Restricting Licenses to Users or Groups

You can restrict floating licenses to specific users, groups, or machines. Create a file called safe.opt in the FlexServer directory. There is no need to reference this file in any other configuration files; FlexNet knows to look for it automatically. However, the file must be named safe.opt, and it must be in the same folder as safe.exe.

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.

Here is an example of an options file:

RESERVE 1 professional GROUP gisdept

GROUP gisdept xxxx yyyy

This example reserves 1 FME Desktop Professional license for users xxxx and yyyy, who are in group gisdept. GROUP member names are case-sensitive.

Note: You can specify only one group. Multiple GROUP statements per license type are not supported.

To restrict a license to specific hosts (i.e. machines) instead, replace the keyword GROUP with HOST_GROUP.

For more documentation, including additional options, see <FlexServer>\Documents\LicenseAdministration.pdf, where <FlexServer> is the directory where you installed the FlexNet software.