AE Services expanded its licensing capabilities to include enterprise-wide licensing. Enterprise-wide licensing provides the flexibility to move capacities and features from one AE Services server to another. With enterprise-wide licensing, you can move capacities or features from one server to another by using a master WebLM server to allocate license features to different AE Services servers.

Because this configuration relies on a master enterprise license file (ELF), which generates allocation license files (ALF), it is referred to as an ELF/ALF configuration. Each ALF will reside on an AE Services server with a Local WebLM Server. This is the recommended model for AE Services enterprise configurations. If you use the ELF/ALF model, you do not need to change the default settings on the WebLM Server Address page.

For this configuration you must use WebLM Administration to configure the master WebLM server so that it can allocate licenses to each local WebLM server on the AE Services servers. (In the WebLM Administration, select Licensed Products Application Enablement (CTI)Configure Local WebLMsAdd Local WebLM.)

The following figure illustrates an ELF/ALF configuration: