Contents

Introduction

This document gives a high-level overview of how the license management process works.

License Management Process

The steps involved in the License management Process is as follows:

• Getvisibility(GV) will register its resellers in the customer management system.

• The success code of registration and URL will be sent to ForcePoint (FP)

• FP will use GV customer management API to register a new customer (Check the open API specification for more details)

  • New Customer Name

  • License Type

  • Region

  • Number of Users

  • Expiration Time

• Based on the information received GV will return via API response the registration command for the customer in the specific region like:

  • EMEA

  • US

  • India

• On the clusters GV will perform:

  • Deploy Essential Services

  • Deploy Monitoring Tools

  • Deploy GV Services

• After the basic deployment, GV tools are ready for use.

Hold/Revoke License

The steps involved in revoking the license are as follows:

• Using the Monitoring tools enabled, GV will receive various statistics related to user usage.

• The statistics are stored in the GV databases.

• As soon as the number of users exceeds the specified customer limit as per the license, a trigger is generated in GV.

• The FP sales engineer can make a decision to disable the UI and plugins.