I would like to ask how the STAAD Planwin license was used or activated on user machine. We received two email notification from SELECTserverOnline@bentley.com stating two users have utilized the license. I'm trying to restrict it from our hosted select server - checkout restriction but cannot find this license file from the list. See embedded images. How come there is an overage use of this license when it is not appearing on the list?
If a user has access to the Software Fulfillment Center to download software, any product can be retrieved and installed for evaluation purposes. Because of this, you may want to restrict Software Download access to specific people. This can be accomplished via the User Management portal.
Since a license for STAAD Planwin is not listed on your license file, the product will not activate but will operate in a trial mode until it expires. Once expired, the product will no longer open unless activated against a license. Trial usage of products is still reported, which would explain the overage notification, but the first 30 days of such usage in an entire site will not be considered for billing purposes as mentioned in the following forum post. If you do not intend to evaluate this product, then I recommend determining the machines where STAAD Planwin is installed by running an Applications By Machine report under Reports -> Inventory Reports and removing the product.
SS4 uses license checkouts. So if a license is not available for checkout, the design code cannot be used anyway. If you have design code licenses available but want to restrict access to them, consider using a Custom Activation Group.
With SS5 and later, the design code settings are now stored within the models themselves. A model can be searched for CODE lines to determine what design codes are in use.
The default design codes used for new models can be accessed from within STAAD.Pro by clicking on the Configuration link in the Project Tasks sidebar and modifying the settings on the Default Design Codes tab as shown in the screenshot below. I have not found a programmatic way to do this, but experts in our RAM | STAAD forum may be able to assist.
Yes, the previously mentioned batch file can be used to expire any design code licenses you want to restrict. When loading a model using an expired design code, an activation dialog will appear.
Following are the ID numbers that correspond to each of the design codes. They can be used with the batch file:
1598 STAAD Asia Design Codes
1592 STAAD British Specialized Design Codes
1591 STAAD British Std Design Codes
1590 STAAD CAN/AUS/SA Design Codes
1751 STAAD Chinese Design Code
1596 STAAD E. Eurozone Design Codes
2334 STAAD ECC Super Code
1593 STAAD Euro Design Codes
1594 STAAD Eurozone Design Codes
1601 STAAD Global Design Code
1597 STAAD India Design Codes
1599 STAAD Japan Design Codes
1589 STAAD Latin American Design Codes
1600 STAAD ME Design Codes
1595 STAAD N. Eurozone Design Codes
1785 STAAD Nuclear Design Codes
2333 STAAD UK Super Code
1588 STAAD US Specialized Design Codes
1587 STAAD US Std Design Codes