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Introducing OmniMark Distributed Processing Engine

With the OmniMark Distributed Processing Engine, available in version 8, Stilo returns to a model of licensing that allows you to run OmniMark at your workstation using a license token obtained from a central server. You can install as many instances of OmniMark as you like on your network. Whenever you need to run OmniMark, it requests a token from the license server, and returns it when it is finished. If no license token is available, OmniMark can wait until one is free, based on command-line options that you set.

This licensing option is based on license management software from FlexLM. To ensure your installation stays up and running, there are two options available: a single server float license, with emergency key, or a three-server fault-tolerant float license.

In the first case, your license key allows you to install the FlexLM license manager software on one machine, from which all your license tokens will be served. If you should experience hardware failure on this machine, you can use a time-limited emergency key to install the license manager on an equivalent machine while you arrange a permanent license transfer, if necessary.

The three-server floating license allows the license server software to be installed on three servers. As long as all goes well the primary server handles the token requests. However, if that machine should fail, one of the backup servers automatically takes over that role, and production is not interrupted. This configuration does require at least two servers to be running, so if one fails you should arrange for a license transfer from that machine promptly.

OmniMark Distributed Engine will run OmniMark programs from source or from compiled code. It provides compile-time error messages as well as run-time ones, but it cannot be used to save compiled files. You will still need to use the OmniMark Development Toolkit for that.

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