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1. Log into the administrative area of LAC.
2. Add a license generator.
3. Add a product and product features.
4. Create templates for the product.
5. Add customers.
6. Create license orders using product templates.
7. Activate a license.

Logging into LAC

First, log into the administrative area of LAC by going to https://license.x-formation.com. From this page, log in by entering your username and password in the login box.

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Note: LAC does not support concurrent logins using the same user credentials. If a user logs into LAC using the same username and password as another user that is currently logged into LAC, the currently logged in user will be signed out of LAC automatically. (Users are also automatically signed out after 1 hour of idleness when using the UI or 3 hours of idleness using SOAP.)

Adding a license generator

You must define a license generator for each product you'll add to LAC. It's easiest to add the license generator before adding the product that will use it.

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1. Click the Administration tab at the top of the LAC web application page.
2. Click the License Generators tab in the Administration page. (Note that this page will display all license generators that currently exist in LAC, and you can edit values for existing license generators here at any time by clicking the Edit icon under the Action column.)
3. Under the Menu area, click Create License Generator. The Add License Generator dialog appears. 
4. For License Manager, select the license manager you will use for license generation. You can select LM-X License Manager, FlexNet Publisher, or Reprise License Manager. For this example, we'll use LM-X License Manager.
5. Enter an appropriate name for the license generator. For this example, we'll use xmllicgen Windows_x86.
6. If you selected FlexNet or Reprise as the License Manager in step 4, you must also enter the vendor/ISV daemon name, which defaults to "demo" for both these license manager types. This setting is not applicable to LM-X License Manager.
7. Select the platform for the license generator from the License Generator Platform selection list, for example "Windows (x86)".
8. To the right of the Executable field, click the "..." button to browse for and select the license generator executable (which for LM-X is xmllicgen.exe).
9. If you selected LM-X as the License Manager in step 4, you can browse for and select a configuration file in the LM-X Security Config File field. This is not normally needed, so we'll leave this blank for our example. This setting applies only to LM-X, and is not present for other license manager types. 
10. Note that the Command Line Parameters field shows the command-line parameters that will be used used to call the license generator executable. This field is view-only. 
11. The Optional Parameters field lets you enter additional parameters that are needed for calling the license generator executable. Normally, you don't need to enter anything in this field. However, if you need to set a flag for backward compatibility, for example, you can enter the flag here.  
12. Enter the extension you will use for license files generated using this license generator. By default, this is ".lic," but you can enter any string from 1 to 10 characters.
13. If desired, enter a description for the license generator in the Description field.
14. Click Save. The dialog closes and you return to the License Generators tab. The grid in this tab should now contain the license generator you just defined. For our example, the license generator is named "xmllicgen Windows_x86." 
15. Download the license generator by clicking the Download icon under the Action column.

Adding a product

In this section of the quick start, we'll add a new product to LAC called "Flagship," and select the license generator we created in the previous section to generate licenses for the Flagship product. We'll also add features and templates to the Flagship product.

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1. Under the Menu area in the Features tab, click Create Feature. The Add New Feature dialog opens.
2. In the General tab, enter F1 for the Feature Name.
3. Click Next to create the feature and continue to the Templates tab. 
   In the Templates tab, you will see that only the Default template is available to associate with the feature, because we haven't yet created any custom templates for the product. Features must be associated with at least one template, so we'll associate it with the Default template for now and customize the template in the next section.
4. Select Default and click Save. You return to the Features tab in the Create New Product dialog, where you now see feature F1 listed in the Features grid. 
5. Create another feature named F2 in the same way you created feature F1.
6. Click Next from the Features tab to open the Templates tab. We'll create customized templates to use for the product in the next section.

Creating templates for the product

Now, we'll create two templates for the product. All the template settings are default values that will be used to generate licenses for the product, and any setting can be changed when generating licenses. 

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We're done defining the product, the product features, and the templates associated with the product. 

Adding customers

Before you can generate a license for a customer, you must enter that customer into LAC. We'll add a couple of customers to LAC who will be purchasing our Flagship product.

To add a customer:

1. From the main LAC page, click the Customers tab.
2. Under Menu in the left sidebar, click Create Customer.
3. Enter ABC Enterprises for Customer Name. This is the only required information for adding the customer; all other information is optional.
4. Enter Corporate customer for the Description.
5. Click Next. The Contacts tab opens.
6. In the Contacts tab, select Create Contact. The Create New Contact dialog opens.
7. Enter Joe Biggs for Contact Name, and jbiggs@abcenterprises.com for Email.
8. Click Save to create the contact and exit the dialog.

Enter a second customer named "XYZ Ltd" in the same manner as above. This will be our Small Business customer. 

Creating license orders

Now that we've added customers into LAC, we can create license orders for those customers. Let's create a license order for our Corporate customer.

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If you like, create a license order for the Small Business customer in the same way you created the Corporate customer license, selecting XYZ Ltd as the customer and Small Business as the product template.

Activating a license

To let ABC Enterprises activate their license, you simply copy and paste the Activation Key from the License Orders table into an email with instructions on activating the license.

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