Posit Floating License Servers
The recommended license activation method for products installed in customer-managed servers is to use license files. Please review the Licensing FAQ page before proceeding.
What is a floating license?
Floating licensing is a licensing model in which a number of purchased licenses are held by a license server. Individual product instances obtain a lease on a license for a short period of time, and renew the lease periodically while they’re running. When the product stops running, the lease is released and is immediately available for use by another instance of the product.
When should I use floating licensing?
In rare cases, you may need to activate a license key on a floating license server, described below. However, most customers are best served by using license files, instead. License files work well in all environments including ephemeral ephemeral, container-based, or air-gapped environments.
Please review the Licensing FAQ page before proceeding.
Linux server downloads
The easiest way to run a license server is to install it on a Linux server. The system requirements are negligible, and the service is preconfigured with product information. Download the license server specific to your product and Linux operating system from the options below. Refer to your product documentation for instructions on using the Posit licensing server with the product.
RStudio Server License Server 1.1.2
Release Date: 2020-03-02
Posit Workbench
Fedora 19/Red Hat 7 (32-bit)
SHA-256: 272ca35bf5f017515210516ebf10a1432b79eff41dfb7dc6648e3205758b1446
Fedora 19/Red Hat 7 (64-bit)
SHA-256: f1e1fa1d6393119a238987841c45334361cb6550ee874c6ae70182f39da9a347
Ubuntu 14/Debian 8 (32-bit)
SHA-256: e8e19dd14d4ab4b3d550c8155f5839c3a0c0178f36d90443aecaa23047d33510
Ubuntu 14/Debian 8 (64-bit)
SHA-256: 529833a931eb92573fc315961b449b8dcfc60f0b7edd008a8622ab82223684c1
RStudio Desktop Pro
Fedora 19/Red Hat 7 (32-bit)
SHA-256: da442c9e224377c4a7c9573d4f949e638e96b6950e578eb969ac1946948ae982
Fedora 19/Red Hat 7 (64-bit)
SHA-256: 7f80ba4f51928a62d0b96ca43e095e1131b12d27fa0a770a96688588959c2541
Ubuntu 14/Debian 8 (32-bit)
SHA-256: d780d30251ae3631411b19670084a77667bb523706898d5b3bb77ffbe1eaf639
Ubuntu 14/Debian 8 (64-bit)
SHA-256: 2fbed17af754dd1fa11b1a25f4f48bce76327df8483c914fb1818d480db276cf
Posit Connect
Fedora 19/Red Hat 7 (64-bit)
SHA-256: bfc4950ed114109dafa3ecaf54f44cbf8e18de1d1b5ebaadd89e61584bde9518
Ubuntu 14/Debian 8 (64-bit)
SHA-256: 5fc953236d7c44f3f4149b641d268094ae8c2e3d3eedddeabe9efd7f08f5cdf9
Shiny Server Pro
Fedora 19/Red Hat 7 (32-bit)
SHA-256: a93877842e9673f46273f7212ecf9b55ac483c7d5c53452be5f6c9df690cf77b
Fedora 19/Red Hat 7 (64-bit)
SHA-256: 9e54ce717e170c558bb1d74223edbd55bd7193aca53dedd952a284e686557a41
Ubuntu 14/Debian 8 (32-bit)
SHA-256: 2e51b797b098b366c7c90c786d6b974374d74733e8ef56d44184d458d2da3c92
Ubuntu 14/Debian 8 (64-bit)
SHA-256: 84221320ce229b9f962c9d68e76cbb5095a015702ccee9f1b4ecbcc92689eb6b
Posit Package Manager
Fedora 19/Red Hat 7 (32-bit)
SHA-256: 4c3c9c925358815443a3366c13150c72b6ef7ff94e925be6fdc78e1495d39fba
Fedora 19/Red Hat 7 (64-bit)
SHA-256: 90bb09ff60f0f076483feee91dafe55d294efbe5f41bbc989a4fa8178cc38631
Ubuntu 14/Debian 8 (32-bit)
SHA-256: d69bb64b828912f1edd6a55bdd0278683707e285bfd46b74e8270d018cc31a8b
Ubuntu 14/Debian 8 (64-bit)
SHA-256: 5aa2c0323046587b7fa4f6026f341f76a196fb6b9ce129b20b6074da6006028a
Other downloads
If you don’t have Linux servers in your organization, or don’t wish to install the server as a service, you can also run the license server using a standalone executable.
Standalone server
Release Date: 2018-03-27
Standalone Linux License Server
SHA-256: b5cb0609a62933735d880d84cb059dda36d0dbe25cbe09f29b31ab4960a5ae5f
Standalone MacOS License Server
SHA-256: 9bd6b7c9f03bbbfad6437097a71b81a6efe7417ca86628ac870117d4e7638a6b
Standalone Windows License Server
SHA-256: 043db029c18c65f19737aa5f84b14038db74b76b4c5c04a5715b10cbc4d346d7
Configuration
To use one of these standalone executables, copy the license-manager.conf file from your Posit product installation to the server running these executables; for instance, for Posit Workbench, the file is found at /usr/lib/rstudio-server/bin/license-manager.conf. Copy this file to the standalone server, and supply the fully qualified path to to the file in the -pdets argument when you run TurboFloatServer.
Refer to the TurboFloat server documentation for further instructions on configuring the standalone executable.