Managing User Access for Mend Advise

Overview

You can manage access to any Mend Advise IDE integration through the use of a Mend license key. This key can be generated either by a Mend Admin via the Mend Application, or alternatively, by developers themselves if they have access to the Mend Application.

Generating License Keys

Generating a Global License Key

As a Mend admin, you can generate a license key that can be used by all your organization's developers in order to activate their Mend Advise installation.

Do as follows:

1. Go to the Mend application, and in Integrate > Mend for Developers > Advise for IDE, click Generate License Key.

2. Copy the license key and share it with your organization's relevant developers.

Enforcing Personal License Keys

As a Mend admin, you can enforce the use of personal (individually-used) license keys. However, this should only be enforced if all of your organization's developers have access to the Mend application.

Do as follows:

1. Go to the Mend application, and select Integrate > Mend for Developers > Advise for IDE.

2. Click the Enforce user level activation button. The Are you sure? popup is displayed.
   NOTE: This action is irreversible - the global license key will be disabled when clicking Yes.

3. Click Yes.

Once activated, this configuration will be denoted by the “User level activation is enforced” message in the UI, and the option to generate a global license key will no longer be available.

At this point, every user can generate a personal key for Mend Advise by following these steps:

1. Log into the Legacy SCA application

2. Navigate to your profile

3. Scroll to the “Mend Advise - IDE Integration” section

4. Select the relevant organization

5. Generate a Personal License Key

You can copy the key to the clipboard using the button on the right, to be used in Mend Advise.