Example: Single Independent Server

Company A is a small business developing scientific applications. There are 10 Sun workstations running the latest release of the Solaris operating environment with six RTUs for Sun(TM) WorkShop Professional(TM) C. Since Company A's resources are limited, the company is having the NFS(TM) server sampson act as both the license server and the application server. The NFS server is a file server everyone uses as a common work area. Figure 1-2 illustrates Company A's network.

Figure 1-2 Using an NFS Server as a License Server

The machine sampson was picked to serve Company A's license tokens because it is a reliable machine that is neither upgraded nor rebooted frequently. Company A recognizes that any trouble with sampson would be noticed immediately since the common development area is stored there.