LM-X License Manager supports license borrowing, which lets you use a network license without being connected to the license server. Borrowing is commonly used in cases such as taking a laptop computer home for the weekend or for traveling off-site, giving you access to the software when a connection to the network is not possible.
Your software vendor must allow license borrowing for it to be available for your use. In some cases, the vendor may supply an interface for borrowing or returning licenses. Otherwise, you can borrow and do an early return of licenses by setting an LM-X environment variable specifically for this purpose.
Use the following steps to borrow a license using an LM-X environment variable. (Instructions given for accessing environment variable settings are for Windows 7. Please see your OS documentation or your system administrator for instructions on editing environment variables for your specific OS.)
Note: You can query the server to see whether a license is borrowed at any time using the LM-X End-user Configuration Tool or LM-X End-user utility, lmxendutil.
In very rare cases, the client may not receive a borrowed license due to network problems that occur at the exact time a license is being borrowed. Because borrowing is not transaction based, the server may see the borrow as successful and will not allow the client to attempt another borrow. Instead, a second borrow request will fail with the message "Feature already borrowed on server." The client must then wait until the borrow time expires to successfully borrow a license if this network problem occurs.