# Introducing the new License Platform for V93000 Tester

##### Content

1. [Motivation and customer benefit](https://lhc.advantest.com/link/109#bkmrk-motivation-and-custo-1)
2. [Terminology, technology, and a common approach](https://lhc.advantest.com/link/109#bkmrk-terminology%2C-technol)
3. [Efficient license management: Renewal & changes](https://lhc.advantest.com/link/109#bkmrk-efficient-license-ma)
4. [Customer self-rehosting 24x7](https://lhc.advantest.com/link/109#bkmrk-customer-self-rehost)
5. [Overview - New features: FNP vs. FNE or FNX](https://lhc.advantest.com/link/109#bkmrk-overview---new-featu)
6. [High-level migration sample](https://lhc.advantest.com/link/109#bkmrk-high-level-migration)
7. [As-is architecture cases](https://lhc.advantest.com/link/109#bkmrk-as-is-architecture-c)
8. [Target architecture options: FNE or FNX](https://lhc.advantest.com/link/109#bkmrk-target-architecture-)
9. [Migration decision path](https://lhc.advantest.com/link/109#bkmrk-migration-decision-p)
10. [Migration option-matrix](https://lhc.advantest.com/link/109#bkmrk-migration-option-mat)
11. [Migration chart](https://lhc.advantest.com/link/109#bkmrk-migration-chart)
12. [Migration roadmap, milestones, and next steps](https://lhc.advantest.com/link/109#bkmrk-migration-roadmap%2C-m)
13. [FNE/FNX license server requirements](https://lhc.advantest.com/link/109#bkmrk-fne%2Ffnx-license-serv)
14. [FNE/FNX network settings](https://lhc.advantest.com/link/109#bkmrk-fne%2Ffnx-network-sett)
15. [Migration Schedule Proposal](https://lhc.advantest.com/link/109#bkmrk-project-status-licen-1)
16. [Project status summary report: Sample](https://lhc.advantest.com/link/109#bkmrk-project-status-summa)

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## Motivation and customer benefits

#### **Motivation:**

Advantest has put a new license application into operation from the 3rd party vendor Revenera, formerly  
Flexera.

#### **Customer benefits with the new license platform - technical perspective:**

- Drastically reduced license management efforts for renewal & changes: automated online process or simple file handling on the HTTP level
- Once activated, contract licenses are automatically renewed with the annual renewal
- Self Service for license rehosting
- State of the Art tool with optimized GUI user-interface

#### **Further customer benefits - commercial and operational points:**

- Free off-charge migration; - lead and support from Advantest with a professional project team and  
    established processes
- A double set of licenses during the migration transition phase facilitates a smooth transition and eliminates  
    technical failures and risks to a great extent.

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## Terminology, technology, and a common approach

#### **Terminology and technology differences:**

- The currently installed legacy license platform is called ‘**FLEX NET PUBLISHER**’ or **FNP**
- The new license platform is called ‘**FLEX NET EMBEDDED**’ or **FNE**
- Difference: **FNE** and **FNP** license servers are entirely different tools. **FNE** uses regenerative (replacement) licensing, whereas **FNP** uses iterative licensing (via dynamic license pools).

#### **Common approach:**

- As for <span style="text-decoration: underline;">older client tester tools</span> (Smartest versions &lt;7.6), which are not migratable to **FNE**, a so-called **Proxy license** **platform** solution becomes necessary; the acronym hereto is **FNX**
- The Proxy license platform can handle all the Smartest releases from **FNE and FNP** license types; this ‘mixed’ or ‘hybrid’ approach is the most applicable customer solution. See the graphic on the right-hand side.

![fne_license_platform.png](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-11/scaled-1680-/fne-license-platform.png)

*The Proxy Server efficiently converts the new license binary data format into the older binary data format for SmarTest 6/7 when a request is sent from the tester client.*

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## Efficient License Management: Renewal &amp; Changes

**With FNE/FNX license management means:**

- With an online connection to Advantest’s back-office server, zero efforts for annual license renewal are necessary
- Without an online connection, all transfers from the back-office server will be done within a single file

[![03migration.png](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-11/scaled-1680-/03migration.png)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-11/03migration.png)

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## Customer Self-rehosting 24x7

*Customer self-rehosting of test tool licenses from site A to site B and vice versa*  
*\*also works for FNE platforms or in combination: FNX/FNE*

[![selfrehosting.png](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-11/scaled-1680-/selfrehosting.png)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-11/selfrehosting.png)

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## Overview - New features: FNP vs. FNE or FNX

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-fnp-fne-technology-r" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><colgroup><col style="width: 19.5471%;"></col><col style="width: 37.663%;"></col><col style="width: 42.7899%;"></col></colgroup><thead><tr><td>  
</td><td>**FNP**</td><td>**FNE**</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>**Technology**</td><td>Revenera (aka Flexera) aging technology &gt; no support on FNP from vendor Revenera</td><td><span style="color: rgb(224, 62, 45);">**The state-of-art technology**</span> from Revenera (aka Flexera)</td></tr><tr><td>**Format**</td><td>**Multiple ASCII license files (incremental licensing)** &gt; Inefficient license management (e.g. manual handling of license files)</td><td>Single binary license file / database container  
(regenerative licensing)  
&gt; <span style="color: rgb(224, 62, 45);">**Efficient license management**</span></td></tr><tr><td>**Annual renewal effort**</td><td>**Required to clean up license duplicates** &gt; mainly from rehosting of licenses

**Manual effort every year**

**Need to manage licenses on a single license file &amp; entitlement level.**

</td><td>**<span style="color: rgb(224, 62, 45);">Significantly less effort</span>** (simple server synchronization) **<span style="color: rgb(224, 62, 45);">Zero effort with online connected FNE server</span>** Allows to manage licenses on server-level **<span style="color: rgb(224, 62, 45);">Once activated, contract licenses are automatically renewed</span>  
<span style="color: rgb(224, 62, 45);">with the annual renewal</span>**  
</td></tr><tr><td>**Rehost**</td><td>**Rehosting of licenses only via "service ticket"** &gt;Service charge fee needed</td><td><span style="color: rgb(224, 62, 45);">**Supports self-rehosting for customers 24x7**</span></td></tr><tr><td>**Management**</td><td>**No GUI tool for license management**</td><td>Provides state-of-the-art GUI based tools for efficient license management (FNE server viewer)</td></tr><tr><td>**Stability**</td><td>**License clients need to keep permanent connection with Server**</td><td>**Increased robustness**  
**&gt; More suitable for global license server set-ups and cloud licensing**</td></tr><tr><td>**SmarTest Support**</td><td>**SmarTest 5/6/7/8**

  
No support for EXA Scale  
No support for SmarTest 8 Device Specific Licensing and  
Cloud Licensing

</td><td><span style="color: rgb(224, 62, 45);">**SmartTest 5/6/7/8, all V93000, all license models**</span>  
&gt; FNE is fully backwards compatible with all existing SmarTest 5/6/7 releases via FNX server (FNE + FNP2FNE Proxy Server)  
&gt; supports all V93000 generations  
&gt; supports Device Specific Licensing and Cloud Licensing  
&gt; <span style="color: rgb(224, 62, 45);">**Required for EXA Scale and for advanced license models**</span> (device specific licensing &amp; cloud licensing)</td></tr></tbody></table>

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## High-level Migration Sample

[![06migration.png](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-11/scaled-1680-/06migration.png)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-11/06migration.png)

##### **Critical points for migrations:**

- For production migration without interruption, a new set of Servers / or virtual machines is required; - or at least for a workaround, a temporary Server set
- For the Customer, an individual new or new server architecture solution will be proposed by Advantest experts, derived from the as-is architecture, i.e.(single Server vs. failover, online vs. offline, new **FNE** vs. **FNX** Server; - f*or more details, see next slide*
- Selective existing licenses need to be migrated from **FNP** to **FNE** format
- With the parallel migration approach, a smooth switchover of individual tester clients is possible

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## As-is architecture cases

[![07migrationA.png](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-11/scaled-1680-/07migrationa.png)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-11/07migrationa.png)[![07migrationB.png](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-11/scaled-1680-/07migrationb.png)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-11/07migrationb.png)

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## Target Architecture Options: FNE or FNX

[![08migrationA.png](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-11/scaled-1680-/08migrationa.png)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-11/08migrationa.png)

[![08migrationB.png](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-11/scaled-1680-/08migrationb.png)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-11/08migrationb.png)

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## Migration Decision Path

[![09migration.png](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-11/scaled-1680-/09migration.png)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-11/09migration.png)

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## Migration Option-Matrix

[![10migration.png](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-11/scaled-1680-/10migration.png)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-11/10migration.png)

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## Migration Chart

##### **1. Solution Engagement, Timeline Proposal and Customer Timeline Commitment**

- Advantest presents migration motivation with technical guidelines
- Advantest proposes project timeline
- Customer gives feedback on a suitable/agreed timeline

##### **2. As-is architecture identification and Target architecture determination**

- Customer checks its current setup, configuration, and SmarTest versions
- Customer decides on its target solution and communicates it to Advantest

##### **3. Provisioning new HW and Configuration**

- Customer sets up required HW and network configuration and confirms its readiness
- Customer downloads and installs new License Server Application SW
- And does a 1st. registration at Advantest’s Portal, where he receives a 1st dummy license for testing
- Customer fills out license data migration form and provides it to Advantest

##### **4. Provisioning new License Database**

- Advantest runs the license data migration process, and parse data to safeguard error-free database

##### **5. Implementation of new License Database**

- Customer loads new License database into target systems
- And does, in case of an error, an exception handling with Advantest support

##### **6. Verification**

- Customer runs a new Configuration File for FNE or FNX tester clients
- And checks the functioning of the new setup

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## Migration Roadmap, Milestones, and Next steps

**[![12migration.png](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-11/scaled-1680-/12migration.png)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-11/12migration.png)**

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## FNE/FNX license server requirements

#### Hardware minimum configuration:

- **Quad core CPU, 8 GB RAM**
- **Free hard disk space**  
    o Primary &amp; Failover FNX Server: 12GB (FNE) + 12GB (FNX/FNP)  
    o Tertiary FNP Server (incl. FNP2FNE proxy software): neglectable (&lt; 100MB)  
    o Local license server with FNE/FNX on system controller as Hypervisor / VM set-up: 5GB (FNE) + 5GB  
    (FNX/FNP)

#### Operating system minimum configuration:

- Red Hat Linux 7.2 or newer
- Root access for installation
- Java 8
- License server must use fully qualified hostname (command hostname -f must not return localhost)

#### Tester Controllers suitable for local license servers:

- Z4 G4, Z640, Z620

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## FNE/FNX Network Settings

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-fne-%2F-fnx-server%3A-po" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 264.766px;"><colgroup><col style="width: 33.2879%;"></col><col style="width: 33.2879%;"></col><col style="width: 33.2879%;"></col></colgroup><thead><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="height: 29.7969px;">**FNE / FNX server:**</td><td style="height: 29.7969px;">**Port**  
</td><td style="height: 29.7969px;">**Protocol**  
</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr style="height: 48.5938px;"><td style="height: 48.5938px;">FNE core server (for ST8.x / 7.6.x FNE clients):</td><td style="height: 48.5938px;">7070</td><td style="height: 48.5938px;">HTTP</td></tr><tr style="height: 46.5938px;"><td style="height: 46.5938px;">FNP2FNE proxy (for ST 5 / 6 / ≤ 7.5 FNP clients):</td><td style="height: 46.5938px;">27000, 27020, 27019</td><td style="height: 46.5938px;">TCP</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="height: 29.7969px;">**FNE server viewer:**</td><td style="height: 29.7969px;">  
</td><td style="height: 29.7969px;">  
</td></tr><tr style="height: 63.3906px;"><td style="height: 63.3906px;">Online Connection to Advantest’s License Portal (license.advantest.com):</td><td style="height: 63.3906px;">7077</td><td style="height: 63.3906px;">HTTP</td></tr><tr style="height: 46.5938px;"><td style="height: 46.5938px;">-&gt; enables online connection for fully automated renewal</td><td style="height: 46.5938px;">443</td><td style="height: 46.5938px;">HTTP</td></tr></tbody></table>

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## Project Status License Migration Sample

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-phase-project-phase-" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><colgroup><col style="width: 10.7245%;"></col><col style="width: 42.3022%;"></col><col style="width: 31.816%;"></col><col style="width: 15.1335%;"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr><td>**Phase**</td><td>**Project phase**</td><td>**Lead**</td><td>**Period**</td></tr><tr><td>**1**  
</td><td>-**Solution Engagement &amp; Timeline Proposal**

  
-**Timeline Agree- &amp; Commitment**

</td><td>-Advantest

-Customer

</td><td>-1day

-7days

</td></tr><tr><td>**2**  
</td><td>**As-is architecture identification and Target** </td><td>Customer</td><td>2 weeks</td></tr><tr><td>**3**  
</td><td>**Provisioning new HW and Configuration**</td><td>Customer</td><td>1 month</td></tr><tr><td>**4**  
</td><td>**Provisioning new HW and Configuration**</td><td>Advantest</td><td>3 days</td></tr><tr><td>**5**  
</td><td>**Implementation of new License Database**</td><td class="align-left">Customer‘s representative name</td><td>2 weeks</td></tr><tr><td>**6**  
</td><td>**Verification of new License Database on 3x client**  
**testers**</td><td>Customer‘s representative name</td><td>2 weeks</td></tr><tr><td>**7**  
</td><td>**Project Closure**</td><td>Advantest/Customer‘s representative name</td><td>1 week</td></tr></tbody></table>

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## Project Status Summary: Sample

[![16migration.png](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-11/scaled-1680-/16migration.png)](https://lhc.advantest.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-11/16migration.png)