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Creating a Windows service for the RLM server

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UpdatedApril 1, 2025
  1. Download an Admin bundle from our website
  2. Run the installer
  3. (Optional) Specify the RLM install location
    Specify installation location
  4. Open a command prompt (CMD) or PowerShell terminal
  5. Change Directories to the location where RLM was extracted in step #3. For example:
    cd C:\Users\[username]\Documents\Reprise\rlm.v16.1BL1-x64_w4.admin
  6. Determine which flags you will want to start RLM with. A full list of flags can be found in our documentation.
  7. Enter your command.
    1. Start with “rlm”
    2. Include “-install_service”
    3. “-service_name <service_name>
    4. “-dlog <debug-name>
    5. Any other flags from step #6 
      Example: rlm -install_service -service_name example-rlm-service -dlog my-debug-log.log
  8. RLM should now be configured to run as a service automatically. You can verify this by checking the services application on Windows:
    1. In the start menu type services, and click the services application from the search results
      Services application search result
    2. Find your service in the list of services. This will be what you named the service in step #7
      Example RLM Service

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.