Restricting licenses
In some environments, users should only receive Meridian Enterprise licenses if a user is a member of a specific Active Directory group. Restricted licenses can be configured in the Windows registry of the computer where the BlueCielo License Server is installed. You specify pairs of user group names and corresponding Meridian Enterprise product codes. 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 Reserving licenses. You can restrict licenses without reserving them and you can reserve licenses without restricted 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 also be configured in Meridian Enterprise Server if the Use Enterprise Server for user management option is enabled as described in Configuring the connection to Meridian Enterprise Server.
- The available group names are retrieved from the Active Directory server that has been synchronized as described in Synchronizing user groups with Active Directory.
- Users must be members of a local or domain group.
To restrict licenses:
- Open the Users page as described in Viewing current license usage.
- Right-click the name of the licenses that you want to restrict and then 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 User group that has already been assigned product codes.
If the group you want to select is not listed:
- Click Add. The Select User Group dialog box appears.
- Type the name of a group in User group and press Enter. The group name appears in the User group list.
- 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.