License Management options - External licences and partners, how does it work

[Matt67 (Matthieu LEVAL)]

Hello,

regarding this documentation:
(Vue d'ensemble - Options de gestion des licences)

And this sub suject

Licences externes et partenaires

Les partenaires qui utilisent la même licence dans plusieurs organisations clientes peuvent demander l’activation de la fonctionnalité de licence externe sur l’organisation cliente. De cette façon, les partenaires peuvent apporter leur propre licence et se connecter aux services Orchestrator du client sans utiliser le pool de licences client.

Cela n’est possible que pour les UGS de développeur et nécessite que Studio soit activé avec une clé de licence autonome. Contactez notre équipe d’assistance ou votre contact UiPath pour plus de détails sur la façon d’activer cette fonctionnalité.

Can you please help more and explain how this work ?

We work with partners and they help us for some automations. They currently consume an Automation Developer licence from our orchestrator, they connect to a virtual machine provided by us.

Is it possible that they connect to our orchestrator through our environment ( virtual machine ) but to consume one of their licence ? Do I understand correctly ? And if yes, how to proceed ? Thanks for your help.

[Jon_Smith]

This is not possible.

Your licences are fixed to your orchestrator, you cannot have a ‘floating’ licence that lets you connect to multiple organizations using a single developer licence.

Its also likely if you are working with UiPath partners that the licences they have are what are called NFR licences (Not For Resale), this means UiPath provide them with licences for demonstrating the product in sales pitches and to ensure their staff are properly educated and can stay up to date with the latest features, its explictly disallowed to use it for commerical work for resale such as building an automation for a customer so they can avoid getting a developer licence.