Before You Begin

Ensure that the following requirements are met before beginning the installation:

• You must be running a TCP/IP network.
• Three computers on the network are designated as license servers. The license servers may be any computers on the network that are visible to all computers that may dependent on them for their licenses. You should choose computers that are always running and always connected to the network because the client computers must be able to communicate with any one license server to use FME. The processing burden on the licensing server is negligible.
• You must have Administrator privileges to install the Flexera Licensing Manager.
• If the computers you want to use as your floating license servers have firewalls, you must open a port on each one through which the FlexServer can communicate. By default, the range of ports used is 27000-27009, although you can also configure other ports.
• If FlexNet is already installed on your license servers, you still need to perform a new installation. FME requires the version of FlexNet that is included in the installer. In addition, if your organization is configuring license borrowing (see Borrowing a Floating License), you will require LMTOOLS version 11.8 or newer.

The FME license servers cannot be installed on a virtual machine that is built and moved around among many physical machines. It must be locked to a single fixed MAC address.