This configuration allows you to distribute your licenses over a number of different license servers. This cluster of license servers, creates a 'pool' of available licenses consisting of the aggregated number of licenses from each individual server.

When a workstation attempts to retrieve a license, it can poll all of the servers until it is able to obtain an Alchemy CATALYST license. Each user's workstation has the paths to all (or some, at your discretion) of the license servers available, as defined during installation and product activation. If a user is denied a license on the first server on the list, then the software automatically tries the second server on the list, and so on.

This configuration is ideal if you have a number of different groups, each using a license server. By configuring your workstations to poll each of your individual Alchemy NETWORK License servers, you create a virtual 'pool' of all your licenses. This aggregates your licenses ensuring that you maximize the availability of each product license across your entire organization.

In this scenario, the client organization has three engineering offices, each with their own individual license server. These License servers are clustered together to aggregate all licenses into one large 'pool' of licenses. When a workstation in Dublin requests an Alchemy License, it first polls the Dublin license server, if this server cannot release an available license, the Paris server is then polled and so on until a license is located and released to the workstation.

In this configuration, should an individual license server crash or be taken out of service by your system administrator, the Alchemy NETWORK License Manager will continue to service license requests for the other license servers in the cluster. This improves license availability across your entire organization and improves service levels from your central IT department.

This configuration is also the most scalable of Network Licenses. You can add more License Servers to this configuration as your usage and number of licenses expand. In addition to this it can work over both a LAN and WAN network topology.