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INTRODUCTION TO QLA SERVER

22 | GETTING STARTED WITH QUARKXPRESS SERVER 2018

Introduction to QLA Server

QLA Server is the software component that issues licenses to the Quark application

clients. After you install Quark License Administrator Server, download your license

ﬁle from the Quark Web site. The server can be any computer on the network that

meets the minimum system requirements. The server monitors license usage over

the network and grants licenses to the client computers.

QLA clients are the computers on which Quark applications are installed — for

example, QuarkXPress, Quark Publishing System® (QPS®), or QuarkXPress Server

software. When a user attempts to launch a Quark application on a client computer,

the client sends a request to the QLA Server. The server, which is always listening for

requests, determines whether there is an available license. If there is, then the server

grants a license and the client computer can launch the Quark application. If no

licenses are available, the server does not grant a license. When this occurs, the

Quark application does not launch.

In the QLA Control Panel application, the Conﬁguration Options tab lets you

specify how QLA monitors licenses. This tab includes the Server Conﬁguration area

and the Extended Check-out Conﬁguration area.

In the Server Conﬁguration area:

The Heartbeat Interval (Seconds) value lets you specify the number of seconds •

between attempts by the client to reach the server. If a Quark application fails to

successfully connect to the server within this time, then that application

automatically attempts to reconnect.

The Heartbeat Retries ﬁeld lets you specify the number of times a client can •

attempt to make a connection before reporting a connection failure.

For example: If the Heartbeat Interval (Seconds) value is 3600 (one hour) and the

Heartbeat Retries value is 10, the system waits 10 hours before failing. If the client

is able to successfully connect to the server on or before the tenth attempt,

outstanding licenses are restored. If not, the application checks in all allocated

licenses.