The license reservation feature available with the FlexNet Embedded license server allows the license server administrator at a customer’s enterprise to control the distribution of the server’s license pool. With no reservations defined, the license server distributes licenses on a first-come-first-served basis to client devices requesting them. However, with the use of reservations, the server can preallocate a certain number of TotalView licenses from the pool to specific entities (for example, client devices or users) to help ensure that these entities have access to the licenses they need.

For TotalView licenses, the server can preallocate licenses for users belonging to particular Linux/Unix group. The license server administrator can choose to preallocate the entire pool of licenses, a portion of the licenses, or none of the licenses. Any unreserved license remains in the shared pool of licenses and is available on a first-come, first-served basis. The default reservation group for TotalView licenses is totalview_user group and is controlled by the TV::fne_reservation_group_name variable, defined in the .tvdrc file.