SLM components

SLM is a central application that checks whether users are licensed to start one of the Infor applications. SLM provides a common licensing solution for these applications, and ensures a consistent and reliable license validation mechanism.

SLM consists of these components:

• SLM Cluster

  The center of SLM that handles the requests for licenses coming from adopting applications. An SLM Cluster consists of one to four SLM Servers, and acts as one center for providing licenses and the SLM License file that contains the entitlement for Infor products.

• SLM License file

  The SLM license represents the entitlement for Infor products. After verification by the Infor Validation department, the entitlement is activated through an activation key. The license file can be deployed SLM MMC snap-in. This snap-in can be used to configure the license information used by the SLM Cluster to validate license requests. You can manage SLM Clusters both local and remote.

  For details, see, SLM Configuration.

  The SLM MMC snap-in runs on Windows on the SLM servers that are listed in the file.

• SLM client

  All systems with Infor applications validated through SLM must have the SLM client installed. The SLM client is the interface layer between adopting applications and the central SLM Cluster.