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1. Open the License Server home page.
2. Choose Licenses > Tool Licenses and click the name of the tool for which you wish to reserve a user-locked license. The License Type column should indicate that the tool's license is Floating.
   
   
3. Under Reservations, take note of the Tokens Reserved information, which shows you how many tokens are currently reserved against the total number provided for the license. You can add new reservations in two ways:
   • Pattern Reservations allow for reserving tokens for users who match a specified user/host pattern. Both the user and host pattern must match in order to access the reserved token. To add a pattern reservation:
     1. Click Pattern Reservations. The Add Pattern Reservations dialog opens.
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     2. Enter a user pattern and a host pattern as regular expressions. Both are required. For more information about user and host patterns, see "Pattern Group Patterns" on the Managing License Groups page.
     3. Enter the number of tokens to reserve for users who match both the user pattern and host pattern.
     4. To add just this pattern, click Confirm. The dialog will close. If you want to add this pattern and keep the dialog open so you can add another one, click Confirm and Add Another.
   • Group Reservations allow for reserving tokens for Pattern groups and User Administration groups. Both Pattern groups and User Administration groups must be created before they can be used here. See the Managing License Groups page for more information. 
     1. Click Add Group Reservations. The Add Group Reservation dialog opens.
        
     2. Choose either Pattern or User Administration as the group type.
     3. Select the group you wish to use for this reservation from either the Pattern group or User Administration group dropdown, depending on which you chose as the Group type.
     4. Enter the number of tokens to reserve for users belonging to the selected group.
     5. To add just this group reservation, click Confirm. The dialog will close. If you want to add this group reservation and keep the dialog open so you can add another one, click Confirm and Add Another.

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Reserving Machine-Locked Licenses

A tool with a machine-locked license allocates tokens to specific machines, as identified by machine ID, on a 1-to-1 basis. Machine-locked licenses bind the license token to a machine ID for 30 days . Machine-locked licenses can only have one reservation at a time and during the this 30-day reservation period , no other machine can request machines may access the token. If a token is successfully acquired from a license without a reservation, then a reservation will automatically be created for the machine that acquired the token.

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