Setting Up Licenses for Your Application

This chapter describes what you need to do as a developer to ensure that your application has the proper Micro Focus Server license and how to make it easy for your end users to set up your application.

In this Chapter

Overview

When you ship an application that you have developed with Net Express, you also need to provide Micro Focus Server. Micro Focus Server provides the run-time system and support. It is supplied as part of Net Express and also in stand-alone form on a separate CD.

You need to enable your end users to install their Micro Focus Server licenses. We recommend that your users use the Micro Focus supplied setup program for Micro Focus Server. This setup program prompts the installer for the license key and for the location of the database. You can arrange for this information to be supplied silently, so that your end users do not have to enter it.

In some situations you might want to provide your own setup program for an application that uses Micro Focus Server. For example, you could write a setup program to install the application and Micro Focus Server together.

Setting Up with the Supplied Setup Program

This section gives a brief overview of how the Micro Focus supplied setup program handles the setting up of license management. The program is described in full in .

The program prompts for the following information:

Alternatively you can specify this information on the command line of the setup program. This is called installing silently.

To silently install licenses and Micro Focus Server

If you are not installing Micro Focus Server silently, you will need to provide your end users with the license key. They will also need a record of the license key when solving some problems, such as the license database being moved or corrupted in some way.

Writing Your Own Setup Program

You can write your own setup program for applications that run under Micro Focus Server. Setting up an application that runs under Enterprise Server requires that the application is deployed to Enterprise Server, but there are no other major considerations.

When you provide your own setup program for an application that uses the base Micro Focus Server, first you need to decide how your end users will install your application. For example, will they install your application together with Micro Focus Server or will they install a shared Micro Focus Server separate from your application?

The main ways of packaging an application and the base Micro Focus Server are:

For details of shipping an application with Micro Focus Server, see the topic in your Net Express Help.