The New Reprise License Center (RLC)
Simplifies license generation and administration

An often overlooked piece of a well implemented licensing strategy is the back-office. This is the part of the licensing ecosystem where a software vendor defines products, assigns their license attributes, generates and tracks license fulfillments, and optionally sets up a web-based activation server to enable license key delivery over the Internet.

Access via Web Browser
RLM's License Center (RLC), now a standard part of RLM, is a simple web-based application that is licensed by RLM itself, providing a mechanism by which vendors can enable various access levels that closely match the licensing functions that their administration staff performs. Three levels of access are provided:

• view only

• manage products and activations

• generate licenses

Product Definitions
After access levels are assigned, the remaining setup of RLC is straightforward.
Next you create named product definitions that specify:

• Product name

• Product version

• License type (floating or node-locked)

• License duration (# days, or permanent)

Since products are sold in many different configurations - at different price points - product definitions that closely mirror your various software SKUs can be created so that you can support demos or trials, periodic or permanent licenses, and node-locked or floating license types. Additional license attributes can be assigned for each product definition to give you access to the full breadth of RLM's licensing features.

Internet Activation
If you decide to support RLM Internet Activation under your IIS or Apache server, the RLC also acts as the console from which you create activation keys and view fulfillment history. Activation keys are defined by:

• product to enable

• number of activations allowed per key

Whenever an activation key is used, a fulfillment record is written that contains:

• count or number of licenses activated

• time and date when activation was done

• hostid for license

• hostname on activated machine

• IP address of the remote host (typically) of machine requesting activation

• the generated license

Integration with CRM or Business Systems
Product definition and license fulfillment data are stored as colon-separated fields in flat text files so that you can import/export the data to/from your existing CRM or accounting systems. Software vendors needing a more comprehensive "entitlement management" solution are invited to contact our fulfillment partners.