Multple Standalone Question

[paul.ashley]

We had intended to use FlexLM for our AutoCAD 2008 licenses but a new corporate policy has us faced with a huge yearly cost for maintaining the LM an a corporate server (I could buy several Acad seats for the price!). A department server is not allowed so I was interested in understanding the consequences of reverting to the older method, a single authorization code for each seat.

My main concern is what happens when an installation of AutoCAD on a particular station is no longer needed, or even worse the machine crashes or is junked. How doe you get the license back to be able to load it on a new machine?

[Anonymous]

pashley said the following On 8/7/2007 1:11 PM:
>
> My main concern is what happens when an installation of AutoCAD on a
> particular station is no longer needed, or even worse the machine
> crashes or is junked. How doe you get the license back to be able to
> load it on a new machine?

As I understand it with MSSA (multi-seat stand-alone) licensing, if you
have 50 seats then you are granted 100 "online" activations. After that
point, you have to call Autodesk or your reseller and get a new code for
every subsequent install.

You could try using the PLU (portable license utility) to move activated
licenses around, but in our experience, this failed about half the time
anyway.

The "50" and "100" numbers were made up. I'm pretty sure the ratio of
activations to licenses is not disclosed.

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R.K. McSwain
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[paul.ashley]

I've seen information from Autodesk that does state you may have a second installation for each lseat but that to be legal it must be on a remote site, at home for example, and not be running concurrently with the original installation.

I agree about the portable license utility being difficult to use correctly and it doesn't solve the problem of a crashed machine either. I guess I'm between a rock and a hard place.

[Anonymous]

You can run Flexlm on about any POS box you have there.
It's the policy that's your problem.

[paul.ashley]

I hate to sound too ignorant but what is a POS box? I know of Point of Sale software but does it have another meaning. too?

[Anonymous]

POS = Piece Of S**T - you don't need a server to fun the license manager.

Also, with a multiseat standalone you get a single serial number that covers
all seats, so once you enter it when creating your installation deployments,
you don't have to enter it at individual computers, and they also will
automatically authorize themselves at the first use.

John

wrote in message news:5682565@discussion.autodesk.com...
I hate to sound too ignorant but what is a POS box? I know of Point of Sale
software but does it have another meaning. too?

[paul.ashley]

My concern is still what happens when the software is either uninstalled or a machine with an install crashes. I have done a single code multiple seat network deployment before and it was OK but I'm wondering if the process for recovering licenses is still the same - you have to contact Autodesk and persuade them you're not cheating. Unfortunately,as far as I know, an uninstall doesn't unregister a product.

As for the LM not needing a server - is all you need a MAC address of any normal machine on the network? And if we use dynamic IPs is the mac address static regardless because its an address to the network adaptor?

[Anonymous]

pashley said the following On 8/7/2007 1:36 PM:
> I've seen information from Autodesk that does state you may have a
> second installation for each lseat but that to be legal it must be on
> a remote site, at home for example, and not be running concurrently
> with the original installation.

This is really a different case. Your second install is to replace the
first install.

We reprovision all computers before assigning them to an employee.

If a person is terminated, the computer is wiped clean.
If a new person starts, he either gets a new computer or a wiped old one.
Because of our frequent cleaning of machines, we ran out of "online
activations" real quick. We just email our reseller now and we have had
no problems. In fact, we usually receive the activation within the hour
of requesting it.


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R.K. McSwain
http://rkmcswain.blogspot.com