Reservation groups

You can use reservation groups to reserve permits for particular users and client computers.

Reservation groups help to:
  • Ensure that permits are available when they are required
  • Balance the use of applications between individuals, teams, or departments
  • Prevent unauthorized use of applications

To ensure the availability of a permit, a user or client computer can be added to a reservation group for a feature and marked as included. To prevent the use of an application, the user or client computer can be marked as excluded.

Reservation groups are applied to particular features. For i2® products, the following features are used:
i2 Product Features
Analyst's Notebook

i2.ANB.main
Analyst's Notebook Premium

i2.ANB.main

i2.ANB.Premium
iBase

i2.iBase.main

i2.iBaseDesigner.main

The reservation groups for each feature are held in a reservation file on the server.

When a server receives a request for a permit, it checks whether the user or client that is requesting the permit belongs to a reservation group:
  • If the user or client belongs to a reservation group, and is marked as included, permits for that group are made available.
  • If the user or client belongs to a reservation group, and is marked as excluded, no permits for that group are made available.
  • If the user or client does not belong to a reservation group, only unreserved permits that are not in use are made available.
These restrictions apply to reservation groups:
  • A server can have a maximum of 256 reservation groups.
  • Each reservation group can have a maximum of 1000 members; a member is a user or client computer. Users are identified by Windows™ user names, and clients are identified by computer name or IP address.
  • Different reservation groups for the same feature on a server cannot have common members.
  • Reservation group names and member names cannot exceed 64 characters.
  • The number of application permits that are reserved cannot exceed the number of permits that are installed for that application.
Note: If a reservation file is created or edited, the Sentinel RMS License Manager service must be restarted for the reservation groups to take effect.