User Guide

10 Novell Licensing Services Administration Guide
Novell Licensing Services Administration Guide
103-000138-001
August 30, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
An license service provider provides the actual licensing service. It
handles requests from NLS clients and maintains the license certificates,
which are stored within eDirectory.
When you install NetWare and licensing certificates, NLS
Installs the license service provider software on the server
Creates an License Service Provider object (NLS_LSP_servername)
in the eDirectory tree
You can also use NetWare Deployment Manager to accomplish these two
tasks.
IMPORTANT: You must have an license service provider running on a server with
a writable replica of each partition. This requirement applies to partitions that
contain—or will contain—License Certificate objects. If a partition does not—or will
not—contain a license certificate, that partition does not require a server running
an license service provider.
The replica can be a master or read/write replica. You can run license service
providers on other servers without replicas as long as they can communicate with
the license service provider that has a writable replica. The server with the writable
replica can make changes to the eDirectory database on the other server's behalf.
NLS_LSP_servername—An object in eDirectory.
This object’s existence in the tree is one indication that NLS is configured
to run on a server and that a server is a license service provider.
Both the NetWare server installation software and NetWare Deployment
Manager install the license service provider software on the server and
create a corresponding License Service Provider object
(NLS_LSP_servername) in the eDirectory tree.
License service provider objects are created in the same context as the
server running the license service provider software (NLSLSP.NLM).
The License Service Provider object stores configuration information
about an license service provider running on the server: a transaction
database name, information about how to search for a license certificate
(whether to search to the partition root or to the root of the tree),
notifications concerning unlicensed access and service problems, and
other associated data.
NLS adds an attribute on the NCP Server object. This attribute points to
the license service provider so that NLS has a link between the NCP
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Server object and the license service provider.