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License Manager Fault Tolerance

License Manager Fault Tolerance

License Manager Fault Tolerance

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Greetings all,
I'm planning a deployment of about 50 network seats for use by
employees in my company's branch offices. I'm torn between using a
single license server central to all of the offices accessible via VPN
over the WAN or breaking up the pool of licenses to several license
managers in the branches. I'd like to keep all of the licenses in
place, however if I experience an interruption in connectivity, I don't
want my users to be SOL. Any advice from those who have been through
this?
Thanks in advance!
-Jay

RE: License Manager Fault Tolerance

If you are across a wan, I would not recommend it. Can you set up a license server at each location? We do that at our various locations. We purchase and maintain the licenses separately. We get pricing based on total usage, but still have separate licenses. We get glitches even with a local licensing, I would not even attempt a WAN licensing scheme. My two cents.

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers

RE: License Manager Fault Tolerance

(OP)
That's the direction that I'm leaning.  I'm thinking that if I put a license server in each branch, those branch employees will always have access to their local server.  I can then set environment variables such that their machines will look to other office servers when they can't get licenses locally.  I'd still like to attempt a centralized solution but downtime is my enemy.....

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