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Overview

Note: nTop products are desktop-based software applications. They rely on a cloud server for the limited purpose of authenticating users upon login and checking for available software updates.
During the course of product usage, the applications can also send personalized or anonymous data related to license utilization and feature usage based on the user’s preference. This does NOT include any design data and/or intellectual property (e.g., the nTop file and any local files that may be imported or exported, etc. reside entirely on the user’s local machine). nTop products do not rely on any other cloud component. This guide provides an overview of the best practices for managing the nTop Floating Licenses for the Org. Admins. You would have received our email that a Floating license was deployed for your organization. You can follow the step-by-step instructions in this article for managing those licenses by adding Users, adding Teams, and assigning users and licenses to Teams so that the users in a Team can get access to the floating licenses assigned to that Team. Note: If you would like the Floating license to be available to all the users in your organization, you don’t need to create Teams but assign the license to be used at the Organization level. All users added to the Organization automatically get access to the Floating licenses.

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User Dashboard

To start, you must navigate to app.ntop.com and go to your organization page, which can be found on the left-hand menu. The first tab is the Dashboard, which displays your organization’s metrics regarding Users, Teams, and Licenses. The organization dashboard on app.ntop.com.

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Managing Users

As an Org. Admin, you can invite new users to your organization. If there are users who already belong to your organization, they’ll automatically appear in the user table. You can add a new user to your organization by selecting the Add User button in the Userstab. The Add User button will open a modal window that’ll require you to input the following information:
  • Full Name
  • Email
  • Team (optional)
Once you add a user, you cannot change their email address. You can, however, change their Full Name, Team, and License. Below is an overview of the Add New User window: Selecting the Add User button will open a small window. Use this window to input the user's information.

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Managing Teams

As an Org. Admin, you can create teams to organize the users in your organization. You can also edit and delete teams. Teams can be used purely for organizing users, or you can use them to restrict license usage to specific users. To create a team, select the Add Team button in the Teams tab of your Org Admin Dashboard. A modal window will appear, allowing you to enter the new team name and select Create. If you need to change the name of a team, select the Edit icon next to the applicable team. This will activate the edit mode. Change the name of the target team and select Save. Below is an image of the Teamstab. On the Licenses tab, select the pencil icon next to a license to assign it to a team. This will open a secondary window where you can select the appropriate team. Select the “trash can” icon next to the applicable team name to delete a team. You will be prompted with a message that asks you to confirm the deletion. Deleting a team doesn’t delete users or licenses. If you delete a team that users are assigned to, the users’ team will default to **None.**Hit cancel to exit this mode. To add a user to a team, select the Edit icon in the row of the user table. You can choose a team from the Team drop-down menu from this modal window. You can also remove a user from their current team by clicking the red “x” next to the team drop-down box. Select Save when you are finished editing the user. Below is an image of the Edit User Details window when editing in theUser tab. On the Users tab, you can click the pencil icon next to a user to edit their user details. This menu will allow you to assign a user to a team.

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Managing Licenses

The Licenses tab shows an overview of your organization’s licenses. Below is an example of a License tab displaying different license options that nTop offers. The nTop Floating licenses will have the model Floating. You can filter them using the Model filter at the top of the table. The Licenses tab displays all of the active licenses in your organization. Select the edit button next to the applicable license to assign a Floating License to a group of users. This button opens a window that prompts you to assign the license to a team. You can choose to select a team from the drop-down menu. After making your selection, click the “Assign” button.

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Assigning Floating License to an Organization

Check the box “Assign to the organization’s level.” This allows any user you have added to your organization to use this floating license, regardless of their assigned team. After making your selection, click the “Assign” button. Select the pencil icon next to a floating license to assign it to a team.

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View Active Cloud Floating Sessions

You can view who has checked out the floating license by clicking on the End Sessions button; this will open up a modal with the User and Session information along with the End Session button for you to terminate the session and retrieve the Floating license. Selecting the arrow icon next to a floating license will open a secondary window. This window will show active sessions that the license is currently being used for, with the option to end the active sessions.
Note: You can also view these Active Cloud Floating Sessions on a user level in the Users tab.
The active cloud floating sessions window that can be used to view or close active sessions.

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License Organization Example

The following is an example of how assigning a license to a team works. In the image below, you can see that this organization has three separate teams. The Design team has no licenses available, the ML team has one user with a nTop Named-User License, and the Simulation Team has 1 Floating License and one nTop Automate Named-User License. The teams tab of an example organization. If we go to our licenses tab, we can see the following licenses available: The licenses tab of an example organization. From the Teams and Licenses tabs, we can conclude the following for how the users in the organization can use the licenses:
  • The FlexNet License is unassigned as it runs separately on FlexNet Servers.
  • Priya Mehta is the only user who has access to the nTop Automate Named-User license.
  • The first Floating License is available to the entire organization and has a concurrency of 3. This means that up to 3 users can be using it simultaneously.
  • The second Floating License is only available to the Simulation Team members and has a concurrency of 3. So three Simulation team members could have it checked out at the same time.
  • Christopher Scott is the only user who has access to the nTop Named-User License
If you still have questions, our support team will gladly help you.

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