One System with One License Server and Multiple License Files

In this scenario, one license server manager runs on the system and serves one or more vendor daemons, each with one or more license files. If you are using lmadmin, you can maintain license files from different publishers in separate directories. If you are using lmgrd, all the license files are usually held in the same directory. The standard filename extension for license files is .lic. The number of vendor daemons is not limited by FlexNet Publisher. {Hyperlink}Figure {Default ¹ Font} illustrates this scenario.

One license server manager, multiple license files

Advantages

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The license files can be maintained separately.

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Reduced administrative overhead.

Disadvantages

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One license server manager serves all vendor daemons. If the license server manager goes down, all licenses are unavailable.

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If the system goes down, all licenses are unavailable.

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Output from all vendor daemons goes into one common debug log unless separate debug logs are specified with DEBUGLOG in each vendor daemon’s options file. Having one common debug log makes it harder to debug a single vendor daemon’s problem.

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Maximizes licensing load to one system and one license server manager.