Grants

Using the Grants Editor, you can specify grants for users, groups, and hosts. When you specify a grant, you must define certain attributes.

Producer grants may have been set up by the policy producer. Producer grants cannot be edited. Producer and user grants cannot be mixed within a single application that is controlled by Silk Meter. Currently Micro Focus does not provide policies with producer grants.

You can create grants that restrict application on hosts and users based on user/group management, timeframes, and the number of concurrent licenses. There are limitations, depending upon the application platform, as to what data is transferred as user and host name from the application. These limitations are described in the following table. If the client application supports user/password authentication and an empty user name is provided, Java applications will transfer the javauser constant as the user variable.

Operating System User Host
Windows OS login name OS hostname
Java OS login name (variable) or javauser (constant) OS hostname

You can use the user/group management information of the Silk Meter server to create grants. When using a group grant, you must provide one of the existing group names. The provided user name by the request is checked to confirm that it is included within a group that has a grant on that policy. If the name is included within an existing group, access is given.

When a license request is received by the server, the request is checked to determine if a policy exists that satisfies the request, including all grants applied to the policy. The following characteristics apply to grants:

  • Silk Meter groups are independent of Windows group management.
  • It is only possible to specify "allow" or "deny" grants for a policy.
  • During a grant check, Silk Meter first checks the user grant, then the group grant, and finally the host grant.
  • A user name that is not known on the Silk Meter server is treated as a "groupless" user.
  • If a request is satisfied by a user or host grant, then group "none" is logged and can be used for queries.