License Management

The Nuance License Management solution (NLM) has the following main components:

• The stand-alone Nuance Central Licensing Service (NCLS) running as a Windows service
  Required for Developer licensing and Page Based licensing schemes; also used for standalone runtime licensing of Form Template Editor (FTE) and Document Classifier Assistant (DCA) utilities
• Nuance Central Licensing Tool (NCLT) stand-alone utility
  Required for Developer licensing and Page Based licensing schemes; also used for standalone runtime licensing of Form Template Editor (FTE) and Document Classifier Assistant (DCA) utilities
• OmniPage License Manager (OPLicMgr.exe and OPLicMgr_s.exe) command-line tool
  Required for Desktop Runtime Fixed Volume licensing
• License key (or Serial Number): A 22-character string that you receive in an email from Nuance Fulfillment regarding your order. This license key is used to download and activate a license on the target machine.
• License files
  • .lcx: a single license always contains only one license either in activated or non-activated form
  • .lcxz: packed license set, may contain more than one licenses;
  • .lcxp: license package file; may contain more than one licenses and other information to facilitate manual download and license move
• NLCL.cfg file
  Required for Central Licensing schemes and other special configuration tasks

Both NCLT and OPLicMgr facilitate the following actions:

• The retrieval and/or loading of license files
• Activating licenses either directly or through a Nuance web page from another machine
• De-activating licenses in order to move them to other computers or to save before a major hardware upgrade
• Checking the available licensed features etc.