Specifications

Installing Network License Codes
SentinelLM System Administrator’s Guide 11
Installing a Redundant License Code
Note In addition to providing license server backup, redundant license servers
provide license balancing, which permits you to to spread the load of
license acquisition over multiple license servers. For example, suppose a
license code allows 15 concurrent users of the protected application. (Each
authorization to use the license is called a token. In this case, the license
code contains 15 tokens.) You can distribute the license tokens among the
license servers, perhaps allocating five tokens to each of three redundant
license servers. Part of installing a redundant license is specifying the token
distribution criteria.
There are several utilities you can use to install a redundant license (lslic, rlftool,
and Wrlftool). However, we recommend using lslic to add a redundant license
because you will not have to stop and restart the redundant license servers for the
change to take effect.
If you need the licenses to be added to a remote license server, set the
LSFORCEHOST environment variable on the computer on which you are using
lslic to the computer containing the redundant license server to which you want
to add the license code even if you are running lslic on the license server’s com-
puter.
Note You may only use lslic to add redundant licenses after all the redundant
license servers have been started with a redundant license file, lservrlf. For
information on setting up a redundant license server pool, see “Chapter 3 -
Setting up Redundant License Servers and License Balancing” on page 37.
To install the redundant license code, at the operating system command prompt
type:
lslic -Ad license-code dist-crit
where license-code is the string of characters given to you by your vendor, and
dist-crit is the distribution cirteria of how you would like the number of users for
that license distributed among the license servers. dist-crit takes the form:
server1:tokens1^server2:tokens2...