The device changes without activation are calculated based on three variables. If you have several installations of the Milestone software, the variables apply to each of them separately. The variables are:
The number of device changes without activation can never be lower than the Cmin value or higher than the Cmax value. The calculated value based on the C% variable changes according to how many activated devices you have on each installation in your system. Devices added with device changes without activation are not counted as activated by the C% variable.
Milestone defines the values of all three variables and the values are subject to change without notification. The values of the variables differ depending on the product.
For more information about the current default values for your product, go to My Milestone.
Examples based on C% = 15%, Cmin = 10 and Cmax =100
A customer buys 100 hardware device licenses. He adds 100 cameras to his system. Unless he has enabled automatic license activation, his device changes without activation is still zero. He activates his licenses and he now has 15 device changes without activation.
A customer buys 100 hardware device licenses. He adds 100 cameras to his system and activates his licenses. His device changes without activation is now 15. The customer decides to delete a hardware device from his system. He has now 99 activated devices and his number of device changes without activation drops to 14.
A customer buys 1000 hardware device licenses. He adds 1000 cameras and activates his licenses. His device changes without activation is now 100. According to the C% variable, he should now have had 150 devices changes without activation, but the Cmax variable only allows him to have 100 devices changes without activation.
A customer buys 10 hardware device licenses. He adds 10 cameras to his system and activates his licenses. His number of device changes without activation is now 10 because of the Cmin variable. If the number was only calculated based on the C% variable, he would only have had 1 (15% of 10 = 1.5 rounded off to 1).
A customer buys 115 hardware device licenses. He adds 100 cameras to his system and activates his licenses. His device changes without activation is now 15. He adds another 15 cameras without activating them, using 15 out of 15 of his device changes without activation. He removes 50 of the cameras from the system and his device changes without activation goes down to 7. This means that 8 of the cameras previously added within the 15 device changes without activation go into a grace period. The customer now adds 50 new cameras. Because the customer activated 100 cameras on his system last time he activated his licenses, the device changes without activation goes back to 15 and the 8 cameras, which were moved into a grace period, moves back as device changes without activation. The 50 new cameras go into a grace period.
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