User guide

FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide 11
Chapter 1Introduction and Overview 1
This chapter explains the basics of floating (network) licensing and gives a quick overview of
the FLEXnet Licensing components. It explains where license administrators have control and
where end users have control. “Getting Started Checklist” tells both license administrators and
end users how to start managing FLEXnet Licensing.
Introduction to FLEXnet Licensing
FLEXnet Licensing is a member of the FLEXnet Publisher family of products. It is the most
popular licensing system used in the software industry. FLEXnet Licensing is best known for
its ability to allow software licenses to be available (or float) anywhere on a network, instead
of being tied to specific machines. Floating licensing benefits both users and license
administrators. Users make more efficient use of fewer licenses by sharing them on the
network. License administrators control who uses the FLEXenabled application and the
machine(s) where the licenses are available. See “Types of License Files” for details about the
different licensing models supported by FLEXnet Licensing.
How to Use This Manual
This manual is written for two different audiences:
• Administrators of FLEXnet licenses and license server systems
• End users of FLEXenabled applications
License Administrator
If you are a license administrator, read these chapters:
Chapter: Explains:
Preface Overview of this manual.
Chapter 1, “Introduction and
Overview”
FLEXnet Licensing basics: license server manager
and vendor daemons; the license file; configuring
FLEXnet Licensing; the license request process.