Installing an FNE Failover Server

TotalView's FNE license technology supports a failover license server configuration to provide a robust license server availability solution. This creates a primary/failover FNE license server pair for a complete FNE failover setup/configuration.

The procedure to install a failover license server is the same as installing a regular license server as described on Installing a FlexNet Embedded (FNE) License Server, with a few small differences:

• For step 2. Generate a Host ID for Each FNE License Server, you must generate a host ID for both the primary and failover license servers.

• For step 4. Configure the FNE License Server, #3, the provided configure script is Configure_Backup_Server rather than Configure_License:

  cd /opt/toolworks/flexnetls-<version>

  sudo bin/Configure_Backup_Server

  The primary and failover servers must have the same assigned port.

• Configure Hosts to use the FNE failover setup.

  In the case of a failover setup, the TV_LICENSE_FILE environment variable points to the failover host pair using the format <port>@<primarylicserver>:<backuplicserver>, for example:

  TV_LICENSE_FILE=7137@licserver:failoverserver

  export TV_LICENSE_FILE