Specifying named users

If named user licenses, server licenses, instance, or desktop licenses are present in the license contract, you must specify:

  • Which named users are linked to which product.
  • Which named servers are linked to which product.
  • Which instance names are linked to which product.

This information is not part of the license agreement with Infor. Infor only counts the type and number of licenses, and not the actual names of users, servers, instances, or desktops. Changing this information does not impact the activation key.

The following sections describe how to specify the named users, servers, and instances.

Several Infor applications support uploading of named users to SLM. If this is not the case you can use the manual adjustment of named users:

  1. Open the Named Users (F2 ) item in the Navigation Area. All product-ids of the applications you configured to use named user licenses are shown. Select the application for which you want to specify named users.
  2. Right-click the application for which you want to specify the named users and, on the shortcut menu, click New > New Named User. A dialog box is displayed in which you can specify the name of the named user.
  3. Click Create after you specify the name of the user to create an entry for the named user. A properties sheet called Specify Named User Data appears. In this sheet you can specify the properties for the new user.

This table shows the properties for a named user:

Named User Properties
Tab Property Description
User Data User name The name of the user as used by the adopting application.
Rank An optional ranking number. The rank specifies the sequence of the users in the list of users for a specific product.
User Type An attribute to indicate whether a user is a light user or a heavy user.
User Count An optional attribute to define how many licenses this particular user can allocate. The default value is 1, which signifies that this user can work with the licensed application on one desktop concurrently.
Mandatory properties are underlined.

SLM uses the rank sequence when granting licenses to users. Because you can specify more users for an application than you can use in your license configuration, only the first n ranks are checked for licenses, in which n signifies the number of named user licenses in your SLM configuration.

For every application, you must add all named users for that application to your SLM server configuration.

Modifying named users

To modify the named users’ information for a product:

  1. Select the Named Users (F2 ) in the Navigation Area.

  2. Select the specific application from which you want to see the details.

    In the Content Area, the named users’ details are shown. The Accumulated Count field shows the accumulative sum of all the used licenses.

    Before the specified named users become active, you must save these named users to your SLM server.

  3. Select the Named Users (F2 ) in the Navigation Area.
  4. Right-click the specific application that you want to save

  5. On the shortcut menu, select All Tasks > Save Named Users to License server.

    Alternatively, you can save all specified named users for all applications simultaneously.

  6. Right-click the Named Users (F2 ) in the Navigation Area.

  7. On the shortcut menu, select All Tasks > Save All Named User Lists to License Server.