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XMS Configuration Guide
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License management
Licensing in a server replication environment
In an Xmedia Server replication setup, the Vertigo Suite application and device licenses are
also replicated from the primary server to the secondary server to ensure that both servers
contain identical licensing information for a seamless transition in case of failover.
Since a critical part of the licensing mechanism is that machine ID matches exactly with the
license, each Xmedia Server must have a dongle with matching Machine IDs. If the dongles
do not have the same Machine IDs, then a licensing error will occur and client applications
will not be able to connect to the secondary server when a failover occurs. See
of the XMS Server’s database” on page 6-1
for more information about these server
replication services.