WlmAdmin - Quick Start Tutorial

WlmAdmin is meant for monitoring the feature usage and licensing activity of applications licensed using Sentinel RMS.

It is typically meant to be used by the system administrator for viewing information related to licenses (such as their availability) and clients using them.

It can also be used for adding licenses to a license server, deleting licenses, and revoking licenses for a feature.

It should be run on an administrator's computer (on which the licensing activity and application usage needs to be monitored and logged). This has to be a networked system in the same subnet. However, it is not necessary to have the RMS license server installed on this system.

To run WlmAdmin use Windows Explorer to navigate the location of the WlmAdmin.exe file, and double-click the file to start the program. (The exact location of this file depends on your application vendor).

The first time you start WlmAdmin, it shows an empty screen, but as soon as you have selected license servers to monitor, WlmAdmin displays information about them. You can also see information about licenses on the license servers and the users who use them.

1. Under the Edit menu, click Defined Server List.
2. In the Server field, type the system name or IP address of the license server host name.
3. Click Add. A confirmation message appears.
4. Click OK. You will find the host name added under the Defined Servers node.

Double-click the Subnet Servers option in the left panel. A list of license servers running in the subnet will appear. This may take time if the network is busy.

Select the license server in the left panel, the license server information will appear in the top of the right panel.

1. Open the license node to display the licenses (active and inactive) that exist on the system are shown.
2. Select a license to view its information under the License Info tab (on the lower side of the right panel). You can find information such as, the license start date and the end date, and various other properties.

1. Under the feature node, a client node will be shown if any clients are using the licenses for that feature currently.
2. Select a client to view its information under the Client Info tab (on the lower side of the right panel). You can find information such as, the start time and the number of tokens being used.

You can add a license dynamically into the license server memory or write it into the license server file.

A dynamically added license code is only added in the license server memory. It will be loaded until the license server is restarted. Whereas a license code added into the license server file will be loaded even when the license server is restarted or the license is expired, until it is removed explicitly (by removing the feature).

Here are the steps to add a license code:

1. Select the license server host name (under the defined or subnet list).
2. Right-click to open the short-cut menu. Choose any of the following option:
3. Add Feature > From a File > To Server: Browse for the license file and add it dynamically.
4. Add Feature > From a File > To Server and its File: Browse for the license file and add it into the license server file.
5. Add Feature > From a String > To Server: Paste the license code from Clipboard and add it dynamically.
6. Add Feature > From a String > To Server and its File: Paste the license code from Clipboard and add it into the license server file.