Registering a Floating License

How you register to use a floating license will depend on how floating licenses are managed in your organization.

• If the machines that share the pool of floating licenses are on multiple network segments, someone in your company will need to set up a license server. Consult that person to determine if they have set up a license server as a TCP or HTTP server as the registration process is different for each.

• If all the machines sharing a pool of floating licenses are on the same network segment, you will register your licence the same way you register a Named-User Licence. Oxygen XML Author will use your connection to a local area network, without additional notice, to automatically connect to other running instances of Oxygen XML Author. These connections may transmit your IP address to the local network.

  Note

  [For System Administrators] Multiple running instances of Oxygen XML Author communicate with each other using UDP broadcast on the 59153 port, to the 239.255.255.255 group.

  Warning

  This mechanism was deprecated starting with version 17.0 and it is scheduled for removal in a future version. It is recommended to switch to the license server licensing mechanism.