My organization bought 2 KSE and 2 KRE floating licenses. We successfully installed KSE licenses on local machines but we having issues installing floating KRE license. When I try to run Test suites through CMD line from my local machine where I have KSE license installed, I’m getting following error: Trial license is only available for Katalon accounts registered with a business email. Online activation for console mode failed. Activation failed. Please make sure you are using a valid license. All launchers terminated
Does anyone know or have any kind of information on how to Install floating KRE license? Can I install floating KRE license on my local machine with existed KSE license or floating KRE is only for DevOps, Azure and Docker.
Do I need node KRE license instead? I would appreciate any feedback on this post. Thank you
Seems you moved in a day ago just to say you’re moving out?
The site statistics suggest otherwise.
The thing that people bemoaning the licensing model don’t seem to understand is that KRE being free was rife for abuse. Used by large enterprises with potentially many hosting environments and myriad targets means that KMS were funding profit-making companies without ANY benefit to themselves.
If you think that makes good business sense I’d question your abilities as a testing engineer.
Designing, building and producing a prime testing tool is neither cheap or free.
Testing commercial software with a prime testing tool is not a charitable give-away.
In addtion to previous asnwers … yes, there are plenty (alternatives)
As for the frustration regarding the licensing schema … well.I was frustrated too. Buut, an true qa engineer may distinguish between an close-source project (as katalon always was, with few components beying opensourced later) and an opensourced (and potentially free) tool from the roots
Ive been using Katalon for two years, I literally just joined the community with this mail, it doesn’t mean that I don’t have another one.
I am not expecting that you work for free, it’s not fair.
Also it’s not fair force move on version 7 blocking the activation for previous releases.
Deprecated software means not support or evolutions anymore, you are killing the previous and free versions to force everyone to pay. Now I only have two options, move out or negotiated with kinnapers. For the first option I can estimate time and effort, for the second option I don’t know if in short-term there is new conditions.
Honestly guys, you did a really good job with Katalon, everyone knows soon or later the license system will come but not in this way. It’s the annoying part of this situation.
According to devs, at this moment it is failing for new accounts, for old accounts should still work.
After April, all activation of 6.x will stop … so yeah, the docker image will be unusable if the API key is used at runtime (for grabbing plugins). If API key is not used, it may still work … provided you have a local copy of the image (chances are that old images to be discarded from repo)
come one guys, this is really not a great way of attracting new clients!!!
the activation also now does not work when sing 6x???
when was this communicated?
Unfortunately that move disappointed me too. When I started using Katalon I was in charge of automating a simple user task involving a web application. I choose between Selenium and Katalon and now I am greetly regretting that choice. I developed a single test case that performed that automation. The automation would be running once every three months. I cannot justify the Katalon license cost for such a task. I spent a few days developing that automation and now I have to redo everything from scratch. And that’s a cost on me. I think that good job should be paid and I wouldn’t question a decision to charge for Katalon new features. On the other hand, I think that one should keep a promise. Katalon should release older version to open source, remove the need of activation and allow re-installation in case of need in order to keep their word.
I embedded the test case in a script that perform a few things and then launch katalon.exe from command line
I need to move the script to a new server
By the way, while previous versions will sunset at the end of April, today is not possible to activate a new installation (that may buy me some time) of older versions because they dismissed the activation server (sigh!). I insist that they should keep their word and keep older versions available at the past terms. That implies removing the activation block from older versions. I hope that they will take a second thought and not let me and more others people disappointed.
You’re recommended to read this announcement regarding the consolidation of both Katalon Runtime Engine DevOps and Floating licenses into one licensing offering, Floating .