Tips on installing licence servers

When you install the Asta Licence Manager application, a licence server is installed automatically onto the same computer. However, you may want to install a licence server onto a different computer to the Asta Licence Manager, as this enables you to manage the licences contained within the licence server remotely, for example from the System Administrator's computer. You do this by running the separate Asta licence server installer which is available on the Asta Licence Manager CD.

In normal practice, you will probably only want to install and use a single licence server, containing all of your licences. Ensure that you install the licence server onto a computer to which all of your Asta Powerproject clients can connect.

Install the Asta Licence Manager onto any suitable computer that can connect to the computer on which you have installed the licence server, for example the System Administrator's computer.

Although one licence server is normally sufficient, you can install and use more than one, each on a different computer. You may want to install more than one licence server in the following circumstances:

If you have an extremely large number of licences and want to spread the load over a number of different computers.
If you want to set up different licence servers to serve different 'communities' within your network.
If you want to set up different licence servers to serve different 'product types'. For example, you could have one licence server containing your normal licences, and another containing your read-only licences.
If you want to set up a second licence server as a 'backup', containing a number of spare licences for use in the event of the failure of your main licence server (this would of course cost more in terms of the additional spare licences).