Withdrawal of expired licenses

Advanced EDR does not maintain a strict connection between license contracts and computers. Computers with licenses assigned do not belong to a particular license contract. Instead, all licenses from all license contracts are added to a single pool of available licenses, which are then distributed among the computers on the network.

Whenever a license contract expires, the number of licenses assigned to that contract is determined and the computers with licenses assigned are arranged according to the Last connection field, which indicates the date the computer last connected to the Cytomic cloud.

Computers whose licenses may be withdrawn are those that have not been seen for the longest period of time. This establishes a system of priorities whereby it is more likely to withdraw a license from computers that have not been used recently.

This logic for withdrawing expired licenses affects all devices compatible with Advanced EDR and with licenses assigned.