Definition of floating license in English English dictionary
Anyone on the network can run a licensed ANSYS product, up to the limit specified in the license file Floating licenses require the license manager daemon (lmgrd) and the vendor daemon (ansyslmd) to be running to count the concurrent usage of the licenses
A floating license allows you to use the software on any client PC on your network because a SentinelLM license server manages the use of the license tokens among the clients