Configuring Embedded Devices Settings

The default host type FlexNet Operations uses when creating an unknown server device from a request, if the request does not specify a host type. This value is also used when claiming a server device from the End-User Portal, if not supplied by the request, the portal UI, or a call-out. Default: FLX_SERVER.

Use this option to select which of the normally supported host ID types should be excluded from the choices presented when editing the allowed ID types for a host type that supports servers.

Select to allow licenses with duration based features to have their copies reduced. Normally, licenses using durations only allow increasing the number of copies.

Immediately deduct the number of copies from the appropriate line item when a request to increase a host’s license copies is processed. If this option is not selected, the additional copies are not deducted until the license is generated.

Select to limit the number of times a local license server can repair a binding break. If selected, configure the number of allowed binding break repairs in Maximum Number of Binding Break Repairs Allowed for License Server. If unselected, unlimited binding break repairs are permitted.

Default: Unselected.

Note:This configuration option works in conjunction with the binding.break.policy in the producer-settings.xml file for the local license server. For more information, refer to the FlexNet Embedded License Server Producer Guide, section “Binding-Break Detection with Grace Period”.

When a device is activated and the activation date is equal to the current date in Pacific Standard Time (PST), the start date calculation logic applies a -1 day rollback. This is to compensate for timezones that are ahead of the database server time in PST.

Select this option if you do not want to apply a -1 day rollback to the start date.

Default: Unselected.

Important:Selecting this option affects the start date of a license. Consult Revenera support before selecting it. For example, without the -1 day rollback, a customer who activates a license on 27-Jan-2023 06:00pm PST, which is equivalent to 28-Jan-2023 2:00am GMT, can only start using the license the following day (27-Jan-2023 12:00am PST).

Select to allow served clients to have multiple parent license server instances concurrently. If selected, the Producer Portal and the End-User Portal show the multiple parent servers of served clients.

Default: Unselected.

When selected, FlexNet Operations does not remove non-printing characters (if used) from the “Device ID” and “Alias” fields in the capability request. As a side effect, the Devices page will not load as expected.

When this option is unselected, invalid characters in the “Device ID” and “Alias” fields in the capability request (such as ASCII control characters) are replaced with an empty string (for example, the device name Test^BName is saved as TestName).

The following control characters are invalid: ^B, ^D, ^E, ^G, ^N, ^O, ^P, ^Q, ^R, ^S, ^T, ^U, ^W, ^X, ^Y, ^[, ^\, ^]

Important:When an invalid character is used in the “Device ID” or “Alias” field and subsequently removed by FlexNet Operations, the license will not be processed by the FlexNet Embedded toolkit.

Default: Unselected.

Select to allow an unknown host to be added as a result of processing a capability request. An unknown server is added only if the capability request contains a valid activation ID. (To add a server when the request contains no activation ID, select Allow Server Without Activation IDs.)

Select to prohibit capability requests for hosts running on virtual machines. If this option is not selected (default), capability requests are served regardless of the machine type.

Select to invoke call-out just before creating an unknown host. Additional attributes can be defined before it is persisted. It can also be used to cancel creation of the new host instance.

Select to invoke call-out after an incoming host request has been validated, but before the capability response has been generated.

The default renew interval expressed as a percentage of the borrow interval, for features that do not specify an override. If set to zero (0), the renew interval is at the client discretion.

If selected, include the Start Date attribute in generated licenses for devices. Default: Selected.

When selected, no confirmation capability request is required when reducing the number of copies of a license.

When selected, no confirmation capability request is required for a producer when reducing the number of copies of a license for a specified product line.

You specify the product lines for which licenses can be reduced without requiring a confirmation in the Skip Confirmation column on the Package Products | Product Lines page (available under Products > Product Lines).

Default: Unselected.

When selected, sync messages and acknowledgments are recorded in the request history. By default, messages are recorded only in the host history, at debug log level.