A policy in a License Certificate object.
A “hard stop” policy informs users that they are out of compliance with the terms and conditions of the license agreement. A hard stop prevents users from accessing a license unit. The hard stop could result from all available license units already being in use.
NOTE:NLS is a service. The terms and conditions of your license agreement determine how the product is to be used.
A “soft stop” policy informs users that they are out of compliance but allows them to continue using license units under certain conditions.
A “no stop” policy ignores situations in which no license units are available. NLS keeps track of the overage by logging the noncompliance, but does not inform or warn the user.
Scenario: You install licenses for 25 users. All 25 license units are in use when the 26th user attempts to log in. Because no license units are available, the user is not granted network access.
Solution: To allow the 26th user to log in to the network, you must install additional licenses or release a license that is currently in use. Releasing a license that is in use revokes network access for the User object that had the license, the next time the user attempts to log in.