First Steps

The JetStream License Manager is a separate application used to manage everything concerning your JetStream licenses. It is installed along with JetStream, or you can install it on its own for setting up License Servers (for more details on this, see ). You can access the License Manager from Start, Programs, JetStream JetStream, License Manager, but for your convenience, on first installing JetStream, it will open automatically and start the license wizard, which looks like this:

You must first select the type of computer you are running the license wizard on. Here you have three options:

• "Desktop". Select this if you have a normal desktop computer or workstation.

• "Laptop". Select this option if you use a portable computer such as a laptop or notepad machine.

• "Server". Select this option if you are installing on a server machine, or if your computer does not fall into any of the above catagories.

If you check the "Laptop" option, you will be taken to another screen asking you about the ethernet card in your laptop computer.

• "In my docking station". Select this option if you connect your network cable into a docking station.

• "In my laptop computer". Select this option if you plug your network cable directly into your laptop computer.

• "I don't connect to a network". Select this option if you do not connect your computer to a network.

• "I don't know". Select this option if you are not sure where your ethernet card is located.

If you use multiple cards (e.g. a standard LAN card at work and a wireless card at home) select the "I don't connect to a network" option, as you will need to disable Ethernet ID locking to ensure JetStream JetStream works when using either card.

The license wizard uses this information to set up the options related to Ethernet card ID locking (see

After the pages to determine your computer type, you will be asked what sort of license you want to install on your machine.

To install a fixed license on a stand-alone machine, or floating licenses on a server, choose the first option, "Install licenses on this machine" and follow the instructions in or respectively.

Otherwise, if you are setting up a client to take its licenses from a server, then choose the second option, "Use floating licenses from a remote server" and follow the instructions in

RequestingRecovering and Returning licenses work the same way, whether you're installing them on a stand-alone PC or for licenses to be served from a server.