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:

• Working on a laptop
• Using a computer both at work and at home
• Working from several different computers not connected to a license server

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

• Node-Locked to a Laptop Computer
• Node-locked to a FlexNet ID Dongle
• Node-Locked to a FlexNet ID Dongle with FLOAT_OK
• License Borrowing with BORROW
• Node-locked to a User Name
• Fulfilled from a Prepaid License Pool
• License Transferring Using the Transferrable Counted Model—Windows Only
• 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.