Sorting out auto-detected license keys

TNI will automatically detect licensed installations of certain software along with the corresponding license keys. After switching to the Licenses mode, you may see the following item at the top of the main area:

Click the item to display all detected licensed installations in the Details panel, sorted by software title and keys. From here, you can quickly find the installations you are interested in and create licenses for them (or assign them to existing licenses) using the corresponding Action menus.

The program is also able to find Unidentified keys. These are detected license keys that TNI could not associate with a specific software item. A list of suggested software items for these keys is displayed in the software column. Using the Action menu, you can create a new license for the selected key, specify which software item it belongs to, or hide it. If you select the option to specify the software, a separate window will be opened in which you can assign a key to the desired software item.

If you activate the Automatically add keys detected during scanning to matching licenses option in Settings — Software Database, then all detected keys will be added to the expected software licenses automatically. Once this option is enabled, or after you manually assign the key to a software item, further license operations proceed normally.

If the same key is detected in several installations, the corresponding row may be expanded to display the list of computers:

Sometimes, identical license keys are found in installations of different software items. This may be an indicator that those items are different versions of the same software and should be merged. A special hint will appear: click it and all suspected software items will be selected and you’ll be prompted to merge them before creating a common license.

Clicking New license for this software opens the license creation window.

Hover over an unidentified key to display additional information in a tooltip. This data will help you decide on further actions with this key.