Summary

Can Licenses be Activated Directly from Server Side Trusted Storage

Question

On a client machine can licenses be activated directly from server side trusted storage?

Answer

The client can directly activate licenses from server side trusted storage provided it has been prepped correctly, using?isserver=true?, and the license type is activatable or hybrid.

Additional Information

Example
In the details below F1 (type concurrent) could not be directly accessed (requires a vendor daemon) but V1 could be (type hybrid).

>serveractutil -view

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Trust Flags: FULLY TRUSTED
Fulfillment Type: PUBLISHER ACTIVATION
Status: ENABLED
Fulfillment ID: FID__2b457768_137ff27fd25__7fee
Entitlement ID: 2b45-7768-137f-f27f-d257-ff4
Product ID: NAME=Concurrent Test 1;VERSION=1.0
Suite ID: NONE
Expiration date: 12-Jul-2013
Concurrent: 1
Concurrent overdraft:0
Hybrid: 0
Hybrid overdraft: 0
Activatable: 0
Activatable overdraft: 0
Repairs: 0
Feature line(s):
INCREMENT F1 flexera 1.0 12-jul-2013 1 ISSUER="My Corporation" \
ISSUED=2-jul-2012 START=1-jun-2012 SIGN="0181 8196 2E87 D438 \
5B9E C5D6 6252 9818 37FD 5401 CBA0 8904 4EA8 DEBB 28F9 043A \
A1B2 1869 268A B171 13B7 CF17 F5F1 A593 EC4C 135C 4461 F148 \
491C 83EA"
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Trust Flags: FULLY TRUSTED
Fulfillment Type: PUBLISHER ACTIVATION
Status: ENABLED
Fulfillment ID: FID__2b457768_137ff27fd25__7fe8

Entitlement ID: 2b45-7768-137f-f27f-d257-ff3
Product ID: NAME=Version Test 2;VERSION=2.0

Suite ID: NONE
Expiration date: permanent
Concurrent: 0
Concurrent overdraft:0
Hybrid: 15
Hybrid overdraft: 0
Activatable: 0
Activatable overdraft: 0
Repairs: 0
Feature line(s):
INCREMENT V1 flexera 1.0 permanent 1 ISSUER="My Corporation" \
ISSUED=5-jul-2012 START=4-jul-2012 SIGN="1EC9 79B5 09F4 B755 \
00FC 694E 8390 1DE2 1397 424B C9C4 30CC 1EC4 D7D1 23B6 0991 \
D790 D5AD E862 BD57 F2EC 3E75 391A 541C 5372 2D8D 5435 A33B \
9917 8BEF"
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On FlexNet Operations (FNO) the license types relate to these license models -
Concurrent = Floating Transferrable
Hybrid = Floating Borrowable
Activatable = Enterprise Activation