Autocad Redundant and Distributed License Server

[detroit]

Hello to all!

I have a license server that sits in one site.

I have 4 or 5 different sites that use Autocad 2010 and they get their licenses from that one site.

I read that with Redundant License Servers, you need 3 servers, but they need to be in the same subnet. That won't work for me as I have a different subnet per site.

Autodesk website mentions Distributed License Server, which would work on a WAN, but if 1 server goes down, some licenses would be unavailable.

Does that mean that I have to split the licenses up across the servers?

What happens if I exceed the license count at one site? Does it then go to the other server on the WAN to get one?

All help and comments appreciated!

 

[jkupski]

Distributed license server" is autodesk's marketing speak for "breaking your license pool up into multiple license pools, and hosting each pool on an arbitrary non-redundant server."

If you exceed the license count in the pool, nothing happens automatically... you need to re-point the client at an alternate license server.

 

[detroit]

If the user repoints it to a different license server (cad-server2 instead of the default of cad-server), once they exit and try to go back in, does it default back to the ORIGINAL server that it looked at (Cad-Server) or will they continually keep using the second one?