Using a License Server With Trusted Storage

The following gives an outline of the steps in installing a license server and using it to serve licenses from trusted storage. For further information about each of these steps read the relevant sections of this document.

Choose the machine(s) on which the license server(s) will be installed.

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Determine the number of licenses and machines on which FlexEnabled applications will be installed. See Selecting a License Server Machine for further information.

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Consider what method, if any, you want to use to ensure that whenever possible licenses are available to your end users. See Ensuring License Availability for further information.

Install the license server components.

The publisher will supply a copy of his vendor daemon and instructions for installing it. The publisher also provides the license server manager (lmadmin or lmgrd). The latest license server manager, lmadmin, displays details of licenses held in trusted storage; lmgrd includes information about concurrent licenses held in trusted storage but does not display details of activatable licenses. Therefore, it is recommended that you install lmadmin as your license server manager.

Install licenses on the license server.

The publisher will supply instructions and software that requests licenses from the publisher server. This process may be completely transparent to you. The publisher provides the interface for the installation of licenses so publisher’s licensing solutions may differ greatly. FlexNet Publisher is designed to allow publishers maximum flexibility in licensing models and processes.

Install the FlexEnabled application on end user machines.

The publisher will supply installation instructions for installing the FlexEnabled application and optionally any further FlexEnabled components.

Set up end user machines to access the license server to obtain concurrent licenses.

There are several methods of configuring the end-user machine to access a single license server or multiple license servers. These depend on the contents of any license files that may optionally be supplied by the publisher and your license server(s) configuration. See information in Locating Licenses for instructions.

Optionally, create an options file.

If you want to limit license usage, configure logging or turn off the automatic reread of licenses, create an options file and install it in the same directory as the vendor daemon. See instructions in Managing the Options File.

Configure and start up the license server manager.

Optionally, install node-locked licenses on end user machines using activatable licenses from the license server.

The publisher will supply instructions for requesting licenses from the license server. Additional components may be installed on the end user machine for this licensing model, see Distribution of Node-Locked Licenses to Networked Machines.