Overview

FlexNet Publisher (FNP) is an advanced version of FLEXlm. FNP provides floating or concurrent licensing to network client software applications, rather than computer specific licensing. This design greatly benefits both users and license administrators. With the FNP technology, the end-user can also borrow a license to run the application offline, that is, when the end-user's computer is not connected to the network. In addition, license administrators can configure the FNP license server options file to create a custom licensing policy that best serves their unique licensing needs.

The FNP license server and the FNP-licensed application can run on the same computer or different computers. Further, they can also run on different Windows operation systems.

IPASSI FlexNet Publisher is a FlexNet Publisher licensing management system that is customized to secure AVEVA software applications. The specific FNP version that AVEVA uses is 11.19.6. AVEVA developed, in addition to the general FNP functionalities, the client utilities (checkout) to allow end-users to borrow the FNP standard licenses and TOKEN licenses respectively for offline use.