Configure license behavior

This topic describes how to configure your UFT One license behavior.

If you are installing UFT Developer on Linux or Mac, or UFT Developer standalone, see the UFT Developer Help Center instead.

In this topic:

General license settings

General licensing behavior is managed in the AutoPass license configuration file, located on your UFT One or UFT Developer machine. This file includes details about supported options and values.

UFT One 24.2 and later	UFT One 23.4
The file is located at: C:\ProgramData\OpenText\UFT\License\autopass.txt	The file is located at: C:\ProgramData\Micro Focus\UFT\License\autopass.txt

Additional configurations include:

• Configure the licensing fallback mechanism. Perform this procedure if your concurrent license server has multiple license editions installed, and you want to always ensure that your product can find an available license.
• Configure licensing timeouts. Define the timeout period after which your license is released.

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Configure the licensing fallback mechanism

Define whether your system uses the licensing fallback mechanism for UFT One and UFT Developer as follows:

1. On your AutoPass License Server machine, browse to the C:\ProgramData\autopass\apls\licenseserver\data\conf\UFT.xml file.

   Note: This file is available with AutoPass versions 9.3 or higher.

2. Edit and add keys and values to set the following values to true, as needed:

   Product	License type	Key
   UFT One	Any	license.fallback.uft.rte
   Runtime Engine	Any	license.fallback.rte.rte
   UFT Developer	UFT Developer	license.fallback.leanft.leanft
   UFT Developer	Runtime Engine	license.fallback.leanft.rte

   Make sure that you add key entries within the <properties> element and after the <comment> element.

   Edit and add keys and values in the following format:

   <entry key="{Key}">{Value}</entry>

Finding a Runtime Engine license

If the fallback mechanism is enabled, and an available Runtime Engine license is found, you will only be able to run your tests, with no creation or editing abilities.

Ensure that you can always access the UFT One IDE or the UFT Developer IDE plug-ins by doing one of the following:

• Deactivate the fallback mechanism by setting the key values to false (this is the default).

• Contact your License Server administrator to ensure that any UFT One Runtime Engine licenses are blocked or are in use.

For more details, see Licensing fallback mechanism.

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Configure licensing timeouts

Define the number of minutes, with no keyboard or mouse input, after which UFT One or UFT Developer releases the currently used concurrent license.

Configure a timeout for UFT One or UFT Developer

1. On your UFT One or UFT Developer machine, open the LicenseSettings.xml file for editing.

   UFT One 24.2 and later	UFT One 23.4
   The file is located in the C:\ProgramData\OpenText\UFT\License folder	The file is located in the C:\ProgramData\Micro Focus\UFT\License folder

2. Update the following parameters with the number of minutes you want to define for your timeout:

   LicenseAutoReleaseInterval	The number of minutes after which a confirmation message appears, warning the user that the license is about to time-out.
   ConfirmLicenseReleaseTimeout	The number of minutes after which the confirmation message closes, and the license is released.

Configure a timeout for your AutoPass concurrent license server

On your AutoPass License Server machine, browse to the UFT.xml file at C:\ProgramData\autopass\apls\licenseserver\data\conf\UFT.xml.

Open the file for editing, and add the following line of code:

where # is the number of minutes of inactivity.

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See also:

• Licensing FAQs
• Known issues with UFT One licensing
• UFT One licensing
• Blog: Take a deep dive into Unified Functional Testing’s new license management