Using External Services with License Technologies

Producers can use Revenera-provided interfaces to deploy external services that provide customized functionality within FlexNet Operations. License keys can be generated, for instance, by an external SOAP service that implements the LicenseGeneratorService Web Services Description Language (WSDL).

The server that implements this WSDL is hosted separately from the one that runs FlexNet Operations. It hosts the service externally and operates independently of FlexNet Operations, as shown in the figure below. The external service is accessed by FlexNet Operations at run time for operations such as product and license model validation and license generation.

External License Generator

For information on using external services with license technologies, see the following topics:

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External Service Operations

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Creating an External Service

Note:The availability of certain operations varies with your FlexNet Operations license technology type. Producers can implement a custom filename generator service for FlexNet Licensing Technology and connect FlexNet Operations to that service by specifying the end point in Generator Service End Point on the Create A License Technology page. (In this case, implement only the two filename generator methods; the other methods on the external generator service should return null.)