Customer-Hosted Floating Licenses

For closed-network environments running multiple Chariot instances that share a pool of concurrent license seats. License validation stays entirely inside your network.

What is a Floating License Server?

A Floating License Server (FLS) is a small server application that holds your Chariot license and tracks how many Chariot instances are using it at any given time. Instead of binding a license to one specific Chariot server, the FLS lets multiple Chariot instances share a pool of concurrent license seats.

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The FLS runs entirely inside your network.  Your Chariot instances communicate with it over your LAN, and neither the Chariot instances nor the FLS itself need outbound internet access for license validation.

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The FLS is provided by License4J as free software. For installation, configuration, and administration, see License4J's Floating License Server page.

Once your FLS is running, see Purchasing a new license to purchase and activate a Customer-Hosted Floating license against it.

Activating Floating Licenses

Prerequisites

Before requesting a Customer-Hosted Floating license, you should already have:

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Request a License Usage

You'll send Cirrus Link two pieces of information from your FLS so we can issue a license keyed to your specific server.

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Cirrus Link will generate your license and email you a usage hash. This can take up to 24 hours.

Install the License on Your FLS

Log in to your FLS admin UI (default is port 16090,  http://<fls-host>:16090)

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The license appears in the FLS license grid, and the FLS is ready to serve seats to Chariot instances.

Activate Chariot Against the FLS

In the Chariot UI, navigate to the License page.

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Repeat for each Chariot instance you want to license against the FLS.

Add More Chariot Instances

Each running Chariot instance leases one seat from the FLS. As long as you have available seats on the installed license, additional Chariot servers configured with the same FLS URL and matching License Features will activate automatically.

Upgrade a Customer-Hosted Floating License

When upgrading a Customer-Hosted Floating license — for example, changing feature flags or adding seats — you must uninstall the previous license from your FLS before installing the new one. If both are installed at once, your FLS will count seats twice.

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