Configure the License Manager address

If you are a concurrent license customer, BlueZone License Manager is required to monitor concurrent license limits.

BlueZone License Manager is a small application that resides on a server in your network. The BlueZone emulation clients communicate with BlueZone License Manager through TCP/IP. The BlueZone emulation clients must have the IP address of BlueZone License Manager stored in their configuration in order to communicate with the BlueZone License Manager server.
Note: If you are evaluating BlueZone Web-to-Host, you do not need to install or configure BlueZone License Manager. When BlueZone is running in the evaluation mode, it operates without BlueZone License Manager.
There are two ways of configuring the License Manager IP address:
  • Wizard configuration method
  • BlueZone emulation client configuration method

Using the Wizard configuration method, the Wizard adds the License Manager IP address and group name (if any) to the object tag that is located on the launch page. All sessions that are configured to start from this launch folder automatically have the License Manager IP address configured, regardless of the type and number of sessions.

If you use many different BlueZone emulation clients like BlueZone Mainframe Display, BlueZone iSeries Display, BlueZone VT, and BlueZone FTP and you have many BlueZone configuration files to manage, the Wizard configuration method is recommended.

Using the client configuration method, you must start a BlueZone session for each BlueZone configuration file that you have configured in the Wizard and place the License Manager IP address and group name (if any) in the configuration and save it.
Important: When you configure BlueZone Web-to-Host to allow your users to save their configuration files locally (the default configuration), BlueZone Web-to-Host will not overwrite the user's configuration file even if you have posted a new one on the web server. In this case, your users must run ezClear before they can receive the new configuration file that contains the License Manager IP address and group name (if any).

If your requirements are very simple, you use one BlueZone emulation client like BlueZone Mainframe Display and you have one BlueZone configuration file that is used for all your BlueZone emulation client sessions, the client configuration method is recommended.

Also, in many cases, using the client configuration method makes it easier to convert from evaluation mode to production mode.