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Chapter 8Mobile Licensing 8
End users often want to use applications on computers that do not have a continuous connection
to a FLEXnet license server system. These situations include:
• Working on a laptop
• Using a computer both at work and at home
• Working from several different computers not connected to a license server system
FLEXnet Licensing supports licenses that allow one of several kinds of mobile licensing:
• Node-locked to a laptop
• Node-locked to a FLEXid (Windows only)
• Node-locked to a FLEXid with FLOAT_OK keyword (Windows only)
• License borrowing with BORROW keyword
• Node-locked to a user name
• Fulfilled from a prepaid license pool
License rehosting is the consequence of an end user wanting to move a license without using
one of these methods. This means a new node-locked license file is generated by the vendor for
each new client computer. Rehosting incurs administrative overhead because the vendor is
involved for each move.
Node-Locked to a Laptop Computer
If a license is to be used exclusively on one laptop computer, that license is simply node-locked
to an address associated with that computer. The license file resides on the laptop computer.
Node-locked to a FLEXid (Windows Only)
If a license is to be moved between different Windows machines, it is node-locked to a FLEXid
(a dongle that connects to a parallel or USB port). This license is moved between machines by
installing a copy of the license file on each machine and moving the FLEXid from one machine
to another. Since the license is tied to the FLEXid, only the machine with the FLEXid has use
of the license.