Incremental licensing

Incremental licensing streamlines the license distribution process and saves you time and effort because you don't need separate licenses for each appliance. Purchase monthly capacity increases that can be applied to your deployment, without running the risk that these temporary keys might shut down the entire system when they expire. Now, you can add more flows and events to the Console license and redistribute to your pool of appliances as you see fit. Use your operational budget to add capacity to perpetual licenses on a temporary basis for short-term projects such as network onboarding, reorganizing, and testing use cases.

With incremental licensing, you can now acquire stackable EPS/Flow increments instead of replacing existing console or other managed hosts license when you need to increase the overall event or flow thresholds of your deployment. After the licenses are uploaded and deployed, the event/flow capacity can then be reallocated through the License Pool Management. For example, suppose that you have a 3105 All-in-One with 1000 EPS on a perpetual key. You’re working on a 6-month project where several new log sources need to be on-boarded for a temporary period. Previously, this project would cause the EPS volumes to exceed the 1000 EPS limit. With the new incremental licensing feature, you can purchase an extra 2500 EPS bundle for just 6 months. IBM provides a license key that incrementally raises the EPS from 1000 through to 3500 for the 6-month period. At the end of the 6-month period, the additional 2500 EPS expires, but the original 1000 EPS remains operational, without any additional intervention from support or product distribution.