FlexNet Publisher License Administration Guide
This guide describes FlexNet Publisher licensing for license administrators. It describes how to set up and administer FlexNet Publisher licensing for license models that require a license server.
In this document, “you” generally refers to the license administrator.
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An overview of the contents of this document. |
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Overview of licensing and specifically licensing using license files. |
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An overview of licensing using license rights held in trusted storage. |
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A description of the elements in a license file. |
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How to locate licenses so that they are available to FlexEnabled applications. |
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Modifying license files. |
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Details of hostids available by platform and information about choosing an Ethernet address as hostid. |
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Overview of basic license models and methods of licensing for laptops that may be provided by your software publisher. |
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What to consider when selecting the machine on which to install the license server software. |
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Description of how to install and use lmadmin as your license server. |
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How to use lmgrd as your license server. |
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A comparison of lmgrd and lmadmin. |
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How to use license administration tools to manage licenses and license servers. |
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Using the options file to control license utilization and the license server. |
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Methods of providing failover protection for license servers. |
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Managing Virtualized License Servers for File-Based Licensing |
Virtualization of a license server. |
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Setup of licensing model in an Amazon EC2 environment. |
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Installing and configuring license servers in IPv6 and mixed IPv4 and IPv6 environments. |
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Strategies for managing licenses from multiple software publishers. |
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Tips and information about generating additional diagnostic data. |
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A list of FlexNet Publisher error codes. |
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Enabling and managing report log output. |
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Enabling and managing debug log output. |
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Version compatibility between components and brief details of functional changes for each major version of FlexNet Publisher. |
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Environmental variables that may be used with FlexNet Publisher. |