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1 Licensing Overview

To use IssueNet a user must be allocated a license that can be validated. Licenses are allocated in the IssueNet administrator and validated by an IssueNet license server when a user logs on. Licenses are made available for allocation by activating them and adding them to the license server. IssueNet supports the following licensing modes:

• Named User: a license which is associated with a specific IssueNet user.
• Concurrent: a pool of licenses available to multiple IssueNet users.
• Site: an unlimited pool of licenses is available to all IssueNet users.
• Design-time: a license used for accessing the IssueNet Architect.

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2 The License Server

The license server is a web services application that validates licenses, and is installed as a component of the IssueNet platform installation. Because it is a web services application, the license server must be installed on a computer running IIS 5.0 or greater. In most environments, it is installed on the server running all other IssueNet applications.

When a user logs onto an IssueNet application, the application contacts the license server to have the user’s license validated. If the license is a concurrent license, the IssueNet application will also occasionally ping the license server to indicate that a license is still in use.

The license server must be installed on a computer that is:

• Running IIS 5.0 or greater
• Accessible from a URL by the client applications that will use it to validate their licenses.

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2.1 Specifying the License Server Location

ScreenCap For an IssueNet application to use a license server for license validation, it needs to be able to address it it. Each IssueNet database stores as a system option the location of the license server. Multiple IssueNet databases can be configured to use the same license server. So, regardless of how you use IssueNet in your organization, you will typically have only need one instance of the license server.

To specify the license server for a particular IssueNet database:

1. Logon to the IssueNet Administrator
2. Select Tools|Licensing
3. Click on the Change button to specify the URL for the license server.

The default URL is: http://localhost/mmflicenseservice

The default URL is adequate for types of evaluation if you are launching IssueNet from the same machine on which the platform was installed. If you want users on other computers to connect and have their licenses validated, you will need to modify the URL to provide them access to the license server. For example: http://my license server/mmflicenseservice.

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3 License Administration