Reservation File Characteristics

The reservation file indicates the amount of license tokens that are reserved for members of different groups. For example, the Sales department could be a group of ten members for which 15 license tokens are reserved. The members might be network users or specific computers on the network. The reservation file might also indicate that certain members of the group are excluded from taking license tokens.

When the License Manager receives a request, it checks whether the user making the request belongs to a group. If so, and license tokens are available for that group, the License Manager issues the token(s) and decrements the token count on the License Manager. Otherwise, requests will be serviced with tokens that have not been reserved and that are available.

The following information applies:

• A maximum of 256 groups, each with 1000 members are supported.

• Groups must be mutually exclusive. Different groups for the same feature must not have common users or computers.

• Group names and member names cannot exceed 64 characters each.

• The number of license tokens reserved for a feature cannot exceed the number of concurrent copies specified in the license code for that feature. If the number of license tokens reserved is greater than the number of concurrent copies specified for the feature in the license code, the number of tokens specified in the license code is used.

• To exclude all members of a group from using license tokens for a feature, specify 0 tokens.