Supporting Redundancy

The FLEXlm license manager supports two configurations that increase server availability. You can have up to three license servers serving a redundant-server license. If one server goes down, users can obtain TotalView licenses from another.

If you support several sites interconnected on a TCP/IP network, each site can have its own server and license file. Users can configure their LM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable to include license files that refer to servers at the other sites so that a license service is always available.

If you will have redundant servers, you must set up each server as described in Installing a Regular License. In addition, when you order a regular license, you must include the output from the toolworks_hostid script for each server.