Mark felt a wave of relief. He didn't need to buy 43 licenses. He just needed to ensure he never ran more than 25 scans simultaneously. He could schedule them overnight, staggering the legacy apps.
But two weeks later, a junior dev, Sarah, triggered an urgent scan on a new feature without checking the queue. Simultaneously, Mark's nightly CI/CD pipeline spun up five scans. The license server rejected the sixth. acunetix license
Furious, Mark dug into the Acunetix API logs. He realized the license enforcement was soft —it didn't stop you from adding targets, it just refused to launch new scans when the limit was hit. A race condition in their Jenkins script had assumed all scans would start. Mark felt a wave of relief
And Mark? He set a calendar reminder for the first week of the quarter, not the last. License hell became just another Tuesday. He could schedule them overnight, staggering the legacy apps
Twenty-five. He now had forty-three public-facing apps, plus internal dev tools.