License Rights Representation

FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications supports the management of licenses represented in license files and in trusted storage.

License Files

A license file is a text file containing license certificates from one or more software publishers. A license certificate, in turn, is licensing rights information specific to a single publisher’s FlexEnabled application.

Trusted Storage

Trusted storage is a secure location in which a software publisher can install license rights—in the form of fulfillment records. Unlike a license file, which cannot be changed by the publisher after it is delivered to an end user, license rights in trusted storage can be updated by the publisher.

Also, license rights in trusted storage can be transferred (rehosted) from one license server to another within an end-user enterprise without the involvement of the software publisher.

License rights in trusted storage can be equivalent to those expressed in license files. Just as license files can be placed on both end-user machines and license-server machines, trusted storage can be created on end-user machines and license-server machines.