For customers that run 'Production' and 'Disaster Recovery' environments the 3-server redundant failover licensing model is not appropriate. In this case the 3 servers must be able to see each other, so having them span the Prod and DR environments can't be done as typically these environments can't see each other.
What would be great is if FME Desktop could allow you in the license assistant to point at a primary and a secondary (failover) license server so that it could failover between them automatically if the primary production license server goes down. This would mean that one license server could sit in the Prod environment and the other in DR. This is clearly supported by FlexLM as ArcFM and ESRI (desktop applications) licence servers are FlexLM based and function in exactly this manner. There are some basic details here: http://support.esri.com/technical-article/000010729 but this has been inherent functionality within the ESRI licence server for some time.
I appreciate that FME Desktop is moving away from FlexLM but I'm informed that it may be far enough away to justify looking into the viability of this approach.
I'd be interested to hear the thoughts of the community and how you manage FME Desktop license failover aside from the above. Thanks, Dave
