Deciding License Token Sharing

Shared licenses allow multiple invocations of a licensed application to share the same license or licenses. If license sharing is enabled, the License Manager determines whether an authorization has already been granted to a requesting application and, if so, it issues the existing authorization to use the license to the new requestor. You can specify additional limits on how many copies of your software can share a single license. Further license requests will be honored only if more license tokens are available on the License Manager.

NOTE   License sharing is available for network licensing only.

The License Sharing Criteria

The license sharing criteria identify which client-related information the License Manager must consider determining the eligibility of a new client to share a license already issued to an existing client. Licenses can be shared based on:

>User name

>Host name of the computer from which the requests originate

>X-display ID

>Vendor-defined shared ID

The License Manager will use that ID to determine whether an active license was already issued to any other application with the same shared ID. Each application has complete flexibility in computing its shared ID.