Use the following guidelines below when installing your license certificates in the eDirectoryTM tree:
- Place user license certificates in or above the users' eDirectory context. In the User Access Licensing model, NLS searches for a license certificate starting at the user's context.
- Place server licenses in the server's eDirectory context.
- Smaller companies can place license certificates at the topmost Organization container. Companies with more complex eDirectory trees should place license certificates lower in the tree, closer to the Organizational Unit that contains the User objects.
- If you want users in two different contexts to use the same license certificate, the certificate must be placed in a common container above the users' contexts.
Scenario: A company has 10 users split across three organizational units: Accounting, Research, and Purchasing. In order for the 10 users to access the licenses, the licenses should be placed high enough in the tree for NLS to find it, typically in a container common to all of the organizational units or distributed through the three organizational units.
- Except for licenses provided to large companies with License Agreement contracts with Novell, a license cannot be installed in more than one container.
- If you have a remote site and a WAN link, place a license certificate in the remote site's context.