Managing license and tokens

License and tokens

The License Enabling File (LEF) determines the number of tokens available for a Qlik Sense site. You must activate the Qlik Sense site license to get the tokens. Allocate the tokens to the different access types to give the users access to the hub and apps.

When you allocate tokens, the number of available tokens is reduced. Each access type costs a certain number of tokens and if the token balance is zero or insufficient you cannot allocate to the access types. You can free up tokens and choose to use the tokens differently. The number of tokens for the Qlik Sense site can be increased or decreased by activating a new license.

User access

You allocate user access to an identified user to allow the user to access the streams and the apps within a Qlik Sense site. There is a direct relationship between the access type (user access) and the user. If you deallocate user access from a user, the access type is put in quarantine if it has been used within the last seven days. If it has not been used within the last seven days, the user access is removed and the tokens are released immediately. You can reinstate quarantined user access, to the same user, within seven days. Then the user is given access again without using more tokens.

Login access

One token equals a predefined amount of login access passes. The login access allows a user to access streams and apps for a predefined amount of time. This means that a single user may use several login access passes within a day. You create security rules specifying which users the login access is available for.

When you delete a login access (group), tokens are released immediately if the login access contains enough unused login access passes. The number of tokens that are released is dependent on the number of used login access passes. Used login access passes are not released until 28 days after last use. For example: If you allocated tokens giving 1000 login access passes to a group, they cannot use more than 1000 login access passes over 28 days. Also, if 100 login access passes are consumed on day 1, the 100 are available again on day 29. If no access passes are in use then all tokens assigned to the login access instance will be released when it is deleted.