License Administration Guide - norsar

Chapter 2: Trusted StorageComparison of Trusted Storage and License FilesComparison of Trusted Storage and LicenseFilesThis section gives an overview of the significant differences between FlexEnabled products that use trustedstorage and those that use license files. However, significant these changes might be, the methods for defininglicense rights in trusted storage are based on the methods for defining rights in license files. So if you have beenusing FlexEnabled products for years, the majority of your knowledge is directly applicable to licenses held intrusted storage.License Files and Fulfillment RecordsThe license model is defined primarily in the feature definition lines (FEATURE and INCREMENT) in a license file.There are the same feature definition lines inside fulfillment records in trusted storage. See the following diagramthat shows a typical lmadmin display for a fulfillment record.Figure 2-3: License server fulfillment record displayed by lmadminThe fulfillment record PR-589df128 provides 10 activatable licenses for the product PRprofessional. Eachactivatable license licenses two features: PRbasic and PRadvanced. These two feature definition lines (in thisexample INCREMENT lines) are packaged together in a single fulfillment record.License Administration Guide FNP-11111-LAG01 23