License Administration Guide - norsar

Chapter 1: Overview of LicensingLicense ServerThis document describes how to install and use a license server to provide licenses for FlexEnabled products thatuse served license models. The basic license model that requires a license server is referred to by several namesdepending on the context:• Concurrent• FloatingConcurrent licenses allow a fixed number of concurrent users to use licensed features at any one time. The licenseserver controls the use of these licenses, which are not normally locked to a specific machine, and float on thenetwork. FlexNet Publisher provides for many variations of this basic license model, for example the use of a set ofconcurrent licenses can be restricted to a group of users.License ServerThe basic components of a FlexNet Publisher license server are as illustrated in the following diagram:• License server manager - lmadmin (or lmgrd) supplied by your software supplier or available from FlexeraSoftware.• License file - Created by your software supplier. In this document the supplier of a FlexEnabled application isreferred to as the publisher.• Vendor daemon - Created by the publisher. Each publisher has their own vendor daemon. If you haveFlexEnabled applications from several publishers, you will need to install multiple vendor daemons.• Debug log - Written by the license server manager.Figure 1-1: FlexNet Publisher license server14 FNP-11111-LAG01 License Administration Guide