User guide

Chapter 8 - Mobile Licensing
Node-locked to a User Name
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FLEXNET LICENSING VERSION NOTES
• BORROW keyword introduced in v8.0 client library, license manager daemon, and vendor
daemon. All components must be v8.0+ in order to use BORROW.
Node-locked to a User Name
If a license is to be used exclusively by one user on different machines, that license can be node-
locked to the user’s user name. The license file is copied to the different machines on which the
user might work; the user’s user name must be identical on each machine. For this method to
be useful, individual user names in an organization need to be unique.
Fulfilled from a Prepaid License Pool
In this method, the end user buys a prepaid number of license-days from the vendor. The end
user can then fulfill a license using a partial amount of the total license-days for the given
borrow period, node-locked to a particular machine. For example, in preparation for a business
trip (or even during a business trip), the end user fulfills a license that expires in 5 days that is
node-locked to their laptop. Each fulfillment can be node-locked to a different machine (or even
multiple times to the same machine), thus allowing mobility of license usage within the pre-
paid number of license-days.
This model is like pay-per-use because each fulfillment is made from a decreasing number
license-days. It is different than other pay-per-use models because, once node-locked to a
machine, that machine is allowed unlimited use of the application until the license expires. This
short-term license cannot be returned early; once fulfilled, those license-days cannot be
refunded. Other pay-per-use models charge based on the number of times the application is
used.