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Software COP
The Ultimate Software License Enforcer
Version 1.1
Designed and Coded by:
Blaze Technologies
2100 S. 7th St.
Suite 223
Rapid City, SD 57701
Email: sschlome@silver.sdsmt.edu
sbauer@silver.sdsmt.edu
BBS: 605-394-5778
Copyright: Copyright (c) 1993 by Blaze Technologies
Other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of
their respective holders.
License
Agreement : This software is provided on a trial base for a 45 day period. This is
intended to allow 30 days for evaluation of this product and 15 days to
order the product. If you do not purchase this product after the 45 day
evaluation period, then you must remove all copies from your system. By
using this software you are agreeing to these terms.
Once you have purchased this software, you will be given a personalized
copy for your site. This purchased copy may not be exchanged, sold or
distributed.
Warranty: This software is sold on an as-is basis. Blaze Technologies specifically
disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied. In no event shall Blaze
Technologies be liable for any loss of profit or any other damage including
but not limited to special, incidental, consequential or other damages
including damages to a third party. By using this software you are agreeing
to these terms. If these terms are not agreeable, do not use this software.
Table of Contents
Synopsis 4
Installation 5
Usage 6
Wrapping Overlayed Programs 10
Limitations 11
Support 12
Appendix A 13
Ordering Instructions 16
Order Form 17
Synopsis
As the growth of networks has exploded, complying with concurrent usage limits of
a program has grown very difficult. Also, tracking the usage of an application that has
been installed on a LAN is even more difficult. As it turns out, software publishers are
becoming more aggressive about license enforcement. This has been demonstrated by the
increase in the number of 'raids' and lawsuits filed against corporate users. Formerly, the
lack of reliable tools made software metering almost impossible, but with the birth of the
Software COP, the goal of software license compliance is easy to obtain.
Software COP allows you to accomplish both goals of compliance and economy.
It does this by allowing you, as a system administrator, to monitor the demand of a
application and limit how many users can concurrently execute an application.
For monitoring the demand of an application, Software COP provides various
report formats. These reports consist of:
* Overall usage for all monitored applications.
* Daily application usage histogram.
* Applications used by user.
* Users that have used an application.
Along with the monitoring of the demand, you can limit the actual number of
concurrent users for an application. Since Software COP was designed to be very
versatile, a couple of methods have been included to ease software metering. These are:
* Pooled metering - One big limit that encompasses everyone.
* Group metering - This is where the system administrator can assign
different limits to individual Novell Netware groups.
With all of these features one would assume that Software COP has grown very
large. However, the design goals of the Software COP provided for these benefits:
* Low memory overhead when running metered DOS applications -
typically less than 1K. This was accomplished with the aid of Ralf
Brown's spawno routines to reduce the memory overhead when
shelling to other DOS programs.
* No need for any TSRs.
* No need for any special program to be loaded with Windows load= line.
* No need for a PC dedicated to metering software.
* Allows for the waiting of a program's availability.
* Easy, simple installation on already established networks.
Software COP will help you compile all the information you need to allocate your
resources efficiently while documenting your network's compliance with current license
limits
Software COP Installation
The installation of the software cop is very simple since there are not any dedicated
machines that need to be set up or NLMs that need to be loaded. The following steps will
guide one through the installation of the Software COP administration program onto the
LAN system.
The administration program, SOFTCOP.EXE, can either be installed on a server or
on one's local hard drive. The benefit of having the program on a local hard drive is that
the security is a little better since it is harder to get at. Other than that the software
installation is the same for a server or a local hard drive.
Before you begin the installation you should decide what the name of the log file
will be. Also, you must decide which directory on the file server that you are going to use
for the log files. The users must have full privileges to the log file directories so that they
can log their data in the log file and merge the individual temporary files together.
These are the general steps that are needed to install the Software COP:
1) Copy all of the files from the distribution media to the directory where you
decided to install the Software COP administration program, SOFTCOP.EXE.
These files are: SOFTCOP.EXE, DOSD.EXE and WIND.EXE. These files are the
main files that Software COP uses. There will also be several other document files
in the directory. Then create the needed log file directories on the file server(s).
Remember that the users must have full rights to these directories for the logging to
work correctly. Copy the DLL's to a directory that is in all of the users' paths on
the server such as the public directory.
2) In the directory where SOFTCOP.EXE was installed, a simple configuration
file must be created. This configuration file, SOFTCOP.CFG, tells the
administration program what the valid log file paths and file names are. Below is a
sample SOFTCOP.CFG file:
LOGFILE SCLOG.DAT
FS1\SYS:TMPFILES\LOGS\
FS2\SYS:TMPFILES\LOGS\
FS3\SYS:LOGS\
The first line contains the keyword LOGFILE and then the name of the log file.
After the first line, the names of the paths for the log files are listed. There must be
at least one path for each server volume that is going to have programs protected by
Software COP. From the example file above, one can see that the paths include
the server name, volume name and then the path with a final backslash. There can
only be one log file path per file server - volume combination. After entering all of
the log files, save the file with the name SOFTCOP.CFG, and the installation is
complete.
Congratulations!! Software COP is now installed!! You are ready to wrap the programs that you would
like to protect!
Software COP Usage
Using the Software COP menu system is trivial. Simply use the arrow keys to move
around the different menu items, and hit <Enter> to make the selection. <Esc> or <Left>
can be used to move backwards in the menu scheme.
MANAGE APPLICATION
Under this menu item, software metering management is made easy. GSS files can be
created and altered with the EDIT GSS FILE menu selection, and the wrapper can be
installed for the desired program with WRAP APPLICATION.
* EDIT GSS FILE
The GSS file contains the information that the wrapper programs use to carry out the
wishes of the LAN administrator. It is recommended that the GSS files be edited
with the Software COP administration program only and not by hand unless the
section in Appendix A has been thoroughly read and understood.
After the EDIT GSS FILE menu item has been selected, a file dialog box with a
directory structure will appear. Select [DRIVES] to go to the file server on which the
program to be metered is located. Once inside the desired file serve