How to Activate or Update a License#

This topic provides step-by-step instructions for activating or updating a TheHive license, whether it’s a Community, Gold, or Platinum license.

Platinum trial

5.3 Installing TheHive On-prem or using TheHive Cloud Platform for the first time includes a 14-day Platinum trial license. After this trial period, TheHive transitions to read-only mode, requiring a valid license for all users for continued full functionality.

Requirements

For Community license: This procedure assumes that you have already obtained a Community license by following the Request a Community License topic.
For Gold and Platinum licenses: This procedure assumes that you have already purchased a valid Gold or Platinum license and no longer wish or are able to use your trial license.

Required permissions

Only users with an admin-type profile that has the managePlatform permission can activate or update a license in TheHive.

Step 1: Retrieve the challenge from your TheHive instance#

Go to the Platform management view from the sidebar menu.
Select the License tab.
Select Update the current license
In the Set a license key drawer, select Copy this challenge.

Step 2: Generate your license key#

Log in to the StrangeBee license portal.
Select the Licenses tab.
Select Activate or View details for your product.
Paste the challenge into the License key activation challenge field.
Select Activate license.
Select Copy the key to clipboard.

Step 3: Activate your license in TheHive#

Go back to your TheHive instance with the Set a license key drawer open.
Paste the generated license into the License field.
Select Activate the license key.

How to Activate or Update a License#

Step 1: Retrieve the challenge from your TheHive instance#

Step 2: Generate your license key#

Step 3: Activate your license in TheHive#

Next steps