HCLSoftware continues to simplify its Domino licensing based on the Domino Complete Collaboration (CCB) model - a modern, per-user, licensing model comprised of: 

HCL Domino Complete Collaboration Business Edition (CCB) for the B2E and B2C users, 

HCL Domino Complete Collaboration eXternal User (CCX) for B2B users, 
HCL Domino Complete Collaboration Solution Partner Edition (CCS) for ISVs. 

CCB is the only license entitling customers to all of Domino's features, updates, and supporting programs. To realize all the benefits, HCL strongly recommends that customers move to CCB licensing and upgrade to Domino version 12.0.2 as soon as possible.  

CCB: Simplifying Domino Licensing

CCB is the cornerstone of our journey to provide a single, user based, license model for Domino, eliminating Processor Value Unit licensing, an old license metric no longer relevant in a modern Cloud / Kubernetes world:

• A simple “Per User everything model” - use any client and any protocol for any server capacity to run all applications – including enterprise e-mail.
• Transparent license compliance management by simple user counting.
• All new Domino capabilities are only included with CCB entitlements – e.g., from V12.0.2 Nomad for Web Browsers and Domino REST APIs.

CCB entitlements are needed for all of the employees and contractors in your enterprise needing access to your Domino CCB servers – covering all B2E (Business-to-Employees) scenarios. A server licensed under CCB also include unlimited external web user access as needed for most B2C (Business-to-Consumer/Citizen) scenarios:

• Guest: unlimited anonymous browser users can freely access your Domino based websites.
• Known Guest: unlimited registered users with credentials to login for read-only access to applications (see Known Guest Use Cases in this blog Licensing Update: Domino V12 and Key CCX Enhancement).

The volume of needed entitlements for a CCB configuration is the count of all credentials in Domino directories or any other authentication source used by the enterprise.

The CCB entitlement can be extended with Domino Leap – an add-on for all CCB users providing a true citizen developer capability (see also HCL Leap 9.3.2 and Domino Leap 1.1.1).  And the Sametime Premium secure meetings add-on for designated CCB users (see also Seamless, Flexible Collaboration Delivered with Sametime 12.0.1).

CCX: Dealing with external B2B or B2C users

For B2B (Business-to-Business) or advanced B2C scenarios, where the external users need to fully engage in applications beyond the read/only access permitted for Known Guests, HCL introduced the CCX entitlement as an add-on for CCB environments.

CCX users have full functionality to use Domino and Domino Leap (if installed) applications and workflows but cannot create applications themselves. CCX users do not have a personal mailbox but can use task/functional mail for workflow routing or applications generating mail.

Like the CCB Authorized User entitlement, the CCX Authorized User entitlement is also unique, however, can logically be reassigned after 30 days of inactivity.  Consequently, you need entitlements to cover actual/expected CCX users in any 30-day period. Hence, some former server only based B2B/B2C use cases can now be easily supported by CCX as sporadic application use does not accumulate a long range of user credentials which would require entitlement under CCB.  

See CCX Use Cases in Licensing Update: Domino V12 and Key CCX Enhancement.

All use cases supported with older Domino license models are supported by CCB/CCX, so moving to CCB from an older license will not require reinstallation of the currently deployed software components.  Then, when the environment is upgraded to V12.0.2 or later, all new V12 features can be deployed and exploited. E.g., HCL Nomad Web and Domino REST API.

What is the Domino License Analysis Utility (DLAU)

Following an adoption rate of over 70% for CCB licensing and with many more customers planning to move to CCB, we are making the Domino License Analysis Utility (DLAU) tool available to enable customers to perform a baseline count of the needed CCB/CCX entitlements for any Domino configuration and, at the same time, to perform a security “health check” on your Domino deployment.  

DLAU will assist you in determining the entitlements needed for CCB/CCX licensing of your complete Domino deployment and is a simple to deploy and use, non-intrusive tool:

• Delivered as a Notes application file (.nsf) to be run from a Notes client.
• Does not require any changes to the Domino servers (except ensuring appropriate logging is enabled).
• Does not modify any existing data.
• Runs in the background – will not “freeze” Notes.
• Results normally provided within a few hours (dependent on environment complexity).

DLAU only scans log files and configurations and generated reports are under control of the Administrator and are fully GDPR compliant.  DLAU also offers a range of observations and analysis and recommends best practices updates and any­ needed remedial actions. Most importantly, DLAU will report on Security Observations.

DLAU – along with a comprehensive Users’ Guide - is currently available to any Domino customer here ==> https://opensource.hcltechsw.com/domino-license-analysis-utility-DLAU/ 

DLAU will be included in the HCL License & Download portal over the coming months for availability along with Domino.

If you have any questions about this blog post and announcements or have any licensing questions, please contact your HCL product specialist or Business Partner.

Useful Links:

• HCLSoftware License Information Documents
• Learn about Domino Access Control Lists (ACL)
• https://opensource.hcltechsw.com/domino-license-analysis-utility-DLAU/

Related Blog Posts:

• Licensing Update: Domino V12 and Key CCX Enhancement
• HCL Leap 9.3.2 and Domino Leap 1.1.1
• Seamless, Flexible Collaboration Delivered with Sametime 12.0.1