How does Orion’s floating licensing work in end customer environments secured with firewalls, proxy servers and DMZs, or environments that prohibit Internet access altogether for applications?

The Orion client library has the capability of communicating through HTTP proxy servers. For your enterprise customers, you also have the option of distributing the Orion server for use as a zero-configuration license proxy server that can be installed in a DMZ and mediate licensing traffic between your application installation and your hosted Orion server.

Floating licensing requires network connectivity at the time of activation and deactivation, since these are relatively frequent operations compared with product activation – therefore, typically offline activation and deactivation might not be feasible. The Orion client library does provide an “overdraft” mechanism that allows continued operation for a limited time in the event that a network connection is unavailable for a few hours.