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The QNX Software Center (QSC) enables you to create and manage installations of the QNX Software Development Platform (SDP) and related products.
myQNX License Manager and QNX Software Center User's Guide
This guide explains how to use the myQNX License Manager and the QNX Software Center. It is intended for corporate buyers, development managers, and IT administrators who need to manage QNX product licenses, and for developers who need to install and maintain QNX software on their development hosts.
Using the myQNX License Manager
The myQNX License Manager lets you take centralized control of the QNX licensing for your organization. It reduces the hard work of managing licenses for large software teams to a few simple tasks that you can perform from a single, easy-to-use control panel:
Monitor product activations and support plans
You can view the activation history of any product, including when it was deployed, activated, deactivated, or revoked. You can also keep tabs on the renewal dates for all of your product support plans.

QNX Software Center
The QNX Software Center (QSC) enables you to create and manage installations of the QNX Software Development Platform (SDP) and related products.
- myQNX License Manager and QNX Software Center User's Guide
  This guide explains how to use the myQNX License Manager and the QNX Software Center. It is intended for corporate buyers, development managers, and IT administrators who need to manage QNX product licenses, and for developers who need to install and maintain QNX software on their development hosts.
  - Introduction
    Together, the myQNX License Manager and the QNX Software Center make it easy to license, download, install, and maintain QNX software products. It doesn’t matter whether your company is a small development shop with a handful of developers or a large OEM with globally distributed software teams. Either way, these tools will maximize the efficiency of your license administrators and enable all of your developers to stay up to date with the latest QNX software tools and components.
  - Create Your myQNX Account
    To use the myQNX License Manager or the QNX Software Center, you must first create a myQNX account. Setup is easy and takes only a few minutes.
  - Important Terms and Definitions
    This section covers important definitions that can help you better understand how to use QNX licenses.
  - Using the myQNX License Manager
    The myQNX License Manager lets you take centralized control of the QNX licensing for your organization. It reduces the hard work of managing licenses for large software teams to a few simple tasks that you can perform from a single, easy-to-use control panel:
    - Accept licenses
      The myQNX License Manager enables a flexible approach to license management by allowing you to easily view licenses and accept them.
    - Allocate licenses to administrators
      The myQNX License Manager enables a flexible approach to license management by supporting up to 20 administrators for each product serial number. For instance, administrators A, B, and C can manage product 1; administrators A, E, and F can manage product 2; administrators A, D, and G can manage product 3, and so on.
    - Deploy licenses to users
      The task of deploying licenses takes only a few simple steps, even when you are deploying multiple licenses all at once.
    - Deploy licenses offline
      If you need to deploy or allocate licenses to many users or administrators, you can use the Export feature to specify the deployments offline, in an easy-to-use spreadsheet. You can then use the Import feature to apply all of the deployments at once, with just a few mouse clicks. The deployments take effect only when you import them.
    - Access multiple versions of a product
      The myQNX License Manager has a product collection feature that enables users to access multiple versions of certain products.
    - Monitor product activations and support plans
      You can view the activation history of any product, including when it was deployed, activated, deactivated, or revoked. You can also keep tabs on the renewal dates for all of your product support plans.
    - Revoke products
      When you revoke a user’s license for a QNX product, the user loses their entitlement to use the product, and the myQNX server removes the product from the list of registered products in the user’s myQNX account.
    - Deactivate products governed by a named user license
      If a product is governed by a named user license, the user may, in some circumstances, need to deactivate it. For instance, the user must perform deactivation when upgrading to a new workstation or when the license administrator needs to transfer the license to another user.
    - Transfer a named user license from one user to another
      Transferring a named user license consists of a few simple steps.
    - Use live search to locate items
      Speed up item searches by using the Search field of the myQNX License Manager. As you type, the table of products or support plans will dynamically refresh to display any records that match your query.
    - Understand development licensing
  - Using the QNX Software Center
    The QNX Software Center provides a secure, efficient way to discover, install, and manage software products distributed by QNX. It replaces traditional command-line procedures with a graphical user interface that takes the guesswork out of managing product dependencies. It also lets you create patch sets: specific configurations of QNX products, patches, and updates that enable development teams to reproduce issues and standardize on the same software base.
  - QNX Software Center Advanced Topics
    This chapter guides you through tasks that you may have to perform only on occasion. It also discusses how to address potential connectivity or license activation issues.
  - Using the QNX Software Center Command Line
    The qnxsoftwarecenter_clt script lets you run the QNX Software Center from the command line. The script uses the same infrastructure as the QNX Software Center’s GUI.
  - Manifest Reports & File Lookup
    Using the QNX Software Center, you can create manifest reports for any QNX Software Development Platform (SDP) installation, or for any QNX target image that resides on your target hardware or development host.
  - Glossary
    To make best use of the QNX Software Center, we recommend that you become familiar with the following terms, which are used throughout the center's user interface and documentation.
- Creating and Deploying Installations of QNX SDP in Large Organizations
  This guide is intended for system administrators and developers who need to perform unattended installation of the QNX Software Center and the QNX Software Development Platform (SDP), or who need to create deployed installations of QNX SDP.
- QNX Software Center Technotes
  These technotes explain how to work around many issues with using the QNX Software Center.
- Typographical Conventions, Support, and Licensing
  This section describes the typographical conventions used throughout the documentation and explains how to obtain technical support.

Monitor product activations and support plans

You can view the activation history of any product, including when it was deployed, activated, deactivated, or revoked. You can also keep tabs on the renewal dates for all of your product support plans.

Product activations

To monitor which products have been activated:


For:	Do this:
Named user products	Look at the Status field. If the status has moved from Deployed to Activated, the user has installed the product through the QNX Software Center.
Multiuser products	Look at the Users field. It displays the number of deployed users (in gray) and activations (in orange).

To view the activation history of a product:

Click on the product's serial number.
Scroll down to the History Log section and select one of the following options:


Select:	To:
List View	View a history log for the product, sorted by date.
Timeline View	View an interactive timeline of the product's history. You can: Change the date range of the timeline by using the Show Now, Default, +, -, <, and > controls. Use the scroll wheel on your mouse to zoom in or out of the timeline. Just hover over the timeline and turn the wheel. View information about any event by clicking the circle that represents the event.

Support plans

To monitor support plans:

Look at the Available Actions column—shows you at a glance when the support plan for any product needs renewal. You can click the column title to sort products by their renewal dates.
Select the Support Plans tab—displays all of your support plans, which you can sort according to plan type, plan number, serial number, and renewal date.

Page updated: February 04, 2025