Simone,

The best option for you is probably to create an 'options' file that reserves licenses for particular users/clients.

If you review chapter 5 of the FlexNET End-User Guide, you'll find more detailed information, but you'll want to:

- Edit the license.dat and add to the "VENDOR" line the path to your options file.
- In the options file, depending on how you want to restrict license usage (by client IP or by user ID) you can create a HOST_GROUP (if by client IP) or a GROUP (if by user ID), and then add a "RESERVE" keyword to the options file.

For example, if I wanted to reserve 4 licenses for Troy, Erik, Rob, and Willo, because they all do support at times, I could edit my license.dat to include:

Code:

VENDOR blm options=/usr/local/graphon/etc/blm.options

Then, I would create that file, with the following contents:

Code:

GROUP Support troy robc erikt willow RESERVE 4 unix_session GROUP Support

Note that any licenses so "RESERVE"d are not available to users outside of the specified group, but I think this is what you want. In your case, you'd have to modify the license.dat on each of the redundant servers and install the options file on each of those servers as well. Please let us know if you have any further questions or problems. Thanks, Troy