User guide

Chapter 1 - Introduction and Overview
FLEXnet Licensing Components
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FLEXnet Licensing Components
FLEXnet Licensing components are organized based on the license model used by your
software vendor. License models are classified according to their requirement for a license
server system:
• Licenses are served by a license server system. This is commonly referred to as a served
license model. License files supplied by your software vendor that include SERVER,
VENDOR, and optionally, USER_SERVER lines require a license server system. See
“Served Licenses” for details.
• Licenses are not served by a license server system but are available directly to the
application. This is commonly referred to as an uncounted, or unserved license model. See
“Unserved Licenses” for details.
Served Licenses
For served licenses, there are four required FLEXnet Licensing components:
• The FLEXenabled Application , with the FLEXnet Licensing static client library linked
into it.
• The License Server Manager (lmgrd) .
• The Vendor Daemon , which, along with the license server manager,
lmgrd, comprises the
license server system.
• The License File .
In addition to these four FLEXnet Licensing components, there are three optional components:
• Debug Log File — created and written by
lmgrd.
• Report Log File — created and written by the vendor daemon for use by FLEXnet
Manager.
• End-User Administration Options File — file created and maintained by the end user.