Ensuring License Availability
You can configure multiple license servers to allow FlexEnabled applications to continue to check out licenses if one of the license servers goes down. This failover protection for license servers can be provided using either of the following methods:
| • | Redundancy using the license search path—Configure and maintain multiple independent license servers, each with a subset of the total licenses available to the enterprise. Configure the FlexEnabled client with the license servers in the license search path. This provides load balancing capabilities and limited failover protection. You must manage different versions of the license rights on each license server. This configuration option is available when licenses are held in license files and in trusted storage. |
| • | Three-server redundancy—Configure and maintain a set of three license server systems configured specifically for three-server redundancy. This provides failover protection only. You manage only one version of the license file and vendor daemon on all three license servers. This configuration option is only available when licenses are held in license files. |
Do not store your license files on a single network file server (separate from the license servers) if you are using either of these methods of failover protection: The failure of the file server will cause all the license servers to fail.