Kemp 360 Central acts as the licensing server for pooled licensing and can issue individual LoadMaster licenses at capacities ranging from 50 Mbit to 10 Gbit. Issued licenses deplete the pool but can be recovered and added back into the pool at any time for re-issue. This provides flexibility to issue licenses on-demand for a range of use cases ranging from short-term projects such as testing through to long term licenses for customers or departments in the organization.

If you have a pooled license, you are allocated a specific amount of LoadMaster bandwidth and you can add or delete LoadMasters while staying within this limit. Each LoadMaster license has a defined bandwidth. The Kemp 360 Central User Interface (UI) displays how much of your license pool you are using out of your limit.

Note: If you have SMTP configured, you are notified by email if you exceed the allowed limit. This email is generated at midnight every day until the issue is fixed.

You can return a license to the license pool in Kemp 360 Central by going to the Actions column and clicking Recover License. This kills the device and returns the capacity to the license pool.

To access the LoadMaster Licensing section in Kemp 360 Central, click the Settings and Configuration icon then click LoadMaster Licensing.

Note: You can have a pooled license or a metered license but not both.

The information you obtain from running a report depends on whether you have a metered or pooled license.

The Pool Usage report displays the details that are displayed in the table in report format. However, you can filter on IP address or device name to make the report more specific. The report is downloaded as a .CSV file. The CSV file contains a history of all pooled device license actions for all devices.