Specifying instances

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

Adding instances

  1. Open the Servers (F3 ) item in the Navigation Area.

    A list of all the applications you configured to use Server and Instance licenses is shown.

  2. Select the product for which to specify instances. The instances that are assigned to the product are shown in the Content Area.
  3. Right-click the application for which to specify the instances.
  4. On the shortcut menu, click New > New Server/Instance.
  5. Select in the Create a New Instance dialog box, the carrier and instance. Consult the documentation of the product to identify what you must specify here.
  6. Click Create to create an entry for the instance. The properties sheet which is called the specify server/instance data for the instance appears.

This table shows the Rank properties for the instance:

Instance
Tab Property Description
Server Data Server name Read only field.
Rank An optional ranking number.
Server ID The identification of the instance. An automatically generated, read-only, field.
Mandatory properties are underlined.

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

Because you can specify more instances for an application than you can use in your license configuration, only the first n ranks are checked for licenses, where n stands for the number of instance licenses in your SLM configuration.

The instance is identified based on the ID. This ID is generated automatically, based on the carrier and instance name.

For every application, you must add all instances that can run that application to your SLM server configuration.

Modifying an instance

To modify the ranking of an instance, you can select the instance, right-click and, on the shortcut menu, click Properties. You can now change the ranking.

To modify the carrier or the instance name, you must delete the current instance and create a new instance.

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.

Specifying Desktops

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