To setup a floating license for License Statistics, you must configure and start the LM-X license server and correctly configure License Statistics.
- Configure the LM-X license server by specifying needed settings for your environment in the configuration file lmx-serv.cfg, which is located in the license directory. Be sure to correctly set the path to the license file in the LICENSE_FILE setting. See License Server Configuration file in the LM-X documentation.
- Start 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. See Installing a license server on Windows in the LM-X documentation.
- 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 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.
For such an example, assume we have a floating license for up to 100 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 = AUTODISCOVERY
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 = AUTODISCOVERY
LICENSE_TOTAL_USER_REALTIME = 80
LICENSE_TOTAL_SERVER_REALTIME = 8