Summary

This article explains how to specific users be defined to be allowed to use a license.

Question

How can specific users or groups of users be allowed or denied license usage?

Answer

This can be achieved by using the GROUP option within the Options File. The following is taken from the License Administration Guide:

GROUP
GROUP group_name user_list

Defines a group of users for use in INCLUDE, INCLUDEALL, INCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT, EXCLUDE, EXCLUDEALL, EXCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT, and RESERVE option lines.
group_name - Name of the group being defined. Group names are case sensitive.
user_list - List of user names in that group. Names are case sensitive and cannot contain spaces. Set the GROUPCASEINSENSITIVE options file keyword to turn on case insensitivity.

To create a large user group, define several GROUP lines each containing up to the maximum of 4,000 characters. All the users will be placed in a single group: Multiple GROUP lines for the same group name add all the specified
users into the group.

To define the group Hackers consisting of bob, howard, and james:

GROUP Hackers bob howard james