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An instance with active floating license seat will attempt to deactivate its seat automatically when the instance ends for any of the following reasons:
Normal shutdown requested by signal (i.e., SIGTERM)
Call to process.exit().
Abnormal shutdown due to uncaught exception or unhandled promise rejection.
Messages like this will appear at stdout and stderr as the instance shuts down to show progress and report errors:
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There are some scenarios where the seat cannot be deactivated automatically:
Unable to communicate with licensing server at shutdown time – i.e., network problem or outage.
Power loss.
Hardware failure/crash.
Process is force killed -- i.e., SIGKILL.
In some scenarios, instances running on Windows cannot deactivate automatically, due to Windows’s lack of signals. See Special Considerations for Windows.