Licensing & users

How Self-hosted licensing works

On the Self-hosted edition, Drovio Server is activated with electronic license files (.lic) that we provide to you. Licenses are floating: rather than being tied to a specific person, they are drawn from a pool and allocated to users, either manually or automatically (see users.license_allocation).

• Each license defines how many other users a holder can invite into a session (typically 1, 4 or 999, matching the licenses you acquired).
• Licenses are bound to the machine (hostname). When deploying in Docker, keep the --hostname you sent us, as licenses are generated against it.
• To obtain or adjust licenses, contact support@drovio.com.

Cloud licensing is different

On the Cloud (SaaS) edition there are no license files; entitlements are provisioned automatically from the customer's subscription. See Cloud overview.

Users wanting to share their screens through the app need to have an account on Drovio Server, and a valid license must be bound to a user account before they can use the app. Both users and licenses are managed from the administration panel.

Add or remove a user

To add a user, open the Users page and click Add a user. Enter an email address, a username (shown under their mouse cursor and in messages) and a password. They will sign in with this password. Their address will count as verified.

To remove a user, click their row to open their details, then Remove the user.

Add or remove a license

To add licenses, open the Licenses page and click Add licenses. Select the files Drovio sent you: their extension is .lic. A license valid for this server shows a check mark in the Status column.

To remove a license, click its row to open its details, then Remove the license. Clean licenses removes at once those that have expired, or whose host ID does not match this server.

Bind a license to a user

Open the Users page, then click the row of the user. Under License, choose a license to bind, then Bind. A user with a license can have it replaced with another one, or unbound.