About this guide Product access management is an optional feature that enables organizations to control the number of users able to concurrently run access management enabled i2® applications.About Product Access Management Product access management helps you to ensure that your organization remains compliant with your license agreement. You can control usage of i2® applications so that the number of concurrent users stays within the number that is permitted by your license agreement. Product access management is an optional feature and i2® applications can be used without it.Designing the deployment You must decide how many servers to distribute permits from and how many permits to make available from each server for each application. The number of permits that you make available to users can ensure that your organization remains compliant with your license agreement.Deploying Product Access Management To make permits available to clients, you must generate lock codes, request permits from i2, then install the server software and permits on the server.Setting up clients Product access management must be enabled for each application on the client that requires monitoring. You can configure the client with a list of specific servers to request permits from. You can also enable network broadcast so that the client can search for servers.Running i2 applications During startup, an access management enabled i2® application requests a permit from a server. If a permit is supplied by a server, the application successfully loads. If the application cannot acquire a permit, a message is displayed and the user can click Retry to try again, or can close the application.Accessing the server log file A server records all permit requests and returns in a log file. This file provides logging and tracing of errors and transactions. By default the log file lservsta
is created in the C:\Windows\system32 or C:\Windows\SysWOW64 directory.