Specifications

Configuring the License Server

Chapter 2 - Configuring the License Server

Step 9: License Server Releases License

When the license server receives the license authorization back, it makes it avail-

able again to another user.

Configuring the License Server

If your application is being used with a network license then your vendor will

provide you with a copy of the license server program and installation instruc-

tions. After you have installed the license server, you can then configure the

license server options. If you are running the license server on several computers

you need to complete this procedure separately for each computer.

If a copy of the license server has already been installed, perhaps for an earlier

version of software or for a different application, then you only need to install a

license server if your vendor provided you with a newer version. The way you

determine the version number of the license server depends on the license server

platform. For Windows 95/98, run the license server in foreground mode and

select the About command on the Help menu. For UNIX computers, run the

license server; it will display its version number. The newest SentinelLM license

server can be downloaded from the Rainbow web page at http://www.rain-

bow.com.

The license server sets its configuration options only when it is first started. If

your server is already running, you will have to stop it and restart it to make any

configuration changes take effect.

You should review all of the configuration options that are described in this

chapter during the initial license server configuration. In most cases, once these

options are set they aren’t changed. There are some advanced license server

capabilities that can be enabled through other configuration options that are dis-

cussed in “Chapter 6 - Setting User Options” on page 109. These advanced capa-

bilities can be enabled or disabled as needed.

Even though most license server configuration options can be set in several dif-

ferent ways, only the recommended way is described here. If you want to set