We have a combination of stand alone and floating license seats of Solidworks and I am trying to find out if it makes sense to move them all to a license server. But I have some questions that maybe some of you can help answer.
1. Can a license server be installed on a workstation that uses Solidworks at the same time? I don't want to use the company's servers because we would have to get IT involved and that's not a good thing here. But we also don't have any extra computers to use as a license server so can I install it on one of the workstations that is used?
2. Can a license server be on more than one workstation so if one of them needs to be restarted or goes down for some reason, the others will handle the licenses? I see the triad setup as an option on the install screens, would this do this?
3. Anyone have any idea if Solidworks charges to move the seats to a license server setup?
Thanks,
Mike
1. Yes, I have several customer who run them on Windows 7 machines. You will need to turn off firewalls or open up ports to allow communication with the clients though.
2. No. SNL can only have 1 activation which would prevent loading on 2 machines. You can get a Triad license for redundancy, but will need to check with your VAR on procedures. I only see very large operations doing this that have multiple locations.
3. If you already have a network license, there is no charge to move standalones to that network.
Hope this helps.