Flexnet

Anthony mentioned in a post about V5 that you were going to move towards software licensing for Flexsim called Flexnet do you have any more details on this or what form it's going to take?

Mike

http://www.flexsim.com/community/for...ead.php?t=1111

The new licensing will be a software-based licensing scheme. You will no longer need a HASP key. Once it goes into operation, customers will receive an Activation ID that they use to activate licenses on their machines.



Once activated, the license is permanent on your machine. For corporate licenses, a license server activates a number of licenses from Flexsim, and then can either allow client machines to activate the licenses from their server, or allow client machines to concurrently check out licenses only when they're using Flexsim.

You can also return a license from your machine to Flexsim, or to your license server if you use corporate licensing. This allows you to activate it on another machine.

Anthony,
will HASP key completely phased out from v5 ?

Yes, there will no longer be a HASP option in v5. Flexnet does have a hardware key option, but we haven't looked into that much. If enough users request the hardware key option, then we may add it.

Hello Anthony,

can I borrow a volume net license too. I need this function to transfer a license to a portable computer and then show a model at a different location.

I have another question about the flexnet servers, i can run on a single workstation. I use already three servers on this machine. Will there be the opportunity to merge different licenses files?


Jörg

Hi Anthony

We only have the one license of Flexsim however I use it on my desktop PC and on the lap top depending on where I am working/presenting. I would really like to maintain this flexibility of using it on different machines as and when required.

Regards

Anth

Originally Posted by Jörg Vogel

can I borrow a volume net license too.

Flexsim will use Flexnet's newer Trusted Storage technology, and not the license file-based technology. "Borrowing" is essentially the same as activating, since you can return the license to your company's server once you're finished with it.

Originally Posted by Jörg Vogel

i can run on a single workstation. I use already three servers on this machine. Will there be the opportunity to merge different licenses files?

You can transfer license rights between different servers, so yes.

Originally Posted by Anthony Timmiss

Hi Anthony

We only have the one license of Flexsim however I use it on my desktop PC and on the lap top depending on where I am working/presenting. I would really like to maintain this flexibility of using it on different machines as and when required.

Regards

Anth

I have the same situation here. I guess a lot of other users want this flexibility as provided by the original HASP key as well.

It´s the same Problem for me, to use Flexsim on the machine I´m probably working with. For presentation I always use an Notebook, for normal working and experiments an Desktop PC. This way it would be great to have this option in V5 too.

Hello Anthony,

How will Runtime version licensing work with Flexnet?

Thanks in advance...

Activation IDs for runtime versions will only activate certain features of the software. The process is the same, but what it unlocks is different.

There appears to be a lot of support for a hardware key option. Are Flexsim going to look into it now?

Yes, we are looking into it.