License Properties Supported with Redundant Licenses
A redundant license is a network license that supports only certain license properties. The table below provides more information.
| Property | For a Redundant License |
|---|---|
| Standalone/Network/Repository |
Network license only. To use redundant licenses, your application can be linked with either the integrated or network library. |
| Long or Short-numeric |
Long A redundant network license cannot be in short numeric license format. |
| Trial or normal license |
Normal A redundant network license cannot be used as a trial license. |
| Grace period | Yes |
| License Locking |
Yes Use of server-locking is recommended. |
| Clock tamper detection enabled |
Yes |
| Capacity licensing |
No |
| VM detection flag | Yes |
| License commuting |
Yes You can use a redundant license for commuting purposes. However, the license authorization can only be checked out from the leader License Manager (and not from the followers). Similarly, the commuted token must be checked in to the same leader License Manager. |
| License sharing |
Yes. All the users sharing a token (as per the sharing criteria) must obtain the shared tokens from the same redundant License Manager pool. |
| License holding |
Yes |
| License revocation | Yes. See Revoking Redundant Licenses |
| License queuing |
Yes Since the license queues are attached to a particular License Manager, if a leader License Manager having a queue goes down, the queue is not transferred to the new leader License Manager, and requests in the queue are terminated. |
| Public vendor information |
Yes However, the vendor information (both public and private) should not exceed total of 395 characters. |
| Private vendor information | |
| License vendor information |
Yes License vendor information must not exceed 512 characters in length. |