Restricting licenses
In some environments, users should only receive Meridian Enterprise licenses if the user is a member of a specific Active Directory group. You reserve licenses by specifying the BlueCielo product codes that you want to allow the members of specific groups to use. The BlueCielo License Server service will then only grant licenses to the members of the specified group for the specified product code. If a user attempts to use one of the specified products but is not a member of the matching group, the user will be denied a license.
Note
- Restricting licenses overrides reserved licenses as described in the BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise Administrator's Guide. You can restrict licenses without reserving them and you can reserve licenses without restricting them. But if you want to use both license reservations and license restrictions, the users for which you want to reserve licenses must also be members of groups to which licenses have been restricted. Users without reserved licenses only need to be members of groups to which licenses have been restricted.
- Restricted licenses can be configured in Meridian Enterprise Server only if the Use Enterprise Server for user management option is enabled in the EDM Server properties in Meridian Enterprise Administrator.
- The available group names are retrieved from the Active Directory server with which the Meridian Enterprise Server has been synchronized as described in Synchronizing users and groups from Active Directory.
- Users must be members of a local or domain group.
To restrict licenses:
- Open the Licenses page as described in Managing licenses.
- Click Restrictions. The License Restrictions dialog box appears and lists all of the registered licenses. By default, the Select user group list is empty until you specify at least one group to which to restrict licenses.
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Select an existing group from Select user group that has already been assigned product codes.
If the group you want to select is not listed:
- Click Add group. The SELECT USER GROUP dialog box appears.
- Type a search criterion in Search filter and press Enter. The matching groups appear in the User group list.
- Select a group and click OK. The group appears in the Select user group list where you can select it to assign product codes.
- Select the license codes that you want to allow for the specified group.
- Repeat steps 3-4 for each group to which you want to restrict licenses.
- Click OK to save your changes.