Ensure Metered Licensing is enabled on your Qube Supervisor


    Metered Licensing is enabled by default on all Qube Supervisors, provided your supervisor is v6.9-0 or later

    Qube 6.9-0 is the minimum Qube version for the Metered Licensing feature, previous versions of Qube don't support this feature.

    If your supervisor is a version earlier than 6.9-0, you will have to upgrade it to take advantage of Metered Licensing.

    Optional settings

    You may throttle the number of metered licenses your supervisor will use at any one time with the supervisor_max_metered_licenses parameter.  This value is compared with the Concurrent Metered limit set on the Metered Licensing Portal, and the lower of the two values is used.

    See also

    supervisor_max_metered_licenses

    Setting up your accounts on the Metered Licensing Portal


    Login to the Metered Licensing Portal at https://metered.pipelinefx.com

    Create a user account

    Follow the link at the bottom of the login pane to create a new account.

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    Make a note of the user name and password, you'll need them for the Metered License Agent (MLA) installation.

    Once you've completed the user signup, you will receive an email with the subject line: PipelineFX metered license server: New user account activation. You must click on the link in that email to activate your user account.

    Once your user account has been activated, you'll have the option to "Create a company account" or "Join an existing Company account".  

    During the initial setup, you'll want to Create a new Billing account.

           

    • Account Name: required - this should be your company or studio name, not your user name
    • Reporting Contact: required - an email address to receive notifications, alerts, etc sent by the MLS
    • Billing Contact: optional - an email address for you monthly invoice statements.  If not defined, your invoice will be sent to the Reporting Contact.

    Add your supervisor to the billing account

     

    The MAC Address field is required, the description is optional.

    The supervisor MAC address can be found several different ways:

    • from the hostid field in your Qube License file:

      #######################################################
      [license_S_6f3788f8477611e69118022eb6d22d19]
      supervisor = 1 
      vendor = "Pipelinefx L.L.C."
      version = 6.9 
      type = unlimited
      software = qube
      hostid = 14:10:9F:E3:70:FD
      assign_date = "Jul 11, 2016"
      licensee = "PFX - jburk test"
      exp_date = "Jul 11, 2017"
      key = 106fac098b002188176b0fb45a0ab21f
      #######################################################
    • from the output of the qbping command-line utility

    supervisor - active - tag: 127.0.0.1 14:10:9F:E3:70:FD 6.9-0 rel-6.9-0001 osx -  - host - 0/10 unlimited licenses (metered=0/0) - mode=0 (0).

    • With WranglerView:
      • Show the log panel with View->Show/Hide Log Panel

      • run Administration->Ping Supervisor

        • copy & the MAC address from the bottom of the log panel

    Add a description to the new supervisor entry (optional)

    Click in the description field to add or edit easily-recognizable name for your supervisor.

    License Usage Data Collector Installation and Configuration


    Your supervisor's license usage must be tracked in order to utilize PipelineFX's Metered Licensing.  In order for this to occur, a data collector must be installed and configured.

    Which data collector is installed depends on your operating system and Qube version.  The following table can be used to direct you to the appropriate documentation

    Operating SystemQube VersionData Collector Installation
    Windowsup to 7.0Metered License Agent
    OS Xup to 7.0Metered License Agent
    Linux6.9Metered License Agent
    Linux6.10 and laterData Relay Agent

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