Trust Lifecycle Manager licenses
DigiCert® Trust Lifecycle Manager operates on a subscription licensing model, offering a range of seat types corresponding to different activities within your account. Understanding these licenses and their limits is essential for managing your account effectively.
Seat types
The following table describes the seat types that Trust Lifecycle Manager offers as part of its subscription licensing model. Each seat type represents a license for a specific certificate use case.
Seat type | Description |
|---|---|
User | A public or private trust certificate issued to a person, for use cases including authentication to a private network (VPN) or website, wireless access, or signing/encrypting emails. |
Device | A private trust certificate issued by DigiCert Private CA to a physical device (such as a laptop, computer, or mobile device), typically for authentication or encryption. |
Server | A private trust certificate issued by DigiCert Private CA to an organization’s internal servers (including web servers, proxy servers, load balancers, domain controllers, or wireless access points) for client or mutual authentication with users, devices, or other servers. |
Organization | A private trust certificate issued by DigiCert Private CA and used to create private external issuing CAs capable of issuing end-entity SSL certificates on-demand (typically used for TLS inspection) or used as a private code signing certificate. |
Imported | A public or private trust certificate issued by an external CA that was uploaded into Trust Lifecycle Manager, and which also had its issuing CA imported into DigiCert® Private CA. |
Discovery | A public or private trust certificate that was discovered and added to your account. |
Certificate management | A public or private trust certificate issued by an external CA that was generated and/or is being managed in Trust Lifecycle Manager through a CA connector. |
Note
For more details about these seat types, refer to the Seat types section of the Trust Lifecycle Manager user guide.
Seat usage limits (platform-level)
Seat usage limits at the platform level depend on your DigiCert® ONE deployment type:
DigiCert-hosted: Seat usage has a soft limit. You can exceed your initial platform license allocation. You only pay for what you use.
Customer-hosted: Seat usage has a hard limit. You cannot exceed the number of seats defined in your platform license agreement.