Introduction

This chapter gives an overview of the License Management Facility, and explains how the License Management Facility helps you manage your Server Express licenses.

Warning: To use the License Management Facility on your system, UNIX must support shared memory allocation and use.

In this Chapter

Development Licenses and Deployment Licenses

Micro Focus Server Express involves two different types of licenses. One type, referred to as "development" licenses, govern the use of development tools, such as the COBOL compiler itself. Without a development license, development tools cannot be used.

The other type, named "deployment" licenses or "Micro Focus Server" licenses, control the run-time execution of compiled programs and applications. Deployment licenses can be thought of as "run-time licenses". Without deployment licenses, compiled programs and applications cannot run.

This book describes development licenses. The Deployment License Management Guide describes deployment licenses.

Features of the License Management Facility

The License Management Facility controls and monitors the use of the development system and of any earlier Micro Focus products that you are using on the same machine. This book uses the term 'licensed product' to refer to the development system (Server Express and/or Object COBOL) and earlier Micro Focus products for UNIX.

The License Management Facility helps you ensure that users are properly licensed to use the development products. The License Management Facility:

There is a separate licensing system for running applications you have developed with the development system. See your Deployment License Management Guide

Licenses and License Keys

When you receive a licensed product from us, you receive:

When you subsequently receive additional licenses for a licensed product from us, you receive:

The license key enables you to use the product. Each license key enables you to use the product on one machine only and for a given number of users. Typically the license key is not limited by time. However, it can be time-limited if, for example, it is for a product under evaluation.

For details of your license obligation refer to your Micro Focus End User License Agreement, or contact your sales representative.

The license key unlocks and activates the licensed product. Before users can use the product, you have to install the license key into the license database. You can add more license keys later, to increase the number of users who can use your licensed product, or activate another licensed product. You can install the additional license keys at any time, without having to reinstall the licensed product.

Important: The license key is proof of a valid license.

The license key is the valuable part of the licensed product. Without it, you cannot use the product. We recommend, therefore, that you treat the license key like any other valuable asset and keep it in a secure location before and after use.

Please be aware that we cannot issue a replacement license key if you lose the original.

64-bit Server Express on AIX:

If you install the 64-bit version of Server Express on AIX, you are issued with licenses for the 64-bit version. Any licenses associated with a 32-bit version of Server Express on AIX remain enabled. You cannot use 32-bit licenses with 64-bit Server Express on AIX, nor can you use 64-bit licenses with 32-bit Server Express on AIX.

Administering and Using the License Management Facility

As administrator, you are responsible for installing the License Management Facility on each system and making sure that it is running continuously. You are also responsible for installing the license keys for the licensed products. You can use the License Management Facility to monitor the number of licenses, so that you know when to order more.

See the chapter Administering the License Management Facility for more details.

Normally, users do not see any difference between products that are licensed by the License Management Facility and those that are not.

However, if a user attempts to use a product for which the License Management Facility cannot find a valid license, the License Management Facility issues a warning that no license key is found, or that the number of purchased licenses has been exceeded. The License Management Facility then terminates this execution of the licensed product.

Components of the License Management Facility

License Management Facility has four components:

The License Management Facility runs at your site on every machine that runs a Micro Focus licensed product. For example, the setup on one machine might be as in the following illustration.

Components of the License Management Facility

Figure 1: Components of the License Management Facility

Testing and Deployment Licensing

During the testing phase, when it is necessary to run or debug your application, you require Developer Testing Licenses for Micro Focus Server. Your COBOL development system is shipped with complementary Developer Testing Licenses and these are automatically installed when you install your development system. See your Deployment License Management Guide.