How to Use Floating License Key in Offline Mode

The floating license allows you to share your Visual Paradigm license key between your team. While using floating license the software need to keep online and connect to license server for validation. In some situation, such as working in customer’s site or during travel, you may not able to get access to your license server. In this case you can export the floating license key form your server and use the software offline. In this article we will show you how to export the floating license key form your license server, and how to return it back after using.

Enable Export of Floating License on Server

In order to export the floating license, you have to enable the export option in your server.To enable this option:

• Open the browser and go to your VP Server.

 

Access to VP Server with browser

 

• Login to server as the administrator with login name “Admin”.

 

Login to server as Admin

 

• Click Floating License under Administration

 

Select Floating License module under Administration section

 

• Select Allow Client to Export Floating License

 

Enable export of floating license in server

 

Now your server is ready and we can export the floating license key to use it offline.

• Open the License Manager. For the new Sleek User Interface you can open it under Windows > License Manager. For the Classic User Interface, you can open it under Tools > License Manager.

 

Open License Manager

 

• Click Export License… button.

 

Export floating license from server

 

• The floating license is then exported.

 

Floating license key being exported from server

 

Note: The available licenses on server will be reduced after exporting it to local use. Other users will not be able to request key from VP Server until the key is being return back.

 

 

Floating license exported from server

 

Return Floating License Key

• After exporting the floating license key, remember to return it back to VP Server when you have finished using it, so that it can be available to other users.
• Open License Manager.
• Click Return License… button.

 

Return floating license back to server

 

 

• Now, the key is imported back to the VP Server.

 

Exported key being returned back to server