User Guide
32 Novell Licensing Services Administration Guide
Novell Licensing Services Administration Guide
103-000138-001
August 30, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
Place server license certificates so that NLS servers do not have to
traverse slow WAN links to access license units.
Place user certificates so that NLS dos Not have to traverse WAN links
when users are authenticating to the tree.
Place at least one License Service Provider object in a container near the
root of the tree. Also, consider loading license service provider software
on servers that many or most users log in to in the eDirectory tree. These
two actions distribute requests for license units.
Identify license certificates that many users throughout the eDirectory
tree will use. Place these license certificates in a context near the root of
the eDirectory tree.
Identify license certificates that a small group will use. Place these license
certificates in the same eDirectory context as those users' objects.
Identify license certificates that larger groups will use. Place these
certificates in the eDirectory context that represents the root-most context
for the group.
The system erroneously reports duplicate licenses
Problem: The system reports that duplicate licenses are installed in the
eDirectory tree.
Possible cause: In a using earlier versions of NLS, you installed a license
certificate, deleted it, and then reinstalled it elsewhere in the eDirectory tree.
When the earlier NLS dredge process walks the eDirectory tree and looks for
certificates, the dredge encounters the deleted certificate and considers it a
duplicate.
Solution: If that license certificate was the only certificate in the License
Container object, delete the License Container object where the certificate was
installed and deleted. (Don’t delete the License Container object if it contains
other license certificates.)
Solution: Deploy the current version of NLS by installing the NetWare 4
Support Pack 6a and NetWare 5 Support Pack 4 on you servers.