Licensing the application

To license an application, these conditions must be met:

  • SLM client must be installed on the system where the application server resides.
  • SLM client must be provided with the location of the SLM Servers that are part of the SLM Cluster.
  • The product license handle ( SLM product-id) must be registered in the license file and activated with an SLM activation key.
  • In case of named user, server or instance licensing, the user name, server name or instance must be registered.

The Infor application requests a valid license through the SLM client. Therefore, ensure that the SLM client can connect to the SLM server(s) in the SLM Cluster that holds and manages the valid licenses. A Client can only be connected to one SLM cluster.

For more information, see SLM Cluster.

Before a license request can be approved by the SLM Cluster, the SLM Cluster must be provided with the license information for that adopting application. In this way can be verified whether that license is valid. The SLM server must, therefor, be specified with the applications and which licenses these applications can request. For that purpose, the SLM server uses product IDs and license types. You must specify these product IDs and license types in the MMC snap-in configuration tool. This configuration must be checked and validated by Infor. After validation, Infor provides you with a valid activation key. With this key, the SLM server can grant licenses on request. This activation key is stored at the same place as the license information. This diagram shows the activation procedure:

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This configuration is usually a one-time effort for an adopting application. It is required if the contract (SLA) is renewed or if you make changes to the product IDs, or the details in the license types.

The SLM configuration keeps track of the named users, named servers, or named desktops that are permitted to use the Infor application.. The moment you make changes in your users, servers, or instances, you must maintain your SLM configuration. These latter modifications do not require validation by Infor and, therefore, do not require a new activation key.