Back Office Operations

In a FlexNet Embedded licensing environment, the back office is FlexNet Operations. FlexNet Operations stores product entitlements, manages activation IDs, and generates license data for FlexNet Embedded clients and license servers.

FlexNet License Server Manager interacts with FlexNet Operations to activate entitlements, retrieve license rights, and keep license state synchronized. These interactions are performed using capability requests and activation requests, which FlexNet Operations processes based on the entitlements configured for a customer.

Capability and Activation Requests in FlexNet Embedded

In FlexNet Embedded, activation requests and capability requests serve different roles in the licensing lifecycle. An activation request is used to initially activate an entitlement in FlexNet Operations by converting an activation ID into usable license rights for a specific device or license server. Once license rights have been activated, capability requests are used during normal operation to obtain, update, or use those rights by requesting specific features and counts from FlexNet Operations or a FlexNet Embedded license server. In short, activation requests create license rights, while capability requests consume or retrieve those rights for ongoing use.

Online and Offline Operations

FlexNet Operations supports both online and offline licensing operations, allowing FlexNet Embedded licensing to work in connected and disconnected environments.

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Online capability or activation requests are used when the client device or local license server has direct network access to FlexNet Operations.

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Offline capability or activation requests are designed for environments where the device or license server cannot directly communicate with FlexNet Operations.