Internet based network licensing

[leo]

Are there any plans for Autodesk to go to internet based network license server, like many other companies are doing, so that any user with internet connectivity can access our licenses?

[TravisNave]

Yes! There already is a working web version of the Network License Manager.

The latest FLEXnet Publisher license server manager, lmadmin, is currently available for selected platforms. lmadmin represents a significant milestone in the evolution of FLEXnet Publisher, offering a graphical user interface that provides a number of server administration improvements around usability, efficiency, and capability. See the License Administration Guide for additional information, including supported platforms.

lmadmin is backward compatible to version 9.2 of the vendor daemon and your FLEXenabled applications.



I have already downloaded and installed the lmadmin utility and have it running my AutoCAD 2006 thru 2010 products. It works just fine.



http://www.globes.com/support/fnp_utilities_download.htm#downloads



Screencap included.

[leo]

I do not mean a license server web based admin tool but a web based license server itself. Where a user would access a website that hosts your license file to acquire a license. For example all of our bentley products look to selectserver.bentley.com to access our network licenses for all of our bentley products. This would be helpful if our wide area network went down and not everyone could access the server with the license manager.

[TravisNave]

Well, you could technically make it available to the Internet but that would violate the EULA. It would also expose your licenses to anybody who could connect to it. I don't recommend it.