Using the BlueZone License Manager

License Manager Features

BlueZone License Manager has several key features that are designed to enhance the product.

Group Feature

The Group Feature can be used if you have the need to divide up your pool of Concurrent User Licenses into a logical grouping.

This can be useful if you have a particular group of users that always need to have licenses available and other users that are considered casual users.

Example: Let's say that within your user community, you have a group of Customer Service Reps that must always have licenses available.  You could create a Group called Customer Service and assign an equal number of licenses as you have Customer Service Reps.

Then create a Group called Casual and assign to this group the balance of your licenses.

Result: This will guarantee that all Customer Service Reps will always be able to obtain a license.

To configure the Group Feature:

  1. Go to Options:Groups on the License Manager MenuBar.  This will bring up the Group Name Dialog.

  2. Click the Add button.  Enter a Group Name.

  3. Tab down to the Any: edit box.

  4. Type in the number of Licenses you want associated with this group.

  1. Click the OK button.

  2. Create additional Groups as needed until all your licenses are assigned to at least two Groups.

Automatic Email Notification Feature

This is a very useful feature that allows you to proactively manage your Concurrent User Licenses.  You can set a threshold that when reached, will automatically send out an email to notify you.

Benefit: You can purchase additional Concurrent User Licenses before your end users are inconvenienced by not being able to access your host systems.

To configure Automatic Email Notification:

  1. Go to Options:Email on the License Manager MenuBar.  This will bring up the Email Options dialog.

  2. Under Server Information, in the Outgoing mail (SMTP) edit box, place the DNS Name or IP Address of your outgoing mail server.  This may be the same for of incoming mail as well.

  3. If your mail server requires authentication (and most do), check the appropriate box and enter an Account Name and Password.

  4. If your mail server requires Secure Password Authentication, check the appropriate box.

  5. Enter the Send To.  This is the mail account or person that will receive the notifications.

TIP  You may want to set up a group mailing list for these messages so that more than one person is notified.

  1. The Subject and From fields are pre-filled.  You can change them if you wish.  If you leave them blank, some mail servers will reject the messages.

  2. Set the Warning Threshold (%) to the desired value.

Example: If you have a 100 Concurrent User License, and you want to be notified whenever you reach 90 Concurrent users, then place 90 in this field.

  1. Click the OK button.

LU Pooling Feature

The LU Pooling Feature is covered in its own section.  

SEE  Click here to go to the LU Pooling Feature section.

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Loss of Communications with License Manager