Eggplant DAI Licensing Overview
Before you purchase licenses for DAI, you need to decide what type of installation you want and how you want to create and run your tests. You can run the DAI Server as an on-premise, container deployment, or hosted cloud installation. You also need to know how many users will be creating tests, and how many tests you want to run unattended at the same time. Once you know the answers to these questions, you can purchase the appropriate DAI components and licenses.
Licensing DAI involves several steps:
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Determine the DAI components and licenses you need. See DAI Components, License Types, and How DAI Uses Licenses below for guidance with this decision.
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Select the bundle of components and licenses you need. See Choosing DAI License Bundles for bundle information.
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Purchase the components and licenses you need. See Ordering and Generating Licenses for information about ordering products through the Keysight Software Manager (KSM).
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Enter your licenses in DAI and start creating tests. See The DAI License Page for more information.
DAI Components
The following table summarizes the DAI components that you need to consider when you purchase licenses.
DAI Component | Subcomponents |
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The DAI Server | Available as an on-premise, container deployment, or Cloud hosted server. It serves the DAI web applications (web apps): Dashboards, Designer, Controller, and Insights. |
The DAI Execution Environment (also called "Environment") |
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If you use EPF floating team licenses, your environment will also include a Reprise License Manager (RLM) Server.
Systems under test (SUTs) are sometimes considered part of the execution environment. You can create SUT connections locally in EPF and DAI, or use Cloud SUTs in DAI. For more information about SUTs, see Managing SUTs in Eggplant DAI or Using Cloud SUT Execution in the DAI product documentation, or Connecting to SUTs in the EPF product documentation.
Example Licensing Scenario
Consider the following example DAI scenario. It shows a single, on-premise DAI Server, 4 Execution Environments in Run Mode, 3 in Design Mode, and an RLM License Server.
If DAI were running tests in these environments simultaneously, you would need the following licenses:
- 4 DAI execution licenses and 4 EPF execution licenses for the Run Mode environments
- 4 DAI developer licenses and 4 EPF developer licenses for the Design Mode environments.
Explanations of the license types and how DAI uses licenses follows.
The above example is just one of many configuration possibilities.