Your company operates a single large manufacturing campus with hundreds of physical and virtual servers. A software vendor offers several license models for its systems-management agent. Management wants the model that lets the IT staff install an unlimited number of copies on any server located at that campus without tracking CPU sockets, cores, or individual user counts every time a new host is added. Which licensing model best meets this requirement?
A site-based (or site) license grants the right to deploy the software on any systems that reside within one defined physical location. Because usage rights are tied to the site rather than to a user, device, processor, or concurrency pool, the customer can add or remove servers freely without recalculating license totals.
Concurrent-user licensing restricts the number of simultaneous users and would still require license pool monitoring. Per-socket licensing requires a license for every populated CPU socket on each server, so new or upgraded hardware would have to be counted. Node-locked licensing binds the software to a single hardware device and therefore does not allow unlimited installations across multiple hosts. Only the site-based model satisfies the requirement for unlimited, on-premises, location-limited deployment with minimal administrative overhead.