Licensing, Updates & Maintenance

• Understanding your license and seats How SummitPSA licenses work, what a seat is, and how your install verifies its license with the license server.
• Entering or updating your license key Where to enter your SummitPSA license key during setup and how to refresh its status with Check now.
• Over-seat true-up explained What happens when your active agent count exceeds your seat limit, and how the over-seat grace window works.
• What happens if your license lapses What an expired, suspended, unrecognized, or unverifiable license means for your install and your data.
• Updating SummitPSA to a new version Update SummitPSA by swapping the Docker image tag; migrations run automatically on boot.
• Release notes and changelog Where SummitPSA releases are announced and how to tell which version your install is running.
• Rolling back an update How to safely revert SummitPSA to a previous version by downgrading the database before repinning the image.
• Backing up your database and files Back up SummitPSA with a mariadb-dump of the database plus a copy of your uploads directory.
• Restoring from a backup Restore SummitPSA by loading a mariadb-dump into the database and replacing the uploads directory.
• Routine maintenance A short routine for keeping a self-hosted SummitPSA install healthy: backups, updates, logs, and license status.