How to identify host names for registered business edition

[ccarcit]

I am migrating servers and I want to transfer business edition licenses. However, I can't tell, from this screen showing the number of licenses in use, what hosts still have the client installed.

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Thanks in advance.

[Plerry]

The only possibility I presently see is to check the installed version of FFS
For the Z820s, one has v13.7 the other v14.2 .
For the Z620s, one has v13.9, one has v14.0, 5 have v14.2, one has v14.4 and one has v14.5.
On each machine you can see the installed FFS version in the FFS GUI via
Help / About .

But I agree that this system of machine identification/recognition could/should be improved, particularly for multi-licence Business usage.

[ccarcit]

Sure, this is one way to do it, and I can view the version through my RMM, but it's not at all helpful.

I ASSUMED that once I uninstalled from a couple decommissioned machines, the licenses would have freed up. That is not the case. Maybe after a reboot the license portal will update?

[Plerry]

Not sure what happens if you remove a client machine from the list.
If you accidentally removed a machine on which you still want to run FFS, I expect that the next time you run the installed FFS Business edition on that machine it will re-register to said list.

[ccarcit]

I see what you're getting at. Worth a try I suppose. Just wish I had more concrete details to work with.

[ccarcit]

I went ahead and used the delete function on 2 hosts. It doesn't remove those machines from the list, but rather keeps them on the list flagged as deleted and gives an option to restore. I was able to add a license from a new server at that point.

[Plerry]

Deletion from the list is not instantaneous, but can take up to 48 hours (at least for the donation edition)

[Zenju]

Hostname has been added to the list for the next version, FreeFileSync 14.7.