Orbit Online License Activation

Licenses for all Orbit products are based on the number of concurrent uses. Any Orbit product must be validated via a License Activation Key.
Orbit manages all licenses and its concurrent uses via the central Orbit Online License Service. Outbound connectivity to the License Service https://activation.orbitgt.com/service on port 443 is required.

Depending the product type, a slightly different validation check is applied.

From version 11.2, released November 2015.

Orbit Desktop Standalone products will connect to Orbit Online License Service every time you start and stop the application. By closing the application properly, the license use will be released immediately allowing you or any co-worker to start Orbit right away on a different machine using the same license.

Online connectivity is required to start the application and to release your license use at closing the application.
If you successfully started the application the license use will be valid for 1 hour. When your license lease is about to expire the application will reconnect automatically to the online license service to extend its license lease lifetime with another hour.

After 3 failed attempts to automatically extend a valid license lease the application shutdown timer will be displayed. Once you confirm acknowledge, the application will be blocked by the License Manager window in 5 minutes. This give you enough time to save your work or to re-validate your license manually.

In case (1) the application is not closed properly or (2) no successful connection to the online license service could be established when stopping the application, your license use will be released once its license lease lifetime expires.

If the Orbit desktop can't be started due to an invalid license the License Manager Window will pop up displaying reason of activation failure and how to solve the issue, see License Manager Window.

From version 1.0, released late nineties.

Orbit Desktop Clients will connect to their Orbit Server, see below, every time you start and stop the application. No online connectivity is required.
By closing the application properly, the license use will be released immediately allowing you or any co-worker to start Orbit right away on a different machine using the same license.

If you successfully started the application the license use will be valid for 30 minutes. When your license lease is about to expire the application will reconnect automatically to its Orbit Server to extend its license lease lifetime with another 30 minutes.

After 2 failed attempts to automatically extend a valid license lease the application shutdown timer will be displayed. Once you confirm acknowledge, the application will be closed in 5 minutes. This give you enough time to save your work locally.

In case (1) the client isn't closed properly or (2) no successful connection to the Orbit Server could be established when stopping the application, your license use will be released once its license lease lifetime expires.

From version 11.2, released November 2015.

An Orbit Server operates the same as the above described Orbit Desktop Standalone, differences :

• The license lease lifetime is 24 hours.
• No acknowledge and shutdown timer can be used. If the license lease expires the Orbit Server license will become invalid.

Orbit Servers will connect the Orbit Online License Service every time you start and stop the Orbit EOS Service correctly, see Orbit Enterprise Service.
A valid Orbit Server is able to activate a well defined number of concurrent Orbit Desktop Clients. The Orbit Server will not connect to the Online License Service to validate a connecting Orbit Desktop Client.

From version 11.2, released November 2015.

An Orbit Publisher operates the same as the above described Orbit Server.

From version 11.0

The Orbit WebClient API integrated by any Plugin will connect to the Orbit Online License Service every time you load the Orbit WebClient. If you successfully started the application the license use is valid and assigned to the requested seat for 24 hours. Your license use will be released once its license lease lifetime expires.

Note your license use is assigned for 24 hours to the requested seat. Cleaning your cache or cookies may remove your Activation Key. Restarting your plugin afterwards will initiate an additional concurrent license use.

A successful product activation will validate product use for a well defined period, so called “license lease lifetime”. Depending the product type, see above, a different license lease lifetime may be applicable. By closing the application properly, the license use will be released immediately allowing you or any co-worker to start Orbit right away on a different machine using the same license (exception for use of the Orbit WebClient API, see above).

Companies having an Orbit Server product are able to manage their licenses and license leases via the http://my.orbitgt.com portal.
Via this portal the company administrator can manually end a license lease if the application is stopped but the end of license use is not communicated successfully to the Orbit Online License Service. Any abuse will be reported as license validation.

Access to your my.orbitgt.com portal can be requested via sales at orbitgt dot com.