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The Cloud-Based Floating License for Simio allows multiple users to activate a license key from the internet, with concurrent usage limited to purchased license seats. Activation involves specific steps within the Simio software, and users must ensure they have available license seats to activate successfully. The document also provides guidance on maintaining licenses while offline and instructions for changing license types.

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SimioCloudBasedFloatingLicensingReferenceManual (1)

The Cloud-Based Floating License for Simio allows multiple users to activate a license key from the internet, with concurrent usage limited to purchased license seats. Activation involves specific steps within the Simio software, and users must ensure they have available license seats to activate successfully. The document also provides guidance on maintaining licenses while offline and instructions for changing license types.

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Cloud-Based

Floating
Licensing
Reference Manual
V7 | REV: 2 0 2 1 0 8 1 3
online activation
instructions 01
A Cloud-Based Floating License operates Activation Instructions:
by pulling a license seat from the internet (Subscription and Perpetual)
when opening Simio and returns the 1. Open Simio.
license seat by closing Simio. This type of 2. Click “File” and then “Licensing”
license allows as many users as desired 3. Select correct licensing type in Simio.
to activate the license key received from A. If this is your first license, choose ““Node-
[email protected] on their computer. Locked & Cloud-Based Floating”
However, the number of concurrent users B. If this is not your first license, choose “Change
is limited to the number of license seats License Type” and then “Node-Locked & Cloud-
Based Floating”
purchased. If there are no available license
4. Click “Activate your License”
seats, Simio will open in Personal Edition.
5. Click “Activate Online”
6. Enter “Activation Key” with the key provided by
Simio Licensing Assistance ([email protected])
7. Click “Activate License Key”
8. You should see “Your License is Activated”
then click “Finish”. You should see the edition of
software received by your organization in Simio’s
title bar.

Note: If your license did not activate, there may not be any
available license seats at the moment. You will need an
available license seat to be able to activate on your machine.

Firewall Note: If you have a firewall, you may need to open


the HTTPS Port, usually Port 443, or allow qlm1.net/simio/
qlmlicenseserver/qlmservice.asmx to get through.

LICENSING SUPPORT:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 412-528-1576

SIMIO LLC Cloud-Based Floating License v7 | rev: 20210813 ACTIVATION | 01


offline licenses/
license change 02
QLM Self Help: Keeping a License While
QLM provides a self-help website where you can perform
some licensing tasks. Activating and deleting a license,
Offline:
getting license key information, and emailing licensing keys A Cloud-Based Floating License is intended to be used while
to the associated email address can all be performed at: connected to the internet, however sometimes connecting
https://qlm1.net/simio/qlmcustomersite/. to the internet may not be possible. Due to this, the only way
to return a Cloud-Based Floating License to the internet is by
closing Simio while connected to the internet.
The following are a few ways to keep your license when
going offline:
1. Disconnect from the internet, close Simio – when Simio
is reopened, a license will still be active
2. Put the laptop to sleep, close the laptop lid, take it
home/on a plane/etc – when the lid is reopened and
computer is woken up, a license will still be active
3. Close Simio by going to File and then clicking “Exit,
Keeping License”– when Simio is reopened, a license
will still be active
The only way to return a license is to close Simio while
connected to the internet.
Note: Carefully consider keeping a license while offline as
this could cause a shortage of licenses if users are not actively
returning their license seats. Simio Licensing Assistance cannot
assist in the returning or managing of licenses.

Changing from a Cloud-


Based Floating License to
Another License:
When switching between a Cloud-Based Floating License and
another license, you must deactivate the Cloud-Based Floating
License before activating the other license to return the Cloud-
Based Floating License to the internet.

LICENSING SUPPORT:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 412-528-1576

SIMIO LLC Cloud-Based Floating License v7 | rev: 20210813 OFFLINE LICENSING/LICENSE CHANGE | 02

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