Multiple FlexNet license server hosts

This section applies to permanent licenses only. Read this section if you are interested in the various ways you can distribute your licenses. This is valuable if you are interested in having some form of backup in case of failure.

Although it is not necessary, you may want to understand how the FlexNet license server behaves prior to setting up your license server hosts.

If you are concerned about the reliability of your license server host, you can distribute the LSF licenses across multiple FlexNet license server hosts. If one license server host goes down, LSF will not lose all of the available licenses. There are two ways to configure multiple license server hosts:

  • Multiple license files with multiple license server hosts.

  • Single license file with three redundant license server hosts.