License generator

This application generates and manages license keys for our products

• This project is meant to replace the existing license key generator AND to improve current licensing mechanism
• License keys are used to control the usage of our product.
• The application will generate commercial and test license keys.
• The generated keys will be associated to pre-existing customers and prospects.
• It will provide the ability to display and report generated licenses and license usage

• This application will be developped in the cockpit source code base
• The code must be modular, allowing to safely include or remove it from the application via maven
• The availability of this application will be controlled by at least two factor:
  • If the application lib has been included in the cockpit package
  • If the application has been activated by superadmin via a specific mean, like a license key
• When enabled, the application will be reachable from left menu, within a CRM section
• The CRM section will contain all apps relative to CRM:
  • License generator
  • Customer accounts
  • Update server, etc…

• It must be possible to create/update customer accounts
• A Customer accounts defines a company which will use our license and are defined the following:
  • Company name
  • A unique ID
  • Contact details for licensing
  • Contact details for upgrades
  • Other contact details (Name, email, role)
  • Open properties
  • Type: Customer/opportunity
  • API keys
    • A list of generated API keys allowing an account to retreive its license information (from Cockpit or collector)

• The generator will allow to generate license keys based on parameters such as
  • host IP
  • expiration date
  • system count
  • product type: NETWEAVER/HANA/BUSINESSOBJECTS/AGENT/DATADOG
  • mode: Expire (default)/Perpetual
• Each license creation will be associated with:
  • A creation date
  • Creation user
  • Description
  • Usage type: Commercial/test
  • All fields are mandatory
• A license must always be associated with an account
• Licenses used for internal usage will use a specific internal flag

• It must be possible to quickly generate a license key with default parameters
• Reflecting the most common use cases, some action button will help to fast track license creation using default parameters
  • Usage type: test
  • Duration quick choice between 15/30 days
  • Reason:
    • POC
    • POC extension
  • IP: *
  • License count: TBD

• It must be possible to list, sort and filter licenses by multiple filters
  • Account
  • Expiration
  • Days left
  • Creator
  • Usage
  • Type
  • filter by Open text (matching the whole object)

• By example
  • List commercial licenses expiring in less than 60 days
  • List accounts with valid commercial licenses

• The license dashboard allows to display license information through multiple tabs or views:
  • Current list of valid commercial licenses per account
  • List of expiring licenses (and maybe recently expired)
  • List of valid accounts (having a valid license)

• An email notification mechanism must be implemented to notify when a license is going to expire.
• This system will be configured with the following parameters:
  • Internal recipients
  • Remaining days Warning notification (To notify when a license is about to expire)
• Once a day, the system will send an email listing all licenses which are about to expire or expired today
  • Account name, license type, license count, creator, creation date

• authorization objects will be defined allowing to control user actions
  • Allow access to license generator
  • Allow license creation
  • Allow account create/update

• The license key is an encrypted set of properties:
  • Customer account
  • IP
  • Expiration date
  • Type
  • Count
  • Mode

• Renew cryptographic to latest standards.
  • latest algorithms.
  • stop using the old crypto libraries in back office.
• Allow larger license payload.
  • Example: Can be achieved by using a symmetric key for content, and then ciphering the symmetric key via public/private key.
• Enable the use of our “future” license server.
  • By registering customer API key, our product would fetch its license keys from our license server.
  • The application could also report its “usage” and we would be able to control it.
• Create a new license model for the cockpit to avoid having to set individual licenses on each collector.
  • When a collector is connected to the cockpit, the cockpit would transfer a SAAS license allowing to monitor anything, but preventing to create any configuration on the collector.