This guide gives you an introduction to protecting your application using LM-X License Manager. The topics included here are described in more detail in the LM-X End Users Guide and the LM-X Developers Manual, which also includes more advanced topics and the complete API specification.

The steps to complete before your LM-X protected application can be run by end users include:

1. Download the LM-X SDK distribution
2. Install the LM-X SDK.
3. Define a license policy by creating an XML license template
4. Integrate LM-X with your application using the LM-X API.
5. Distribute protected software to your end users.
6. When needed, enable license activation.

Each of these steps is described in the following sections.