Working with WlmAdmin

License Server-Specific Actions

The following actions affect license servers:

To see information on a license server

• Click the name of a license server in the left-hand pane of the main window. In the right-hand pane of the display, you see the IP or IPX address of the computer containing the license server and its host name.

To add or remove a license server from the Defined Server List

• Right-click the name of a license server in the left-hand pane of the main window. From the menu select Add to Defined List or Remove from Defined List.

To shut down a license server

• Right-click the name of a license server in the left-hand pane of the main window. From the menu select Shutdown Server.

To add a license code to the license server from the keyboard

1. Right-click the name of a license server in the left-hand pane of the main window. From the menu select Add Feature. To add the license by typing in the license code, select From a String.

2. Type the license code in the License code box.

3. If this is a redundant license code, enter the token distribution criteria in the Distribution criteria box in this format:

Server1:tokens1^Server2:tokens2...

where Server is an IP address, IPX address, or host name of the computer containing a redundant license server and tokens is the number of license tokens to be allocated to that redundant license server. Note that all server:tokens arguments must be separate with a ^ symbol.

4. To permanently add the license code to the license server license file as well as temporarily adding it to the license server memory (only in effect until the license server is rebooted), select the Add feature to server's file check box.

5. Click Add.

To add a license code to the license server from a file

1. Right-click the name of a license server in the left-hand pane of the main window. From the menu select Add Feature. Select From a File and To Server (to add the license code temporarily to the license server memory, only in effect until the license server is rebooted) or To Server and its File (to add the feature both temporarily to the license server memory and permanently to its license file).

2. Now select the license code file from the standard file selection window.

To change the log file for a selected license server

1. To begin a new log file for a selected license server, right-click the license server and select Change log file name.

To configure a redundant license server file

1. From the Edit menu, select Redundant License File to start the Wrlftool utility. For information on using Wrlftool, see Using Wrlftool to Create or Edit a Redundant License File.

Note: In order to change the redundant license file, you must have write-access to the computer on which the file resides.

To disable/enable token borrowing for a license server

1. Right-click a license server and select Enable All Token Borrowing or Disable All Token Borrowing. (You can only use this function for a redundant license server.) Disabling token borrowing for this license server means that this license server will not get more tokens from another redundant license server when it runs out. This affects all licenses on this license server. To turn token borrowing on or off for a specific license, see To Disable/Enable Token Borrowing for a License.