How to drop all leased licenses safely in floating client?

Floating Licenses
#1

Hello,

In following case, what is the correct way to unlease all leased licenses?

Background:

  • There’re 2 floating servers (server X and Y) on the network
  • There’s 1 floating client (client A) on the network

Situation:

  • Client A is leased a license from Server X
  • At some point Server X is disconnected from the network
  • So, now we changed Client A to use Server Y instead of Server X
  • Before start using Server Y, Client A tries to drop the license from Server X, but since Server X is not connected to the network, Client A cannot drop the license.

In this case, if Client A change its configuration to use Server Y, Client A will keep two of licenses leased (one from Server X and the other one from Server Y)
When Server X is connected back to the network, I believe Server X will lease the license to Client A, as Client A did not drop license before changing Server Y.

So, to avoid such case, somehow I want to flush all internal leased license inside of Client A, before changing its configuration to Server Y. So, once Server X unleased the license upon leasing time ends, the license will not be leased back to Client A anymore.

I believe GlobalClenaUp will not clean up leased license.
Should I close the process once and restart to clean up all leased licenses?
What would be a proper way to clean up leased license info in such case.

Please let me know.

#2

Hi,

Just calling DropLicense() would be enough, because irrespective of whether it fails or succeeds, the license handle is invalidated. So the thread which automatically refreshes the license won’t send a lease refresh request to Server X, as DropLicense() invalidated the license handle.

#3

Hello,

Got it.

I tested more and I encountered the case GetHandle kept returning error (error code 13) case after changing ProductFile. Once got into this state, I need to terminate the process to recover from the state.

Can you test with something like following code?

unsigned int handle = 0;

SetProductFile(PRODUCT_A)
GetHandle(&handle)
SetFloatServer(handle, localhost, 8090)
SetLicenseCallback(handle)
RequestLicense(handle)
…
DropLicense(handle)
handle = 0;
SetProductFile(PRODUCT_B)
GetHandle(&handle)
SetFloatServer(handle, localhost, 8091)
SetLicenseCallback(handle)
RequestLicense(handle)
…
DropLicense(handle)
handle = 0;

If above way is not correct, please let me know proper way which you guys made sure working correctly over there.

NOTE: it may work for first couple of trials, but eventually it stops working. Please keep doing til it started failing.

Best,

#4

Hi,

You can only use one product file per process. Why are you using a different product file for the second server, when it is actually a backup server for the first.

#5

Hello

I only use a one product file at a time. So I’m calling SetProductFile to change “active” product.

It is also not allowed to do so?

in our workflow, there’s a case to switch product file over the time. It is due to some complication of our requirements…

#6

You can’t change the product file once it’s set. Only one product file can be used once it’s set.

#7

Okay…

How about switching between node-Locked and floating license in one process?
That is also not allowed?

#8

LexFloatActivator and LexFloatClient are separate libraries, that should not be an issue.

#9

Got it. Thanks!