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1. Download an Admin bundle from our website

2. Extract the contents of the downloaded admin bundle.

a. The downloaded admin bundle for Linux will come in the format: [RLM admin bundle name].tar.gz

b. Extracting would look something like this:

3. Creating the RLM Service on Linux Using systemd

a. Change Directories to /etc/systemd/system

b. Create the file rlm.service and include the following:

[Unit]
After=network.target
Description=Reprise License Management Server

[Service]
# Optional environment variables
Environment=RLM_LICENSE=/path/to/license/files
Type=simple
User=<user>
WorkingDirectory=<Directory where RLM is located>
ExecStart=<Path to RLM [arg1 arg2 … argN]>
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

c. Ensure that Environment, User, WorkingDirectory, and ExexStart are updated.

* Any flags you’d like to add to RLM’s startup can be added to the ExecStart= section. A full list of flags can be found in our documentation.

4. Run this command to enable the service at boot (may need to be done as sudo)

5. RLM should now be configured to run as a service automatically. You can verify this by running the following command on Linux:

 

RLM and RLM
Activation Pro

What’s the difference?

Reprise License Manager (RLM)

Software License Manager

RLM provides runtime checking that verifies that your application is licensed to run and that the current usage of your application is within the limits you have ser every time your application runs.

As a Software publisher, you integrate RLM into your product, and RLM keeps track at runtime of who is using the licenses of your software.

RLM can do this entirely within the client library (linked into your application), or, more commonly, your application makes a request of the RLM Lincese Server to check out a license.

The lincese server runs either on your customers network, or in the cloud if you are using our RLMCloud™ service.

RLM provides runtime checking that verifies that your application is licensed to run and that the current usage of your application is within the limits you have ser every time your application runs.

RLM Activation Pro

Software Activation Manager

Activation Pro is
used once when your customer purchases your software in order to retrieve the license which is specific to that customer.

Software Activation’s purpose in life is to get the licenses for your product to your customers with a minimum of fuss.

Activation Pro also has a server component wich we call the activation server.

Your application contacts the activation server and supplies a short text activation key, and in exchange, the activation server returns the license which enables your product.

Generally, this is done once, right after your customer purchases your software, not every time your software is invoked.