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<strong>opsi</strong> <strong>manual</strong> <strong>opsi</strong> <strong>version</strong> <strong>4.0.2</strong><br />

14 <strong>opsi</strong> License Management 103<br />

14.1 Conditions for using the <strong>opsi</strong> License Management extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103<br />

14.2 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103<br />

14.2.1 Main features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103<br />

14.2.2 Invoking the license management from the <strong>opsi</strong>-configed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103<br />

14.3 license pools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104<br />

14.3.1 What is a license pool? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104<br />

14.3.2 Administration of license pools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104<br />

14.3.3 license pools and <strong>opsi</strong>-products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105<br />

14.3.4 license pools and Windows software IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105<br />

14.4 Setting up licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105<br />

14.4.1 Some aspects and terms of the license concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106<br />

14.4.2 Registering the license contract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106<br />

14.4.3 Configuring the license model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107<br />

14.4.4 Saving the data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107<br />

14.5 Editing licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107<br />

14.5.1 Example downgrade option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108<br />

14.6 Assignment and release of licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109<br />

14.6.1 <strong>opsi</strong> service calls for requesting and releasing a license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109<br />

14.6.2 <strong>opsi</strong>-winst script calls for requesting and releasing of licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110<br />

14.6.3 License contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110<br />

14.6.4 Manual administration of license use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111<br />

14.6.5 Preservation and deletion of license usages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112<br />

14.7 Reconciliation with the software inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112<br />

14.8 Licenses usage overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113<br />

14.8.1 In case of downgrade option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113<br />

14.9 Service methods for license management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114<br />

14.10Example products and templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115<br />

15 <strong>opsi</strong> WAN/VPN extension 115<br />

15.1 Preconditions for using the WAN/VPN extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115<br />

15.2 General overview of the WAN/VPN extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116<br />

15.3 Caching of <strong>opsi</strong>-products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117<br />

15.3.1 Communication Protocol for accessing an <strong>opsi</strong>-depot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118<br />

15.3.2 Using the .files file for Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118<br />

15.3.3 Internal processing of <strong>opsi</strong>-product caching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118<br />

15.3.4 Configuring the <strong>opsi</strong>-product caching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119<br />

15.4 Caching of configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120<br />

15.4.1 The local client-cache-backend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120<br />

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