Specifying servers

For every application that uses the Server Licensing type, you must specify the corresponding servers. First you must add the servers and than save the configuration file.

Adding servers

  1. Open the Servers (F3 ) item in the Navigation Area. You see all the applications you configured to use server licenses.
  2. Select the application for which you want to specify servers that can run that application.

    The servers that are already assigned to the application are shown in the Content Area.

  3. Right-click the application for which you want to specify the servers.
  4. On the shortcut menu, click New > New Server/Instance.
  5. Specify in the Create a New Server dialog box, the server ID of the server, which is hardware-specific machine identification.
  6. Click Create to create an entry for the server. The properties sheet called the Specify Server Data is displayed.
  7. Specify the properties of the server, such as the name of the server, in the Specify Server Data properties sheet.

    This table shows the properties for the servers:

Servers
Tab Property Description
Server Data Server name The DNS name of the server, the system name.
Rank An optional ranking number.
Server ID The (hardware) machine identification of the server.
Required properties are underlined.

The rank specifies the sequence of the servers in the list of servers for a specific product. SLM uses this sequence to grant licenses to servers.

You can specify more servers for an application than you can use in your license configuration. The first n ranks are checked for licenses, where n stands for the number of server licenses in your SLM configuration.

The server must be identified with a server ID. To obtain that server ID, you can run the BclmID program on that server. You can find the program in the SLM directory.

Add for every application all servers that can run that application to your SLM server configuration.

Some applications can synchronize their servers in their user management console with your SLM server configuration automatically. In that case, you are not required to maintain the servers manually in your SLM configuration.

To modify the server information for a product:

  1. Select the Servers (F3 ) in the Navigation Area.
  2. Select the specific application from which you want to see the details.

You can now see the server details in the Content Area.

Saving configuration files

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

  1. Select the Servers (F3 ) in the Navigation Area.
  2. Right-click the application you want to save.
  3. On the shortcut menu, select All Tasks > Save Servers to License Server.

    Alternatively, you can save all specified servers for all applications simultaneously.

  4. Right-click the servers (F3 ) in the Navigation Area and, on the shortcut menu, select All Tasks > Save All Server Lists to License Server.