How to license Unidesk Enterprise Layer Manager

Learn about Unidesk licensing and Enterprise Layer Manager for Citrix App Layering. Follow this guide to optimize your Citrix environment.

Unidesk Licensing Prerequisites

In order to complete this procedure, you will need to be either licensed with an email account or have a license file.  You can the option to validate the license of the product by logging from the appliance to Unidesk which implies that Internet access is required.  But in situations where Internet connectivity is not possible, you may be able to utilize a license file.  In our demonstration, we are utilizing a 7-day trial with a provisioned file named license.xml.

This file is downloaded from the Unidesk site.

Unidesk appliance software download

It is expected that Citrix will utilize the Citrix Licensing Server as with other products, but not sure how license will work when the product is acquired on its own.

Unidesk Licensing Procedure

1.  You will be prompted for licensing during the initial login.  Please log in to the Unidesk Enterprise Layer Manager appliance IP.

Unidesk Licensing Procedure

2.  Check the “I accept the Terms and Conditions” of the license agreement and click Close.

Unidesk appliance configuration accept license agreement

3. Click on Manage License.

Unidesk appliance manage license

4. Browse to the location that the license.xml file was saved and select it.  Then click on the down arrow.  If you are have an account and internet access, then you can enter the credentials instead.

Unidesk appliance browse to license file

5.  Click on Finish.

Unidesk appliance confirum your license update

6. The following Welcome prompt will appear.  Click Close.  This will continue appearing until you complete these first three steps.

Unidesk appliance welcome dialog