Examples Of Nls Clients - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

Examples of NLS Clients

Example 1: NLS Client Software on a Client Workstation
Example 2: NLS Client Software on a Server
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NOTE:
NLS is a service. The terms and conditions of your license agreement
determine how the product is to be used.
A soft stop policy informs users that they are out of compliance but
allows them to continue using license units under certain conditions.
A no stop policy ignores situations in which no license units are
available. NLS keeps track of the overage by logging the
noncompliance, but does not inform or warn the user.
At your Windows 2000 workstation you want to use OptionsPlus, an NLS-
enabled application. After you click the icon for OptionsPlus, that application
loads on your client workstation.
OptionsPlus then requests a license unit. The NLS component (a .DLL file
linked to OptionsPlus software) locates a license service provider (an NLS
component running on a server). That license service provider searches
eDirectory for a License Certificate object that has license units available.
The license service provider responds to the NLS client in OptionsPlus and
allows you to use the application.
When starting a server, NetWare loads and runs eDirectory and license service
provider, two necessary components of the NLS system.
Before completing its bootup, NetWare's policy manager uses NLS client
software (an NLM library for NLS) to request a server base license from the
license service provider.
The license service provider then queries eDirectory for a license certificate.
If a license unit is available, the license service provider then grants the
request for the policy manager, and the NetWare server is allowed to run.
NLS itself does not enforce licensing. Instead, it checks out a license unit or
returns the appropriate error condition to the application. The policy manager
part of the application then determines whether the user can use the
application or how the error condition is reported.