Benefits Of Using The Suite Option; Benefits Of Encrypting The Source Executables; Setting Your License Limit - Novell ADMINSTUDIO 9.5 User Manual

• Grouping Options for Concurrent Use
• Setting Licensing Behavior During Server Down Time
• Setting Timeout Periods

Benefits of Using the Suite Option

If a Windows Installer package contains multiple executables, you can specify that you want all of the executables
to belong to the same suite and therefore require only one license.
To do this, select multiple executable files on the
a suite option, and specify a Suite name.
For example, if a Windows Installer package named
( ), a screen capture application (
draw.exe
choose to treat these applications as a suite so that the user would only have to purchase one license to activate all
applications in the suite.

Benefits of Encrypting the Source Executables

When the FLEXwrap Assistant wraps a Windows Installer package, it renames the selected .
makes a copy of the Wrapper file for each selected
icon. All of these files are compressed back into the Windows Installer
Because the original, unwrapped executables are installed along with the wrapped executables, it is possible for a
user to rename the executable files with the
original, unwrapped executables and bypass the licensing limits you have set.
Therefore, if you want to prevent users from running non-license-injected versions of the wrapped executables,
select the Encrypt original executable file(s) option on the
the original executable files to run.
Caution •
discourage any alteration, and encryption of the application binary may not be allowed.

Setting Your License Limit

On the Set Limits
application) equal to the number of licenses that you have purchased, enabling you to comply with the terms and
conditions of your software license agreements.
However, the FLEXwrap Assistant provides several other options you can use to manage access to an application
while still complying with your license agreements:
• Overdraft
choose to allow a specified number of users to run a software package during peak usage times even after its
license limit has been reached, and then generate a report on actual usage. You could then purchase any
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This encryption feature of FLEXwrap is not guaranteed because some applications can be configured to
Page, you should set the License limit (the number of concurrent users permitted to run an
support—By selecting the Enable overdraft licenses option on the
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Enabling License Tracking of Windows Installer Packages
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