Returning a hardware-based license key

Learn about the steps to return a hardware-based license key or Rational Tokens for Hardware-based License Server.

Returning an existing hardware-based license key
For perpetual license entitlements, the hardware-based license are set to expire one year from the date that an update file is generated. For this type of entitlement, you can return previously generated update files at any time, and generate a new update file.
Returning Rational Tokens for Hardware-based License Server
For perpetual license entitlements, USB hardware device activations are set to expire one year from the date an update file is generated. For this type of entitlement, you can return previously generated update files at any time and generate a new update file.

Parent topic: Hardware-based licensing