At the end of the process, there is one license contract with all licenses and a pro-rata expiration date for all licenses.

Formula for calculating the new license period

In the grouping process, we use the number of licenses in each license contract and its expiration date to calculate the final result. The result is a single license contract with the total sum of licenses and a shorter license period. In general terms, the process follows this logic:

  • We compare the expiration date of each license contract to the current date to calculate the number of days remaining on each license contract.

  • We multiply the number of days remaining on each license contract by the number of licenses in the contract to get the total number of days remaining on each license contract.

  • We calculate the total number of days remaining for the client by adding up the total number of days remaining on each license contract.

  • We calculate the total number of licenses by adding up the licenses assigned in each license contract.

  • We divide the total number of days remaining by the total number of licenses to get the total number of days of service.

Example of a license grouping operation

A client has four Panda Endpoint Protection Plus license contracts with these licenses and license periods:

  • License contract A: 5 licenses with 18 days remaining.

  • License contract B: 1 license with 44 days remaining.

  • License contract C: 1 license with 75 days remaining.

  • License contract D: 4 licenses with 159 days remaining.

Calculation of the number of license days remaining:

  • Total number of days remaining: (5 licenses x 18 days) + (1 license x 44 days) + (1 license x 75 days) + (4 licenses x 159 days)= 845 days.

  • Total number of licenses: 5 + 1 + 1 + 4 = 11 licenses across four license contracts.

  • Number of days of service: 845 / 11 = 76.8 days.

At the end of the license grouping process, the client has a single license contract which expires in 77 days and covers the 11 computers on their network.