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What is happening to existing KLM license keys?

In August 2017, the new Knox Platform for Enterprise (KPE) license replaced both the:

  • Enterprise License Management (ELM) license: This license grants apps the permissions to call APIs for free Knox features. ELM keys will undergo an End-of-Service, as described in When is the ELM license service terminated? and must be replaced, as described in What should I do if I want to service my app which uses an ELM license? by December 2021.
  • Knox License Management (KLM) license: This license grants apps the permissions to call APIs for paid Knox features. KLM keys will continue to work indefinitely; however, you can no longer get new license keys. To increase the number of paid activations on your existing KLM license, you must contact Samsung directly and cannot go through a Knox License reseller.

We highly recommend you to switch to the new KPE Premium license key, which offers greater flexibility in terms of:

Assuming that you have not hardcoded the KLM key into your app, you should not need to modify your app code. You just need to update your key values, for example, on a back-end web server or cloud storage service. Replace the:

For more detail, see About licenses, Get a license, Activate a license, and Declare permissions. See also: What should I do if I want to service my app which uses an ELM license?