License management

[mudassirkhan]

We are a group of 5 people working in the design team of a multinational organization. We have 3 local


licences and 25 global licences of pro/engineer. Presently the 3 licences are installed on three different


machines. These licences are used by 5 persons as per their requirements. Now we are in the process of


purchasing a server and we are planning to install all these 3 licences on that server.
I would like to know how to handle these 3 licences to obtain optimum work performance or what is the best


way to manage these licences.

 

[acook]

Hey mudassirkhan,

I am not sure what you mean by "Presently the 3 licences are installed on three different
machines. These licences are used by 5 persons as per their requirements.". However, I will assume that three machines have 3 local node-locked license files on them. If this is the case, you cannot use these existing licenses in conjunction with the license server (I am assuming you want to use a single license server on your new server to check out and manage licenses). You will need floating (node-locked or non-node locked) licenses for these 3 machines in the same way you have 25 global (I am assuming floating) licenses. There is a different pricing scheme for local node-locked and floating licenses. Contact your vendor concerning this.

I have not dealt with this situation (changing from local node-locked to license servers) since ProE R19 or 2000, so this may have changed. I would just contact your vendor.

The most "efficient" way to manage the licenses is using a single license server for all machines.

Otherwise you could place the local node-locked licenses on the server and have the 3 workstations contain a mapped drive to the license file. Then you can manage the license files from the server without haveing to worry about the individual workstations.

Hope this helps.