Working with pooling for floating licenses

Hi @fbulco,

If using FlexLM as licensing server, you can use a command line export the licenses usage, read it and see if it contains the information you need to merge with the AD users/groups

Hi Itay and followers,

At this moment everybody with fme desktop in our domain can access the license server with 10 floating esri licenses. We know the users and we are aware who is using the licenses.

I read the information on https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_Desktop_Admin_Guide/FMEInstallation/Restricting_Licenses_to_Users_or_Groups.htm

And one thing is confusing me:

Any licenses reserved for a user are dedicated to that user. Even when that user is not actively using the license, it is unavailable to other users.

So i was still wondering:

If you preserve for example 5 floating license esri edition to an AD group with 10 members. Then I hope that all the members of the AD group can request one of the 5 floating licenses and that the license use is released when they stop working with it. And that the same license are not available for not members of the AD group.

Is this correct?

Hi Itay and followers,

At this moment everybody with fme desktop in our domain can access the license server with 10 floating esri licenses. We know the users and we are aware who is using the licenses.

I read the information on https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_Desktop_Admin_Guide/FMEInstallation/Restricting_Licenses_to_Users_or_Groups.htm

And one thing is confusing me:

Any licenses reserved for a user are dedicated to that user. Even when that user is not actively using the license, it is unavailable to other users.

So i was still wondering:

If you preserve for example 5 floating license esri edition to an AD group with 10 members. Then I hope that all the members of the AD group can request one of the 5 floating licenses and that the license use is released when they stop working with it. And that the same license are not available for not members of the AD group.

Is this correct?

I honestly dont know, dont have much experience with this. Maybe somebody else can help @david_r, @daveatsafe?

Sounds like a case for Safe, I haven't really needed to play much with those settings.

Hi @fbulco

Unfortunately, there is no way to automatically add ActiveDirectory Group, you have to do that manually. The detailed instructions should be in Flexara License Administration.pdf document included with your floating license server manager.

The user names can be collected from safe.log file usually username@domain.com

• The option file should be named safe.opt
• File should be saved in same directory as lmgrd
• First Line should define GROUP followed by members of group (user names are case sensitive)
• Finally add INCLUDE INCLUDEALL or EXCLUDE command

NOTE: 

The command is as follows

INCLUDE featurename type name

• featurename - name of the feature being affected
• type - one of USER, HOST, DISPLAY, GROUP, HOST_GROUP or INTERNET
• name - name of the user or group to include

You can also use MAX feature to control, how many users can have access with in a Group 

MAX 3 feature1 GROUP 

MAX 1 feature2 GROUP ALL_GROUPS 

Hi, there seems to be a specific FlexLM Communicy, you can find it here: https://community.flexera.com/t5/Flexera-Software-Community/ct-p/Flexera_Software_Community?_ga=2.148010292.2091331673.1569525785-1827394814.1569525785