CounterPath Bria 4 Provisioning Guide - Enterprise Deployments - Manual (Page 7)

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1 About Provisioning
1.1 Provisioning Functions
Bria provisioning includes the following features:
Login: Controlling access to the VoIP service through a remote login.
License key provisioning: The ability to provide a license key remotely. See below.
Feature provisioning: Updating the Bria configuration (changing the factory defaults). Bria can be
configured differently for each user. This feature is optional and is handled as part of the remote login process or
separately through remote update (page 16).
Upgrade: Providing upgrades to the executable by making new versions of Bria available to each Bria
installation to download. This feature is optional.
1.2 Licenses
When you obtain Bria, you purchase a license with a specified number of seats.
Scope of Licenses
A license can be shared by users on the same computer if the users are using the Windows administrator or
regular user accounts. However, a user who uses this computer with the Windows guest account and starts Bria
will automatically draw down the license count (assuming that a license key has already been entered).
Drawing Down of Licenses
Each time a user enters the license key, the license count is drawn down on the CounterPath license database.
When the count is drawn down to 0, then the next time the key is entered, an error message appears for that user.
You can either increase your license count or revoke unused seats. To revoke seats, go to
www.counterpath.com, click the Store link, click the Your Account link, and log in.
As described above, use of a Windows guest account draws down the license count. Therefore, if you seem to
have drawn down more license counts than expected, the problem may be that one or more guests have used
seats. You can request that CounterPath revoke these licenses in order to reinstate the number of seats actually
in use.
Provisioning and Managing Licenses
Remote login lets you provision the license at initial login, then manage the license at further logins, as desired.
See page 12 for more details.