| The ulm program is the main control-unit in the ULM license management system. Its action is driven by the command line options or, if no options are specified, by user input in interactive mode. Batch serializing can be performed by specifying all of the a-, c-, p-, r- and s-options. When invoked without options, the ULM license administration program will startup in interactive mode. Main menu: Unitec License Manager Select Product:
1 - CSS Commercial Spooling System
2 - WinCss / CSS Windows Interface
3 - UDM Unitec Data Manager
q - Quit Enter Selection: Choosing items will open a submenu or a request to enter serializing parameters. On each menu level, entering 'q' or just hitting <Return> will get you back one level or terminate the program respectively. After product selection, the next menu is visible: Unitec License Manager Commands:
1 - Serialize <Product>
2 - Set <Product> License Unit Assignment
q - Quit Enter Command: where <Product> shows the name of the product selected in the main menu. Selection 1 enters the product serialization process (also called product branding). In order to successfully complete this section, please have your Activation Key ready. The following data has to be entered: | Prompt |
Entry |
| Activation Key |
This eight character key is used to verify all data entered.
It consists of characters and/or digits and is not case sensitive, i.e. it may be entered
in upper or lower case. |
| Serial Number |
The product serial number consists of three parts, delimited
by hyphens ‘–’. The first part represents the unique product number
assigned to the customer, the second part identifies the license type and the third part
shows the number of license units (i.e. the number of users allowed to work with the
software). Missing parts use predefined defaults. |
| Company Name |
The customer name. To prevent terminal compatibility
problems, umlauts may be entered as ae, oe and ue. |
| Street Address |
A missing street address must be entered as hyphen ‘–’. |
| ZIP / City |
ZIP code and city name. |
| Release Number |
Product release number. |
| Date Period |
Used for time limited demo versions. This entry does not show
for unlimited license types. The date must be entered in the format yyyymmdd–yyyymmdd |
After all parts have been entered,
individual modification is possible. To conclude the serialization process just hit the
<Return> key.
Selection 2 allows the system administrator to predefine the users
allowed to run the software. Each user identification consist of either the numeric client
IP address (for Client-Server products such as WinCss and UCM) or the name
of the invoking tty (for plain Unix products such as CSS and CssLib).
Manual assignments are however not required. On startup, each Unitec program locates
its product entry in the license database and searches for the current user identification
in all available license unit slots. If no such slot can be found, an automatic assignment
to the first vacant slot is performed. When all slots have been used, execution of the
software is not possible for unassigned user ids.
In rare circumstances, if the network layout or an IP address have changed, you can
clear or modify the data stored in a license unit in this menu section. |
