License Administration Guide - norsar

Chapter 16: Licensing in a Cloud-Computing EnvironmentHostids for BindingNote • Download lmbind from the Flexera Software website.9. On the virtual machine that hosts the license server, configure the environment variable LM_BINDING_AGENTport@host, where port is the TCP port number at which the binding agent is listening to (27010 in the aboveexample), and host is the fully qualified host name or IP address of the physical machine hosting lmbind.10. Launch the license server on the virtual machine by pointing to the license certificate.Hostids for BindingThe binding element used to bind a license to the specific AMI instance on which the license client or the licenceserver resides is called the hostid of the AMI instance. This section discusses the types of hostids that FlexNetPublisher supports for licensing in the Amazon EC2 environment.Supported Hostid TypesThe following table describes the hostids that FlexNet Publisher supports in the Amazon EC2 environment. Forinstructions on how to retrieve each hostid, see the next section, Retrieving and Specifying Hostids.Table 16-1 • Hostid Types Supported in Amazon EC2Hostid Type Binding Applicability CharacteristicsElastic IP (EIP)addressLicence server only • IPv4 format only.• For use only on the SERVER line in thelicense file.• Manually assigned to any running AMIinstance.• Static identity--that is, can be reassignedto another AMI instance if the currentinstance crashes. For example, if theinstance containing the license servercrashes, the license administrator cancopy the server to another instance andreassign the EIP.• Cross-version signatures not required.• Specific to Case 1: Traditional Served andUnserved Licensing in a Public Cloud.License Administration Guide FNP-11111-LAG01 197