User Guide

Understanding Novell Licensing Services 17
Novell Licensing Services Administration Guide
103-000138-001
August 30, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
Example 3: Metering
A client workstation requests an application that is not NLS-enabled.
ZENworks, integrated with NLS, requests a license unit on behalf of the
application.
Depending on the response from NLS, Application Launcher in ZENworks
chooses whether or not to load the application. Therefore, Application
Launcher can be configured to request license units for applications that are
not NLS-aware.
How NLS Works
The following figure illustrates how NLS Works.
The following list describes how License Service Providers (license service
providers) handle requests from NLS clients by interacting with the
eDirectory database.
1. An application issues a request to the NLS client.
In NetWare, for example, the server requests a license unit on behalf of
the user that is connecting to the server. The server issues this request to
the NLS client.
2. The NLS client library packages the request from the application and
submits it to an license service provider.
License Service
Provider
The LSP searches the eDirectory
tree for a License Container
object with available licenses.
2
The LSP checks out a license
from a License Container object
for software to use.
3
The LSP indicates license
availability.
4
Licensing-enabled software
requests a license.
1
License Container object
License Certificate