How to activate your license for Test Data Manager and its capabilities

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Online activation

The command line capabilities each have an auth  command which can be used to perform online activation of a license.

In order to do so you need to have been allocated a license in your Redgate account page.

Then you can run the auth command making sure to agree to the EULA by passing the --agree-to-eula  flag and log in on the page this opens in your browser.

Here's an example command-line to run the auth command for the data generator:

./datagenerator.exe auth --agree-to-eula

This login will be cached locally for a day, when you then run any other command for that capability it will be able to request a license using this login.

Adding an offline permit

Licensing the UI, or the command lines where the online activation is not possible can be done with an offline permit.

In order to do so you need to have been allocated a license in your Redgate account page.

Then you should visit the licensing portal page for Test Data Manager where you will be asked to agree to the EULA and then be presented with your permit.

The contents of this permit should be placed in one of two locations:

1. In a file accessible to the required capabilities. The environment variable REDGATE_LICENSING_PERMIT_PATH then needs to have the full path to the file (recommended)
2. Directly in the environment variable REDGATE_LICENSING_PERMIT (be aware this may be truncated depending on how many products you have licenses for)