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The information on this page refers to License Statistics v4.2 or newer, which added support for floating licenses.

To setup a floating license for License Statistics, you must configure and start the LM-X license server using the lmx-enduser-tools installer (included with the License Statistics distribution and located in the license directory) and correctly configure License Statistics.

  1. After installation of the LM-X end user tools and license server, set the path to the License Statistics license file. (The path should be specified in the LICENSE_FILE setting as described in License Server Configuration file in the LM-X End Users Guide.)
  2. Start/restart the LM-X license server. For Windows, after verifying that your setup is working, the LM-X server should be installed as a service, so it starts automatically on Windows restart.
  3. In the License Statistics configuration file, xflicstat.cfg, set the LM-X license server port (optional) and hostname in the LICENSE_PATH setting. Alternatively, you can use automatic server discovery by setting LICENSE_PATH = AUTODISCOVERY. Optionally, you can set the license limits in the "License limits (floating licensing)" section.
  4. Copy licstat.lic under lmxlicense server directory.
  5. Start/restart License Statistics.
  6. Optionally, you can split one license into two or more licenses. This is useful when you want to have multiple instances of License Statistics; for example, one for production and one for testing purposes. In such a case, multiple instances of License Statistics are installed and configured separately, but share the license limitations (i.e., allowed number of users and hosts) of a single floating license. 

    For example, assume we have a floating license for up to 200 users and 10 servers for both realtime usage and imported usage. For the test installation, we will set the user and server limits to 20 users and 2 servers for realtime monitoring and disable the import license. The settings you would make in the configuration file for this scenario are as follows. 

    For the test installation:

    LICENSE_PATH = @your-LM-X-machine 
    LICENSE_TOTAL_USER_REALTIME = 20 
    LICENSE_TOTAL_SERVER_REALTIME = 2 
    LICENSE_TOTAL_USER_IMPORT = 0 
    LICENSE_TOTAL_SERVER_IMPORT = 0

    For the production installation: 

    LICENSE_PATH = @your-LM-X-machine 
    LICENSE_TOTAL_USER_REALTIME = 180 
    LICENSE_TOTAL_SERVER_REALTIME = 8
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