In a cluster, each server deployed to the environment must be licensed. Multiple servers cannot share a single license. However, all server nodes in the cluster can share device connection licenses.
In a clustered environment, you must use a license server so it can coordinate licensing requirements among all installed components:
- Server validation – each time a server starts, it connects and registers with the license server to check if there is a valid license for it. If there is a free license available, the server checks out the license and continues with the start-up process. If the number of licensed servers cannot be retrieved from the license file, or the license server confirms that a server is not licensed, Unwired Server stops.
- Device connection validation – because available device licenses are shared among all servers in the cluster, all connections to all servers must be accounted for. The cluster name enumerates each device connection made across clustered servers. Every server then checks out all device licenses when the servers start.