LICENSE MANAGEMENT ARCHITECTURE IN FLEXLM ENVIRONMENT

摘要

The use of floating licenses for the execution of the applications through the network has established the necessity of a flexible and secure License Server. FLEXlm Server is a well known example used by a great amount of applications. To improve the security and flexibility of a FLEXlm Server we propose an architecture that keeps the server unknown to the applications. The communication now is held in the application layer, by the remote call of a web service, instead of the transport layer where Server's and application's communication used to take place. The architecture assures the flexibility and the security without important consequences neither on time of the whole process (described above) nor on bandwidth of the current network.