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RLM doesn’t currently have a built-in way to limit an application to a specific number of CPU cores. But this can be implemented with logic in your application.

 
RLM LICENSE lines can be configured to include an options string. This string is up to 64 characters in length and is included in the license signature (something that can’t be modified by end users). You can add the number of CPU cores your customers are licensed for in this field, either as an integer, or as a string. For example: “options=”cpu8”.

 
In your application you will want to get the contents of the options string with the rlm_license_options() API call. This will allow you to query for the number of CPU cores enabled in the license and restrict your application to that number of cores during processing.

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.