Specifications

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3Chapter 3 - Setting up
Redundant License Servers and
License Balancing
Redundant license servers and license balancing offer several important benefits
to the network administrator:
• Your end users can acquire license tokens even if a particular license
server goes down (license server backup).
• The speed with which an end user acquires a license token is optimized
by distributing tokens among multiple license servers to reduce the
traffic for a particular license server (license balancing).
The network administrator can initially allocate license tokens among
multiple license servers, and SentinelLM will, over time, adjust the
allocations to the optimal pattern based on actual license use.
This chapter gives an overview of redundant license servers and license
balancing, discusses how to set up a redundant license server pool, and contains
information on the utilities the network administrator can use to maintain the
license server pool.
Overview of License Balancing and Redundant License Servers
The method by which SentinelLM implements license balancing and license
server backup is by using redundant license servers. All of the redundant license
servers at your site form a license server pool. Each of the license servers in the