Floating (Concurrent) Licenses

A floating license means anyone on the network can use the FlexEnabled application, up to the limit specified in the license file or fulfillment record (also referred to as concurrent usage or network licensing). Floating licenses have no hostids on the individual FEATURE lines. Floating licenses requires a license server manager and a vendor daemon to be running to count the concurrent usage of the licenses.

An example of a license file that provides floating licenses is:

SERVER lulu 17007ea8

VENDOR sampled

FEATURE f1 sampled 1.00 31-dec-2020 2 SIGN=”<...>”

FEATURE f2 sampled 1.00 31-dec-2020 6 SIGN=”<...>”

FEATURE f3 sampled 1.00 31-dec-2020 1 SIGN=”<...>”

This license file specifies that two licenses for feature f1, six licenses for feature f2, and one license for feature f3 are available anywhere on the network that can access the license server, called lulu. The license server manager uses one of the default TCP/IP ports.

The equivalent floating licenses are held in trusted storage as a fulfillment record that contains the same FEATURE lines as in the license file without any SERVER or VENDOR lines.