Post-Use Billing

Many ISVs and License Administrators prefer a licensing option which allows the software to be used in excess of a predetermined limit, and then invoiced after-the-fact for actual usage. This capability has been referred to as “Pay-Per-Use”, or “Metered” or “Post-Use Billing”.

RLM supports this license model via the authenticated report log.

Note

All report logs are authenticated.

RLM will generate authentication data within the report log. When the report log is returned to the ISV, the utility rlmverify is run to verify the contents of the report log. Usage is:

rlmverify report_log_file

rlmverify reads the specified report_log_file and checks the authentication records, then indicates whether the report log is correct or whether data in various sections has been modified.