Token-based licensing lets you specify that a particular feature should use one or more other licenses to fulfill checkout requests. Token-based licensing applies only to network licenses.
A token-based license is a pointer, or reference, to a real license. This enables you to specify any number of individual token-based licenses that make use of the same real license.
When the license server gets a request for a token-based license, it uses one or more other licenses (as specified in the license file) to fill the request, rather than directly using a license for the originally requested feature. The feature that is used to allow the checkout is referred to as a token dependency.
When a normal network license is checked out, the license appears in the license file with a count. For example:
| Code Block | ||
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FEATURE MyFeatureA |
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{ |
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VENDOR = MyCompany |
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COUNT = 5 |
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KEYTYPE = EXCLUSIVE |
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MAJOR_VERSION = 1 |
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MINOR_VERSION = 0 |
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... |
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} |
However, when a token-based license is checked out, it appears in the license file without a count, and instead includes a dependency on one or more other features that are used to allow the checkout. For example:
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FEATURE MyFeatureB |
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{ |
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VENDOR = MyCompany |
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KEYTYPE = TOKEN |
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MAJOR_VERSION = 1 |
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MINOR_VERSION = 5 |
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TOKEN_DEPENDENCY = "FEATURE=MyFeatureA VERSION=1.0 COUNT=5" |
...
... |
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} |