Concurrent User (license type)

A license that allows a large number of users to access the software, but limits how many of them may use it simultaneously. Since inventory tools do not monitor concurrent user numbers, this license type is excluded from compliance calculations. Set compliance manually on licenses of this type.

This kind of license is typical of high-end engineering applications. The licensing for these applications is managed in FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications, and the results are imported into FlexNet Manager Suite for centralized reporting. Because this licensing is managed from FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications, the special Concurrent User licenses for these applications are unlike other license types in FlexNet Manager Suite, in the following ways:

• FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Concurrent User licenses are created automatically by the inventory import process
• FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Concurrent User licenses can be manually created in FlexNet Manager Suite
• FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Concurrent User licenses are not subject to extended use rights, such as having upgrades and downgrades applied automatically
• FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Concurrent User licenses are not linked to application records or computer records within FlexNet Manager Suite
• It is not possible to manually allocate (or remove) users to (or from) these licenses from within FlexNet Manager Suite
• Compliance for these licenses is calculated by FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications, and not by the inventory import process within FlexNet Manager Suite.

FlexNet Manager Suite provides a central license server and manages usage of the engineering applications owned by your enterprise. To provide centralized reporting and a single view of your overall license compliance, FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications exports the following information to FlexNet Manager Suite:

• Usage of the applications
• License consumption
• License purchases
• Compliance/over-utilized status.

On import of this information, FlexNet Manager Suite creates Concurrent User licenses to model the licensing information reported by FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications.

Product use rights

Upgrade rights, downgrade rights. (Not applicable for licenses relating to FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications.)

Group assignment

Group assignment is supported.

Scoping to groups

Not available.

Consumption

The number of unique computers that have installations of one or more of the applications linked to the license.

When the Concurrent User license is created automatically while importing data from FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications, this number is directly imported rather than locally calculated.

Included

Computers within the scope of the license.

(Not applicable for licenses created automatically while importing data from FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications.)

Compliance

Not calculated. For locally-created Concurrent User licenses, you may manually assign the status Compliant on the license properties.

Concurrent User licenses created automatically for engineering applications have their compliance status calculated by FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications.

Changing from

Allocations to computers may be deleted.

Scoping rules will be deleted.

Changing to

You may want to allocate the license to computers. (Not applicable for licenses relating to FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications.)