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”.

Available if the option Limit Binding Break Repairs for License Server is selected. Sets the maximum number of times the local license server is allowed to repair a binding break. If set to 0, no binding break repairs are allowed. The local license server will cease to serve licenses if the number of binding break repairs exceeds the maximum number of allowed repairs, and no further repairs are allowed.

Default: 3

When selected, allows the removal or reduction of metered features from a license server instance in the FlexNet Cloud Licensing Service.

Default: Unselected.

When selected, FlexNet Operations consolidates the licenses that contain multiple line items for the same feature if the following entities are identical for all line items:

Selecting this option may help improve the local license server’s performance.

Default: Unselected.

Note:When using the option Consolidate Licenses, the option Enable feature count aggregation (under System > Configure > FlexNet Operations > Embedded Device Settings) must be unselected.

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 their respective hexadecimal values. For example, the device name Test^BName will be saved as TestName.

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

Examples for Control Characters and their referenced hexadecimal values:

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

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

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.