RE: [fme] FME Floating License

Bryan Waller Mon, 09 Jan 2006 07:50:13 -0800

Excellent!

Thanks Jason!

Bryan

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From: Jason Birch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: January 6, 2006 4:53 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [fme] FME Floating License

Yes :)

Floating license management is fairly flexible. Have a look at the Macrovision guide:

http://www.macrovision.com/services/support/flexlm/enduser.pdf

(the version that Safe distributes is older than this guide, not all features may be supported)

Basically, you just have to set up a safe.opt file in the same directory as your license file and then add directives like the following. IP addresses can be used anywhere a host name can be used. I use this to ensure that my production server always has a license for its critical nightly batch jobs.

# General Settings

# Time out idle licenses after 12 hours
TIMEOUTALL 43200

# Set up Licence Allocations

# Set Dedicated Network Licences groups
GROUP IT_USERS JBirch jbirch KKennedy kkennedy JBirch jbirch BCrockett bcrockett Casper casper Administrator administrator
GROUP ENG_USERS TTaylor ttaylor JRogers jrogers KBarg kbarg CBlouin cblouin
HOST_GROUP IT_SERVERS king

# Reserve the dedicated licences
RESERVE 1 FME GROUP IT_USERS
RESERVE 1 FME GROUP ENG_USERS
RESERVE 1 FME HOST_GROUP IT_SERVERS

Jason

From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan Waller
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 3:27 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [fme] FME Floating License

Hello Group,

Here is a question that seems kind of silly at first.

Is it possible to assign floating licenses to certain users within a network? (I know, it sounds like a static license, doesn’t it?)

We have a small group of GIS people who use FME for large parts of the day and a large group of non-GIS people using a small application with FME integrated into it. I need to ensure that the GIS professionals always have access to an FME license or two and everyone else only has access to 1 license at any one time. Can the licenses be assigned to banks of IP addresses or will I have to build something into the non-GIS professional application that checks to see if anyone else is using a license.

Kind of confusing, but does anyone have any suggestions.

Thanks in advance.