Concurrent licenses enable you to install MapInfo Pro on any number of computers. A license server, installed and maintained by your organization, limits the number of computers that can run MapInfo Pro at any given time to the number of concurrent licenses purchased by your organization.
In the concurrent licensing scheme, you must connect to a license server on your network to check out a license before you can run MapInfo Pro. Checking out a license is the process of obtaining a license from the license server. You will need to supply the license server machine name and port number to connect to the license server. You can do this either during installation or the first time you run MapInfo Pro. After you have established a license server connection, the check out occurs automatically.
A license server administrator from your organization installs and maintains the license server. The license server administrator must also perform the following tasks:
- Activate the license server to make licenses available for check out.
- Inform users of the license server machine name and port number.