Setting Up Your Network License Clients

This task explains how to set up two network license clients on two other workstation, as clients of the network license server you set up in Setting Up Your Network License Server.
You need to install License Use Management Runtime on at least one client.

Refer to the section "Setting Up Your Servers and Clients", in particular "Scenario 5: Configuring a Network License Client" in the chapter "Configuring License Use Management Runtime".
1. Log on as root onto a workstation to be configured as client, and on which you installed License Use Management Runtime.
2. Go to the LUM installation location.
You configure the network license clients using a configuration tool which has, in LUM 4.5.8 on AIX and Windows XP, and in LUM 4.6.X on all platforms, a graphic user interface (GUI), and on all UNIX platforms a script interface.
3. Run the command:

i4cfg

The Configuration Tool notebook is displayed.
4. On the Configure As page, check the Network License Client and Advanced Configuration options.
5. If the network license client is to locate the network license server using direct binding (strongly recommended), select the Direct Binding page, and enter in the Name field the TCP/IP host name of the server workstation ("ravel" in our scenario) with which the client will communicate, then press the <<Add>> button to add the server to the Servers list.
6. Select Close from the system menu at the top left corner of the Configuration Tool notebook, and click the Yes button to save your changes.

On all UNIX platforms, the license server can be configured using a script. To do so, type the command:

i4cfg -script

and in response to the first question, select 1, then answer the questions when prompted.
7. Run the command:

i4tv

to check that the server is up and running, and that the client can communicate with the server.

Windows

The configuration creates the i4ls.ini configuration file in:

COMMON_APPDATA\IBM\LUM

which is typically:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\IBM\LUM

If the following file:

C:\ifor\Ls\Conf\i4ls.ini

already exists on your machine, this file will be updated.

Note: if the "i4ls.ini" file exists in both locations, the file:

C:\ifor\Ls\Conf\i4ls.ini

will be used. To avoid problems, we strongly recommend that you use ONLY ONE file in the following directory:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\IBM\LUM

UNIX

The configuration creates the i4ls.ini configuration file in:

  • /var/ifor/ (AIX)
  • /opt/lum/ls/conf/ (HP-UX, Solaris).

Configuring Other Clients

To configure the other clients, simply copy this file to a directory on each client and reference the LUM variable IFOR_CONFIG with the full path to the file name: you do not need to install License Use Management Runtime on each client.