### Managing Key Administrator Plug-Ins

To use the Parallels Key Administrator services, please, contact your vendor and complete a client agreement to get the Parallels Key Administrator client login. Using this login, you can log in to the Parallels Key Administrator GUI and manage your licenses and this login is also used to set up the Key Administrator plug-in that allows requesting licenses online.

Note: There can be different Parallels Key Administrator client logins that allow issuing licenses of different classes. If you have different client logins and if you want to sell different license classes using the Parallels Business Automation - Standard tools, then you should configure several KA plug-in configurations.

The KA plug-in can be configured both for online licenses issuing and manual licenses upload. You can configure a number of KA plug-ins. However, to sell licenses, it is required to configure at least one plug-in, because configuring a KA plug-in is the only way to define the set of license classes you will sell.

Immediately after a KA plug-in configuration is saved, Parallels Business Automation - Standard starts executing a special task that fetches the list of license classes. Only after the list of license classes is fetched a KA plug-in is considered as configured and gets a 'Configured' status, i.e., ready for use.

The list of license classes is available for every KA plug-in below the License Classes and Properties tab.

For offline KA plug-in configurations the list of license classes is taken from the Parallels Business Automation - Standard database and thus, it is the same for any offline KA plug-in configuration. This list of license classes includes the full set of license types the Parallels KA provides, so after the list of license classes is fetched, it is necessary to do a post-configuration and select the license classes to sell in accordance with the client agreement completed with Parallels Key Administrator.

For online KA plug-in configurations the list of license classes is requested online directly from the KA server and since a client requisites are passed to KA, the returned list of license classes corresponds to a client permissions stated in a client agreement. Thus, for online KA plug-ins additional check and post-configuration of the license classes list is possible but not necessary.

To add a new KA plug-in configuration, click the New plug-in button.

The list of KA plug-ins displays the following:

- ID. A numerical identifier assigned to a KA plug-in configuration in the Parallels Business Automation - Standard database.
- Plug-in name. The KA plug-in configuration name assigned in Parallels Business Automation - Standard. A pug-in is referred
- Configured. This column shows whether a KA plug-in is ready for use or not:
  - - A plug-in is ready for use, all the necessary data is entered and saved, the list of license classes is fetched.
  - - A plug-in is not ready for use. Either some data is missing in a plug-in configuration, or (for online plug-is) no connection with KA server, or the list of license classes is not fetched.

In This Section Configuring Key Administrator Plug-In

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