User guide

Chapter 4 - Selecting Server Machines
Counted vs. Uncounted Licenses
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• License-file list is not limited to three servers (any number work).
• Clients do not require reliable networking to a single machine with license-file list, so this
is recommended where networking itself requires redundancy.
Counted vs. Uncounted Licenses
The license file determines whether a license server is needed. If all the FEATURE (or
INCREMENT) lines have a license count of 0 (unlimited) or “uncounted”, then no server is
needed. This type of license is called uncounted. Alternatively, if any FEATURE lines have a
non-zero license count, then a server is required to count those licenses. If a vendor wants to
use FLEXnet Licensing without a server, they must issue uncounted licenses.
The license server is able to serve uncounted licenses as well. This is done so that:
• transactions can be logged into the report log for all license requests, which can then be
reported on by SAMreport
• options file constraints can be applied to the licenses
To have uncounted licenses served, include a SERVER line in the license file, and put the
USE_SERVER line immediately after the SERVER line. The vendor daemon serves the
uncounted licenses, and the USE_SERVER line indicates to applications that requests must go
to the license server for authorization.
FLEXNET LICENSING VERSION NOTES
• “uncounted” keyword introduced in v6 FLEXnet Licensing client library.