Licensing

NOTE: In the Panopticon documentation, HyperWorks Units (HWU) and Hosted HyperWorks Units (HHWU) are now named Altair Units and Hosted Altair Units, respectively.

In the Panopticon product, these license types are still named HyperWorks Units and Hosted HyperWorks Units.

For more information on Altair Units, visit https://www.altair.com/altair-units/.

Licensing within Panopticon Designer (Desktop) supports six modes of operation:

Stand-alone with Altair Units license
Stand-alone with Hosted Altair Units license
Stand-alone with a volume-based license file
Connected to a Panopticon Visualization Server with Altair Units license
Connected to a Panopticon Visualization Server with Hosted Altair Units license
Connected to a Panopticon Visualization Server with a volume-based license file

For the stand-alone installation, both the Altair Units license and volume license file (DatawatchLicense.xml) are delivered separately from the installation packages.

If you install Panopticon Designer (Desktop) for use with the Panopticon Visualization Server component, the Designer software will retrieve its license (Altair Units or volume-based) automatically from the server.

For the volume-based license file (DatawatchLicense.xml), Panopticon Visualization Server allows the systems administrator to manually copy to the intended location.
For the Altair Units license, refer to the Server Installation and Troubleshooting Guide for more information.

Full details on how to set the license type are included in separate Panopticon Designer and Panopticon Visualization Server Installation and Troubleshooting Guides.

NOTE:

Starting with version 17.4, the Nalpeiron Licensing service is no longer supported alongside with the activation of Panopticon Designer (Desktop) using the License Manager.
The license checkout uses standard leveling based on the username & hostname (i.e., running multiple instances of Panopticon Designer (Desktop) on the same machine draws 21 units/21000 features)