What is a licence estate?
Your licence estate is the account that holds:
your customer details
a list of all licences purchased
who else you've invited to to manage your estate
a list of all licensing pools
What is a licence pool?
A licence pool is where you manage the day-to-day usage of your licences by encoders. We create one for you automatically (Default Pool), but for more complex licence management, you can create your own and divide your licences into different pools based on your specific use case.
The Default Pool
When your estate is created, it will have one initial pool called Default Pool - this is where all new licences will appear automatically when your licence purchase is added to the Central Licensing Server (CLS).
Then, as part of setting up a new server, you will authenticate the server using an authentication code from your licensing pool - this will link the two together, and attached encoders will be able to request a licence from your pool. Clicking on your pool in CLS will list all attached servers and their licence usage:
