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Novell Licensing Services Administration Guide
Policy—An electronic representation of a term or condition in your
license agreement. Policies are contained in license certificates. For
example, a certificate for a company could include the following tags for
policies:
Each license unit is consumable.
Each license unit allows nodal reuse. (A user can use it multiple
times from different workstations.)
The certificate does not require an license service provider
assignment.
Duplicate certificates can be installed (an important tag for Master
License Agreement accounts).
The certificate is an evaluation license certificate.
The certificate has a soft stop. (The policy allows users to use the
service even though a license unit is not available. However, a
network administrator receives notification that the company is out
of compliance.)
The certificate uses secrets.
The certificate is digitally signed.
A policy is tied to a license certificate and a policy manager, not to the
licensing service. A policy can be flexible, simply by changing (or
replacing) a license certificate.
Policy Manager (Gatekeeper)—Code that makes decisions based on
requests from a licensing service.
A policy manager
Is part of the application
Makes the application NLS-enabled
Requests licenses from NLS
Receives responses from NLS regarding availability of license units
Decides whether to grant access to certain program functionality
Informs the license service provider when a license unit is no longer
being used
Contains mechanisms (policy) for handling errors concerning failed
requests for license units