Audience
This guide is intended to help the person charged with installing
and activating The MathWorks™ products. The MathWorks calls this
person the Administrator contact on the license. When you purchase
products, the MathWorks automatically creates a MathWorks Account
for the Administrator contact on the license and associates the license
with the account.
The Administrator contact on a license does not necessarily
have to be a system administrator. The Administrator contact can be
an engineer or scientist who purchased the software for personal use.
At larger sites, the Administrator can be an actual system administrator
who sets up The MathWorks products in network configurations.
In addition to the Administrator contact, The MathWorks also
defines other contact roles on a license that can provide flexibility
in administering installations. For example, each license can have
a Licensed End-user contact. This can be useful when the person administering
the license is not going to be a user of the software. By assigning
the Licensed End-user role, the Administrator can delegate certain
administrative tasks to these end users. Likewise, a license can have
one or more Asset Manager contacts. The Asset Manager has the same
privileges as the Administrator contact and can serve as a back-up
administrator. At large sites, the Asset Manager might administer
the site-wide license and let Administrator contacts perform the day-to-day
administration of departmental licenses. This documentation is aimed
at the Administrator contact, except where other contacts are explicitly
named.
Related Documentation
This guide provides a high-level view of installing and activating
each license option. For more detailed information about installing
and activating, see the installation guide for your platform, listed
in the following table.
| Platform | Installation
Guide |
|---|
| Windows® | Installation Guide for Windows |
| UNIX® or Linux® | Installation Guide for UNIX |
| Macintosh® | Installation Guide for Macintosh |
Back to Top
 | Licensing Overview | | License Options |  |
Includes the most popular MATLAB recorded presentations with Q&A sessions led by MATLAB experts.
Get the Interactive Kit
Store 
