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Compatibility and Performance Notes

Compatibility

The RMS License Manager runs as a system service on Windows and as a background process on UNIX.

Being cross platform, clients running different operating systems can obtain licenses from a centralized License Manager.

The license server can communicate over a single IP address only on a multi-home PC. You do not have choice to specify any particular IP address for use by the License Manager. If the IP address to which License Manager is bound becomes unavailable for any reason, then the License Manager needs to be restarted to allow using any other IP address on the system.

Performance Notes

High performance is always a consideration on a busy network. There are several things you can do to optimize the speed with which licenses are acquired by your network users, and to speed up the use of RMS utilities: