Cisco Systems 78-17023-01 manual Selecting the License Type, Floating Mode

Chapter 1 Planning Your Installation

Product Licensing

Selecting the License Type

When you install a component program, the installer asks you to specify the licensing mode. The options are:

•Floating/Local (“Floating: serve licenses from this computer”)—If you select this option, the program will request a license from a License Server running on the local computer.

•Floating/Remote (“Floating: access licenses from remote server”)—If you select this option, the program will request a license from a License Server running on a remote computer. (The installer also prompts you for the hostname of the remote server.)

Floating mode enables multiple users to share a license for Design and Analysis. The following section describes Floating mode in more detail.

•Standalone—This mode is available for Design and Analysis only. If you select this option, the installed license is restricted to the local computer and the program can be run on that computer only. (In essence, the program acts as its own License Server.) Select this option only if you want to restrict the use of Design and Analysis to one computer.

Floating Mode

Floating mode enables multiple users to share a license for Design and Analysis. On startup, the program communicates with the License Server automatically and “checks out” a license. When the program closes, it returns the license to the License Server. Then the license is available for another Design and Analysis user to start the program and check out the license. In Floating mode, the license is not “node-locked,” but can “float” to different computers.

Note Multiple users cannot share the same Design and Analysis license concurrently. Multiple concurrent Design and Analysis sessions require an equivalent number of program licenses.

Although the Virtual Network Data Server license server must use Floating mode, its license is not shared among multiple users. The Virtual Network Data Server operates automatically, "consuming" its license continually. System administrators do not need a license to log in to and operate the system.

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