Welcome

Welcome to the demo of RLM Cloud, the simplest way to enable your customers for RLM floating licensees. This manual, the RLM Cloud Demo Guide, assumes that you are familiar with RLM, the Reprise License Manager.

This manual is an introduction to the RLM Cloud system. This manual is in a tutorial format, and by following the steps, you will configure RLM Cloud for serving licenses.

Note

RLM Cloud does not support license servers for ISVs who use ISV-defined hostids. Also, your application must be linked with RLM v12.0, and preferably with RLM v12.1 or later.

Introduction To RLM Cloud

RLM Cloud is a hosted license server farm, managed by Reprise Software. With RLM Cloud, you provision software license servers and deploy licenses to your customers which do not require any installation by your customer’s administrators. Since you deploy both the license servers and the licenses in RLM Cloud, there is no need for Activation Software such as RLM’s Activation Pro if you are using RLM Cloud.

When you use RLM Cloud to run your license servers, there is never an issue of customers wanting to move a license server or rehost an application. All the licenses are under your control. Issues related to license servers running on virtual machines, dongles to lock license servers, spoofed hostids, and other issues related to license servers being under the control of your customers all go away with RLM Cloud.

How RLM Cloud Works

In RLM Cloud, you manage one or more license server hosts which run the license server processes for your customers. The management software is called RLM Cloud Control, and it is a web-based application, hosted on Reprise servers. RLM Cloud is a pure SaaS offering - there is no software for you or your customers to install.

One thing to note is that there is nothing special about the license server processes that run in RLM Cloud – they are standard RLM servers. What this means is that your applications, built using RLM, will operate equally well with the traditional on-premises license servers or with RLM Cloud. This also means that you can deploy a mixture of on-premises and RLM Cloud servers, as your customer requirements dictate. You should note that there are some special management interfaces in the copy of the RLM server that runs RLM Cloud, but your ISV server is identical.