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cPanelLicensing Perl Module

Last modified: 2026 July 8

Overview

The cPanelLicensing Perl module runs Manage2 API functions. Use the cPanelLicensing Perl module to manage customer licenses from the command line or through the Manage2 user interface.

Important:

You must run this module on a *nix-based system.

Requirements

To install this module, the following features must be available on the server:

  • Perl 5.6.2 or later.
  • OpenSSL and its development libraries.

In addition, one of the following following Perl modules must exist on the server:

  • XML::Simple
  • JSON::Syck
  • YAML::Syck
  • YAML
  • JSON
  • JSON::XS

Download the module

To download the cPanelLicensing Perl module, click the cPanel License Management API SDK link in the Automation menu on the Manage2 Dashboard interface.

Basic use

When a script uses this module, the script must create an instance of the module with the following parameters:

  • user — The account username.
  • pass — The account password.

For example, the following code creates the initial instance of the cPanelLicensing Perl module:

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use cPanelLicensing;
my $licenseManager =  cPanelLicensing->new(
     user => '$USERNAME',
     pass => '$PASSWORD'
);

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