How many FlexLM services

[brian_iannantuono]

I'm running FlexLM 10.8 with 4 different Vendor services,
I'm being ask to add another vendor service. My question, is there a limit or a recommended limit of the number of services to 1 FlexLM server?. When does it become unstable?.

Thanks for your help,

[Anonymous]

I doubt you need to worry about that. It is more about how many users and
activity there is.

Here is what Macrovision writes about it.

For a large number of clients (who are each exchanging heartbeat messages
with the server), or for high checkout/checkin activity levels (hundreds per
second), the amount of CPU time consumed by the server may start to become
significant, although, even here, CPU usage is normally not high. In this
case, you may need to ensure that the server machine you select has enough
CPU cycles to spare.

For a large number of FLEXlm-licensed applications (hundreds), each of which
exchange heartbeat messages with the vendor daemon, the network bandwidth
used may start to become significant. In this case, run the FLEXlmlicensed
application and server on the same local area network, which may require
splitting licenses between two files for two servers. Users can use a
license-file list in the LM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable to have
effective access to both servers.

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"mm06905" wrote in message news:5545952@discussion.autodesk.com...
I'm running FlexLM 10.8 with 4 different Vendor services,
I'm being ask to add another vendor service. My question, is there a limit
or a recommended limit of the number of services to 1 FlexLM server?. When
does it become unstable?.

Thanks for your help,

[Anonymous]

> When does it become unstable?.

It's more of an issue with the resources.
I've seen users having up to 15 daemons on a single machine without
problems. They all run independently.
However make sure that the machine has enough diskspace and a good network
connectivity.
A good CPU can be helpful but until you hit more then 1000 concurrent users
I would not worry. Any old machine will do then.


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