What is floating licensing according to Agilis?

The word “floating” translates into the ability to move licenses among machines at a relatively high frequency. This is as opposed to product activation of perpetual or relatively long duration licenses. It also means the absence of an explicit manual step to activate or deactivate licenses – the act of running an application automatically triggers the acquisition of a license (but only as needed – the license may be locally cached in persistent store), and inaction for a configured timeout automatically triggers its release (but a manual immediate-release mechanism is also available). The license can continue to be retained while the application is not running.

The term can apply to automatic anonymous users that don’t require pre-registration by an administrator. It can also apply to explicitly-registered named users. A valid floating named user can always acquire a license because it is preregistered, whereas a floating anonymous user can acquire a license only if one is available in the pool.