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Installation Guide for CiscoNetwork Planning Solution
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Chapter1 Planning Yo ur 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 automat ically, "consuming" its
license continually. System administrators do not need a license to log in to and operate the system.