Mobile Licensing

End users often want to use applications on computers that do not have a continuous connection to a license server. These situations include:

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Working on a laptop

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Using a computer both at work and at home

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Working from several different computers not connected to a license server

FlexNet Publisher supports licenses that allow one of several kinds of mobile licensing:

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Node-locked to a laptop

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Node-locked to a FlexNet ID dongle

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Node-locked to a FlexNet ID dongle with FLOAT_OK keyword

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License borrowing with BORROW keyword

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Node-locked to a user name

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Fulfilled from a prepaid license pool

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Optionally when provided by the publisher, Distribution of Node-Locked Licenses to Networked Machines using trusted storage can be used.

You should use license rehosting if an enterprise wants to move a license without using one of these methods. The software publisher must generate a new node-locked license file for each new client computer. Rehosting requires administrative overhead because the software publisher must be involved with each move.