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Chapter 2
Introduction
Intended Audience
SAM
report
-Lite
™
and this manual are intended for use by system administra-
tors, system analysts, and managers who use FLEX
lm
®
license management
to produce usage reports for your software.
About This Manual
This manual is divided into five chapters and two appendixes:
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Chapter 1, Quick Start to SAMreport-Lite, provides quick instructions for
installing and using SAM
report
-Lite.
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This chapter defines license management and introduces SAM
report
-Lite.
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Chapter 3, Basics of Generating a Report, contains instructions for
generating a Usage Summary report from the SAM
report
-Lite interface.
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Chapter 4, Usage Summary Report, describes the Usage Summary report,
and describes how to arrange report output.
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Chapter 5, Report Input and Output, shows how to specify input and
output files and describes output formats.
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Appendix A, Enabling and Managing Report Logs, provides guidelines for
enabling and managing report logs.
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Appendix B, SAMreport-Lite Error Messages, lists some errors that you
might get while running SAM
report
-Lite.
What is License Management?
License management is a set of technologies that monitors the use of soft-
ware. In some cases, it may also limit use of a product or record usage of a
product.
Most software companies have legal agreements that detail the obligations of
the manufacturer and user to each other. These agreements are often referred
to as “licenses.” Some companies also include license management technol-
ogy to simplify the legal use of their products. Throughout this documenta-
tion, the term “license” refers to a “token” obtained through some electronic
technology, not the legal agreement between a customer and a software
vendor.
License management is embedded into a software product by the software
vendor.
