TestComplete 8 License Manager Question

Hi Neil,



Log in to ClientServices on another machine that has access to the Internet. Then open this page. It contains a manual activation wizard whose steps require activating a license on a machine that does not have Internet connection. Currently, the customer account home page does not have a link to this page. We'll add it after TC 8 is released.



For additional information about the manual activation procedure, see the "Manual Activation Procedure" help topic of TC 8 Licensing Guide (located in <TestComplete 8>\Help\).

Hi Jared,

Thanks for the response.



I tried to use the manual activation procedure, but failed at step 4 "Activate License on the License Manager PC".



The "link for downloading the file generated on the previous step" shows a file with a v2c extension, but when I click the link an xml file opens in Internet Explorer. If I right mouse and save target as..., an xml file (911291686014.xml) is saved.



I tried to run the procedure again, but at step 4 I got a dummy page instead of the page I saw before.



I attach the file I uploaded (generated by the manual activation wizard), and the file I saved from the link.

I have just used the xml file as input to the license update wizard, and it now says "Update written successfully".



So now I think I understand the license activation process. The problem is that I have activated the floating user license on the wrong machine. Now my development PC is the license manager PC. That is not what I want. I need to find an obsolete machine that I can add into my test lab network as the License Manager PC, dedicated to managing AQA licenses. I need to make my development machine not a license manager PC, and transfer the role to the dedicated machine. Is there a mechanism for doing this?



What is the recommended process to follow if the License Manager PC fails? If the hard drive on the License Manager PC is replaced?



Please recommend a licensing regime for this scenario:

An office has a dedicated software testing lab, with four slave machines and a TestComplete server.

A tester creates test cases on her laptop, and runs them one at a time to verify them.

As test cases are verified, the tester adds them to the regression test suite, and transfers them to a software testing lab.

The software testing lab runs regressions tests overnight.

Tests that produce unexpected results are repeated on the tester's laptop for investigation.