Managing Licenses from Multiple Software Publishers

Overview of Multiple License Management Strategies

When you are running FlexEnabled applications from multiple software publishers, you might need to take steps to prevent conflicts during installation. There are several strategies to accomplish this, three of which are presented here:

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Multiple systems, each running one license server manager, one vendor daemon, and using one or more license files.

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One system running multiple license server managers, each managing one vendor daemon and one or more license files.

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One system running one license server manager, that manages multiple vendor daemons, each using its own license files. License files share a common directory.

Each of these three strategies is described in detail in the following sections. Variations are mentioned in Additional Considerations.