Specifications

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Chapter 3 - Setting up Redundant License Servers and License Balancing
pool can take over for any other if one of the license servers goes down. Each
license server runs on a separate computer on the network.
Imagine a wide-area network serving three basic groups of end users: the Sales
Department, the Engineering Department, and the Accounting Department.
Computers on this network might be in the same building, or might be in
different cities or countries. You have a license code that permits 60 instances of
a word processing application to run. (We say that the license code authorizes 60
licenses or that it has 60 tokens.)
The diagram below shows one possible configuration. You select three
computers on the network and install a license server on each. Typically, each
license server computer is on the same subnet as the majority of the end users
that will acquire licenses from it. (However, each license server may be on a
different subnet.) For example, the Sales Departments’ computer is in the same
building as the Sales employees, on the same part of the network used by those
employees. This optimizes license management performance by speeding up
license acquisition.