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Altium

What is Altium?

As one of the premier providers of EDA software for designing printed circuit boards (PCBs), Altium have their own proprietary license manager for on-premises sites. It is a 2-tier licensing system, consisting of a license for the server, which controls a pool of user licenses. When the maximum number of concurrent users are reached, users will be denied until a license is freed up.

OpenLM provides the following functionality for monitoring Altium licenses:

CapabilitySupport
Denials reportingYes
Report resolutionPer minute
Borrowed license reportingNo
Expiration date reportingYes
Multiple server redundancy supportOne backup
Token license supportNo
Altium is only one of over 90 license managers that OpenLM can manage.

What is Altium 365?

Altium 365 is Altium’s cloud offering currently (August 2019) in beta test mode, and available to registered users of Altium.