Overview of Reservation Types

The FlexNet Embedded license server supports two types of license reservations—device-based and user-based.

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A device-based reservation is assigned to the unique hostid identifying the client device on which the software producer’s product is running.

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A user-based reservation is assigned to a unique user ID (also called a hostid). A user with reserved counts for a feature can access these counts from any client device. Thus, user-based reservations help to ensure that users who always need access to certain licenses can obtain them from any client device. (For example, users might need to access their licensed application from their laptop, tablet, or phone.)

For information about how the license server processes reservations to satisfy the feature count specified in a capability request, see Processing the Capability Request When Reservations Are Used.

Note:A user-based reservation reserves feature counts exclusively for a given user, who can obtain partial counts of the reservation across multiple client devices. However, these feature counts are ultimately served to and returned from—and thus bound to—the client device from which they were requested.

Reservation Setup

When setting up a license reservation on the license server, you must provide a hostid to identify the entity—client device or user—to which the reservation belongs. Obtain from the producer the specific hostid types (for example, ETHERNET, STRING, USER, or other) that you can use to define a device-based or user-based reservation. See Managing Reservations for more information about setting up reservations.