Hi Rick,

I presented some of the options from a technical standpoint in an earlier post.  Questions like cost and availability of licenses should be discussed with your reseller and regional manager.

Basically, it depends on your setup as to whether a second master license would be beneficial. Your alternatives to a backup master license are failover clustering (requires Directory Server 10, a major upgrade from License Manager) or deactivation then reactivation.

It is possible to perform a deactivation of a master license even when the machine is down by following the instructions in KB:1012301.

To make sure you can perform the deactivation in a timely manner, you should take note of the License Manger machine hardware fingerprint and your master license activation key. Products like the Laserfiche Server do have a grace period to keep running that allows you to switch machines if necessary.

Note that you cannot have two versions of your production master license running simultaneously.