{"id":951,"date":"2009-09-21T05:35:21","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T13:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/?p=951"},"modified":"2009-09-18T13:58:45","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T21:58:45","slug":"autodesk-flexlm-license-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2009\/09\/autodesk-flexlm-license-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Autodesk FlexLM License Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my last post<\/a> on this issue I opened the topic with the options that Autodesk provides with licensing.\u00a0 My concern is that choosing one or the other does not allow me to cover my disaster\u00a0 recovery needs.\u00a0\u00a0 If I go one way – I have troubles.\u00a0 If\u00a0 I go the other way – I have different troubles.<\/p>\n

To recap – there is Distributed (a lic file in every office) or Redundant (three lic files on differing hardware to cover hardware failures)<\/p>\n

Here is my concern… This does not address the real world issue of disasters.<\/p>\n

Redundant is great for most disasters that impact hardware.\u00a0 If a server fails – it rolls over to the backup server.\u00a0 But it will not work for the most common, an internet outage between the home office and a remote office.<\/p>\n

Please tell me how an individual office stays running in CAD or Revit if the internet connection to the home office is lost.\u00a0 That happens all the time.\u00a0 We have internet outages spread around our offices multiple times per year.\u00a0 We have very high corporate level of reliability, but it happens.\u00a0 We do not have DSL backup – that would help, but would cost us money.<\/p>\n

Well – you say – Go to Distributed.\u00a0 But this also has its drawbacks.<\/p>\n

Distributed allows me to split out my licenses between offices.\u00a0 But if an office goes offline, fire, flood, whatever, I have a dead license file on that server and cannot tell my people to go to another office and work.\u00a0 The licenses are captive on the dead server.\u00a0 I can request a replacement lic file and ADSK is fairly quick, but even if it took only one hour, that is one hour times the number of licenses locked.\u00a0 30-40 hours of dead time while I wait for a new lic file.<\/p>\n

Redundant is best for sharing centrally located licenses, but Distributed is better to insure local access.<\/p>\n

My request…<\/p>\n

I am looking for one central license file that fails into distributed mode upon loss.\u00a0 No need for a redundant backup \u2013 the distributed files are our backup.<\/p>\n

By allowing one lic file to contain all of our seats that fails over to a local lic file that is limited, I think we can achieve what I am looking for.\u00a0 This would allow each office to work from a local lic until the connection is restored back to the home office.\u00a0 Worst case is that we are temporarily over our seat count within a maximum of 8 hours until we get the main lic file back online.<\/p>\n

ADSK has offered a tricky, fragile and hard to create and manage system of Options files, but that is way to much trouble in my opinion.<\/p>\n

Come on Autodesk – can you help me out?\u00a0 Can you get something better than what is offered now?\u00a0 I need to stay within my legal seat count without undercutting my ability to keep doing business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my last post on this issue I opened the topic with the options that Autodesk provides with licensing.\u00a0 My concern is that choosing one or the other does not allow me to cover my disaster\u00a0 recovery needs.\u00a0\u00a0 If I go one way – I have troubles.\u00a0 If\u00a0 I go the other way – I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-licensing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}