User`s guide

Plan Your Network

Licensing

This section contains information that you need to know before you set up a network license

server. The section includes information about supported license server models, license

operation and availability, network license file definitions and parameters, license file examples,

license types and behaviors, and the license server heartbeat signal.

Plan Your License Server Configuration

You must decide which license server model to use for managing your Autodesk

product licenses on a server. Autodesk supports the following network license

server models:

■ Single license server model

■ Distributed license server model

■ Redundant license server model

Single License Server Model

In the single license server model, the Network License Manager is installed on

a single server, so license management and activity is restricted to this server.

A single license file represents the total number of licenses available on the

server.