On-Premise Licensing

For on-premise licensing, Silk Performer provides two types of licenses:

• standalone licenses
• floating licenses

The concept of floating licenses allows license sharing among users by installing the licenses on a license server. Standalone licenses are bound to a particular machine. Each Silk product supports both licensing technologies, Silk Meter and Micro Focus AutoPass. Silk Meter is considered the native license technology and supports standalone as well as floating licenses. With AutoPass, currently only floating licensing is supported. However, AutoPass provides better usage reporting capabilities.

Note the following:

• If you have multiple license servers, you need multiple license files, each one tied to a particular license server.
• If you have received a Silk Performer license file, install the file on your license server.
• If you have not received a license file, generate one with the online license generator.