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Request for license | A request made by a user to obtain a particular software license. | ||||||
Borrow | A type of license usage that allows a user to use a network license without being connected to the license server. | ||||||
Usage | Refers to the use of a license, which means that the license is taken from a pool of available licenses. A user can use two licenses of the same feature, as shown below. Users Using License | ||||||
Denial | The denial of a request for a license. | ||||||
Monitoring | Gathering realtime information from a particular license server about feature usage details. | ||||||
Importing | Gathering information from a license server log file about feature usage details. | ||||||
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Software | An application. | ||||||
Log file | One or more ASCII text files written by a license server. | ||||||
License | License for particular software. | ||||||
| The definition of a license. The parts of a feature are:
As shown in the diagram below, a feature is defined by its name, version and type. There can be multiple versions with the same name, but each version can have only three license types: nodelocked, floating, or token. Although the features may share the same name, each feature with a different version and/or type is an individual, unique feature. Feature
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License manager | A solution that provides the ability to manage licenses. | ||||||
User | An application or person that requests a license. | ||||||
Host | The computer on which a user is accessing a license. A user can use a feature on more than one host, and a host can be used by more than one user, as shown below. User on Hosts | ||||||
| Software hosting licenses for a single software vendor. A license server can be one of the following:
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Vendor | The manufacturer of a software application using a particular license manager. | ||||||
Gathering Type | The license server type (Realtime or Imported). | ||||||
| A value (number of minutes) specified for how often feature usage data is gathered for a monitored license server. | ||||||
Linux system | Refers to Linux32 or Linux64 platform. | ||||||
Windows system | Refers to Win32 or Win64 platform. |
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