Chapter 21: License-Enabling Packages Using FLEXwrap
Enabling License Tracking of Windows Installer Packages
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Grouping Options for Concurrent Use
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Setting Licensing Behavior During Server Down Time
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Setting Timeout Periods
Benefits of Using the Suite Option
If a Windows Installer package contains multiple executables, you can specify that you want all of the executables
to belong to the same suite and therefore require only one license.
To do this, select multiple executable files on the
Select Files Page
, select the
Treat selected executable files as
a suite
option, and specify a
Suite name
.
For example, if a Windows Installer package named
GraphicsUtilties.msi
includes a drawing application
(
draw.exe
), a screen capture application (
capture.exe
), and a page layout application (
layout.exe
), you can
choose to treat these applications as a suite so that the user would only have to purchase one license to activate all
applications in the suite.
Benefits of Encrypting the Source Executables
When the FLEXwrap Assistant wraps a Windows Installer package, it renames the selected .
exe
files to
.fwr
, and
makes a copy of the Wrapper file for each selected
.exe
file, giving each file the executable’s original file name and
icon. All of these files are compressed back into the Windows Installer
.msi
file.
Because the original, unwrapped executables are installed along with the wrapped executables, it is possible for a
user to rename the executable files with the
.fwr
extension back to having an
.exe
extension, and to launch the
original, unwrapped executables and bypass the licensing limits you have set.
Therefore, if you want to prevent users from running non-license-injected versions of the wrapped executables,
select the
Encrypt original executable file(s)
option on the
Select Files Page
. This would make it impossible for
the original executable files to run.
Caution •
This encryption feature of FLEXwrap is not guaranteed because some applications can be configured to
discourage any alteration, and encryption of the application binary may not be allowed.
Setting Your License Limit
On the
Set Limits Page
, you should set the
License limit
(the number of concurrent users permitted to run an
application) equal to the number of licenses that you have purchased, enabling you to comply with the terms and
conditions of your software license agreements.
However, the FLEXwrap Assistant provides several other options you can use to manage access to an application
while still complying with your license agreements:
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Overdraft support
—By selecting the
Enable overdraft licenses
option on the
Set Limits Page
, you can
choose to allow a specified number of users to run a software package during peak usage times even after its
license limit has been reached, and then generate a report on actual usage. You could then purchase any
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