User guide

Chapter 5 - The Options File

Options File Examples

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• Prevents the user “lori” from using the “compile” feature on any machine on the network.

• Causes QUEUED messages to be omitted from the debug log file.

The sum total of the licenses reserved must be less than or equal to the number of licenses

specified in the FEATURE line. In the example above, there must be a minimum of four

licenses on the “compile” FEATURE line. If fewer licenses are available, only the first set of

reservations (up to the license limit) is used.

If this data were in file

/a/b/sampled/licenses/sampled.opt, then modify the license

file VENDOR line as follows:

VENDOR sampled /etc/sampled /sample_app/sampled/licenses/sampled.opt

Limiting Access for Multiple Users

Each INCLUDE, INCLUDEALL, INCLUDE_BORROW, EXCLUDE, EXCLUDEALL,

EXCLUDE_BORROW, MAX, and RESERVE line must have a single user name (or

group) listed. To affect more than one user name create a GROUP. For example to exclude

“bob,” “howard,” and “james” from using the feature called “toothbrush,” create the

following options file:

EXCLUDE toothbrush USER bob

EXCLUDE toothbrush USER howard

EXCLUDE toothbrush USER james

However, there is an easier way. Create a GROUP and exclude the list of users from using the

feature. Like the previous example, the following options file excludes “bob,” “howard,” and

“james” from using the feature called “toothbrush”:

# First define the group "Hackers"

GROUP Hackers bob howard james

# Then exclude the group

EXCLUDE toothbrush GROUP Hackers

Now when you want to allow or deny access to any feature to that group, you have an alias list

to make it simple.

Use HOST_GROUP to allow, deny, or reserve licenses for multiple hosts. For example, to

exclude all users logged in on the hosts “fred” and “barney” from using a feature called “f1,”

add these lines to your options file:

HOST_GROUP writers fred barney

EXCLUDE f1 HOST_GROUP writers