{"id":32158,"date":"2018-12-14T22:12:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T22:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-license-manager-technical-questions\/"},"modified":"2018-12-14T22:12:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T22:12:06","slug":"ansys-license-manager-technical-questions","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-license-manager-technical-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ansys license manager technical questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoPlainText\">ATTN:&nbsp;&nbsp;Ansys support engineers<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\">I&#8217;m currently waiting on my account to be classified as an Ansys Support Coordinator (ASC). I&#8217;m hoping you will respond to these questions even if my Student Community account hasn&#8217;t been updated yet to identify me as an ASC.&nbsp; Thanks!!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\">I&#8217;m getting ready to install the ANSYS license manager onto a newer server and transfer its license from the old server to this new one.&nbsp; I have several questions about it:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\">We currently have 18.x clients.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I see there is a newer 19.x version.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>If I install the 19.x license manager, can the older 18.x clients still check out licenses?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I assume it&#8217;s backwards compatible, but wanted to be 100% sure.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\">Along the same lines, is it possible that newer 19.x clients check out licenses from an older 18.x license manager?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I assume not, but wanted to check my options.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\">If I install the latest 19.2 license manager right now and slightly newer clients get released later on (like 19.3, 19.4, etc), is an upgrade of the license manager to the same exact version required?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>I&#8217;m hoping you will say that any 19.x license manager can serve out licenses to any 19.x clients.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>thanks,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Scott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-32158","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["4330"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":[null],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0","0","0","0","0"],"_btv_view_count":["3613"],"_bbp_subscription":["238018"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["32158"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_engagement":["2250","157443","157480","160761"],"_bbp_voice_count":["4"],"_bbp_reply_count":["17"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["73589"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["73589"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2019-01-02 16:34:56"]},"test":"scottcopus"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/32158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/32158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}