Managing Reservations
Important:You can use either reservations or partitions. Reservations and partitions cannot coexist alongside each other. For more information, see Partitions vs. Reservations. For general information about partitions, see Feature Partitions.
The FlexNet Embedded local license server supports the use of license reservations as a way to pre-allocate licenses to client devices or users to help ensure that these entities have access to the licenses they need.
The reservations you post to the license server are ordered in a hierarchy, enabling more granularity in managing them. For example, reservation entries are the actual feature reservations that you define for a reservation, which specifies the hostid for the specific client device or user to which the feature reservations apply. One or more reservations are assigned to a reservation group, which represents a more global entity to which the client devices and users identified by the reservations belong. This group might identify a department, a specific job role assigned to employees within the company, a physical location, or any other entity applicable to your company. This hierarchy enables you to view, add, or delete reservations at the group level, the reservation (hostid) level, or the reservation entry (feature) level.
For more information about the setup and use of reservations on the license server, see License Reservations in the More About License Server Functionality
The following sections describe how to perform tasks to manage reservations:
| • | Add Reservations |
| • | View Reservations |
| • | Back Up Reservation Information to a File |
| • | Delete Reservations |
If administrative security is enabled on the license server, you might need to provide authorization credentials to perform operations described in this section. For more information, see Use Credentials to Access Operations.