Standalone seat

Chapter 4 Managing PowerDesigner Licenses

Standalone seat - Served

Definition

A served standalone license is designed to be provided by a server. A served standalone license is dedicated to a given machine and cannot be used by other designers.

This configuration requires that an administrator installs a license server in your organization (more information on how to setup a license server, see the "Setting up a License Server" section in the "Installing PowerDesigner" chapter in the Installation Guide ). Then, when you select the Standalone seat - Served installation option, you will be prompted to define the license server and the PowerDesigner package you want to use in order to fetch the appropriate license from the server and authorize PowerDesigner on your machine.

A served standalone license requires:

That you be connected to the license server when you start PowerDesigner for the first time to fetch the license.
That you regularly connect to the license server. If you remain disconnected from the license server for more than one month, your license will be disabled on your machine. You will have to reconnect to the server to be able to use your license again.

Business case

Served standalone licenses are used in larger design teams, when you want to prevent users from setting up their machine with an Internet connection for downloading license files. In this mode, the license is activated once by the administrator and not for each end user. The connection to a license server may also be considered to be more secure.

You have full control over license usage using the server mode.