I had a conversation today with an IT manager that has 60 floating licenses with users distributed in 6 sites, all working on the same network. Guess what is the configuration...
Sure, 6 flexlm license managers, one for each site. Each user can only access the dedicated licenses on his site. Can you believe that?
I think the reason that organizations use this configuration is that the license manager do not supply the tools the user need in order to manage the licenses. When you have ten license for a site you can walk to a user workstation, log him out and release the license. When you are on the WAN it's a real problem.
I recommended this organization to put all the licenses on one floating license manager and use OpenLM to help system managers in management tasks.
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