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Chapter 3Managing Licenses from Multiple Vendors 3
Since more than 2500 vendors have chosen FLEXnet Licensing for their licensing
management, chances are good that you have to administer FLEXnet Licensing licenses from
more than one vendor.
Overview of Multiple License Management Strategies
When you are running FLEXenabled products from multiple vendors, you may need to take
steps to prevent licensing conflicts during installation. There are several strategies to
accomplish this, of which three are presented here:
• Multiple machines, each running one
lmgrd, one vendor daemon, and using one license
file.
• One license server machine running multiple
lmgrds, each of which running one vendor
daemon and using one license file.
• One license server machine running one
lmgrd, multiple vendor daemons each of which
using its own license file. License files share a common directory.
These strategies are ordered from most to least independence among vendors. In the first option
mentioned above, you have the most license server machines to monitor; in the third option you
have only one server and one license file to administer. Each of these three strategies is
described in detail in the following sections. Variations are mentioned in “Additional
Considerations.”