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License tracking and new client license type

Using the Domino Administrator, you can track the number of Notes and non-Notes clients who are authorized to access your Domino servers. First, you assign license types to each client. Then you view this licensing information in the Domino Directory.

You can assign the following types of licenses:


The default license type is Lotus Notes.

Assigning license types
You can assign license types manually, or you can create an agent or action to assign license types to multiple users simultaneously.

Assigning license types manually
To assign license types manually, you edit Person documents.


Assigning license types by using an agent
To use an agent to assign license types, you first create a form in the Domino Directory. The form includes a dialog box from which you can choose license types. Then you create and use the agent in the Domino Directory to assign the license types to Person documents you select.

The procedures below describe one way of creating the form and the agent.

Creating the form
To create a form in the Domino Directory, you should first create a copy of the Domino Directory template file and then create the form in the copy of the template file. For directions and rules about creating a coy of the Domino Directory template file, see the topic "Customizing the Domino Directory template" in Domino Administration Help or in the book Administering the Domino System.


Creating the agent
Choose File - Save to save the agent.

Using the agent
To use the agent to assign license types, do the following:


Viewing the assigned license types
You can view how many of each type of license you have assigned and to whom you have assigned each type of license.
The Server\Licenses view displays only one license type per person, even if you assign multiple license types to a person. The following section describes how the view determines which license type to display for a person.

Precedence of license types in the Server\Licenses view
The following table shows the precedence for determining which license type to display in the Server\Licenses view. The table also shows the category in which each license type is displayed in the view.
Precedence
License type

Category in the view
1

Lotus Notes Mail

Clients\Lotus Notes Mail
2

Lotus Notes Desktop

Clients\Lotus Notes Desktop
3

Lotus Notes

Clients\Lotus Notes
4
Lotus iNotes/Domino CAL
Client (alternate access)\Lotus iNotes/Domino CAL
5
Lotus Notes Designer

Lotus Notes Administration


Client (alternate access)\Other*

OR

Client (alternate access)\Unknown*

* Lotus Notes Designer and Lotus Notes Administration are displayed in the Client (alternate access)\Other category if the Person document contains at least one of the following:


If none of the above exist in the Person document, Lotus Notes Designer and Lotus Notes Administration licenses are displayed as Unlicensed/Unknown in the view.