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1. 140 Bad message command 141 Error writing to socket Peer has closed socket 142 Error cannot generate version specific license tied to a single hostid which is composite 143 Version specific signatures are not supported for uncounted licenses 144 License template contains redundant signature specifiers 145 Bad V71_LK signature 146 Bad V71_SIGN signature 147 Bad V80_LK signature 148 Bad V80_SIGN signature 149 Bad V81_LK signature 150 Bad V81_SIGN signature 151 Bad V81_SIGN2 signature 152 Bad V84_LK signature 153 Bad V84_SIGN signature 154 Bad V84_SIGN2 signature 155 License key required but missing from the license certificate The application requires a license key in the license certificate You need to obtain a license key version of this certificate from your vendor 156 Invalid signature specified with the AUTH keyword 157 Trusted storage has been compromised repair needed Contact your vendor for repair instructions 158 Trusted storage open failure Contact your vendor for further information 159 Invalid fulfillment record Contact your vendor for further information 160 Invalid activation request received Contact your vendor for further information 161 No fulfillment exists in trusted storage which matches the request Contact your vendor for further information 144 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User
2. 27 Multiple Machines 0 002 ee eee eee eee 28 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 3 Contents Starting the License Server System 0 00 ccc eee eee tenes 28 One Machine with Multiple License Server Systems 29 Starting the License Server System 0 00 c cee cette eens 30 One Machine with One License Server System and Multiple License Files 30 Starting the License Server System 00 ccc ccc eee eee ees 31 Managing Multiple License Files 00000 e ee eee eee ee 32 Additional Considerations 0 000 ccc eee 33 Combining license files 2 00 ccc a 33 Starting the License Server System ccc ccc cette 34 Criteria for Combining License Files 0 ccc cece eee eee teen een ees 34 How to Combine License Files 0 0 0 00 cece cee eee tenet tenes 35 Version Component Compatibility 0 0 6 ee eee ee 36 Selecting License Server Machines 045 37 Resources Used by the Server 220 eee eee eee eee 37 SOCKETS scat hana baa na nG hares Gia ed een oes ALAPAN LA eee eee ere es 37 CPU TIME 7 55KG PIHIKAN PARAN BAND eee eee eee TEL EEEN ees 38 Disk Spac 2 38 MEMORY lt 2 22 nics co one a i i ee eh AA 38 Network BandWwidthiian 224ehar een teen teen teen eee fee eee ty 38 Remote Mounted Disks ccc eee tenet eee eens 39 Redundant License Server Systems
3. Argument Description daniel user User name myhost2 user_host Host where user is running 19 36 18 26 display Display where user is running v1 0 version Version of feature myhost1 server host Host where license server system is running 27000 port TCP P port on server host where license server system is running 102 handle License handle start Fri 5 3 7 29 8 checkout time Time that this license was checked out FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 4 License Administration Tools Imswitch The user user host display server host port and handle information is used when removing licenses with 1mremove Note Imstat a is a potentially expensive command With many active users this command generates a lot of network activity m Ability to list all active users using the A option available in 1mstat utility version 8 3 and earlier Imswitch The Imswitch utility switches the debug log file written by a particular vendor daemon by closing the existing debug log for that vendor daemon and starting a new debug log for that vendor daemon with a new file name It also starts a new debug log file written by that vendor daemon if one does not already exist Usage Imswitch c license file list vendor new debug log where Table 4 14 Imswitch Argument Argument Description C license file list Use the specified license files vendor Vendor daemon i
4. 00 000 ee eee eee ee eeee 39 Redundancy via License File List 0 0 ccc teens 40 Three Server Redundancy ccc eee teen tenet tent enes 40 Comparing Three Server to License File List 0 0 0 0 ccc cee eee ee 41 Counted vs Uncounted Licenses c eee ee ees 41 License Administration Tools 00 0 cee eee eee 43 Running Administration Tools 000 e eee eee ee 44 Universal Imutil Arguments 0 00 ee eee eee ee 45 IMB OFOW nn eee eek KAN ee es ee Rd te eat Se ew a a 45 Initiating Borrowing 0 ee eee eee eee eens 45 Clearing the Borrowed License Setting cece eee eee teen eee 46 Determining Borrowed License Status 0 ccc eee ee teens 47 Returning a Borrowed License Early 0 ccc eee eee 47 IMMS soe sees SSS D Ss eee wee bate boa BE MAG tee ear eed 48 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Contents Imdown 2S ijass sche Siesta SO ee Ba oS wens See Soke ad os ard eee So 49 IMhOStid KNA Wie he ek Coie Ree eho ee 50 Went ss ei os a ieee pee sho ee kink oo aoa a daaa a oat aa Ge Wadi a Ga wee ee Le ta a 51 Imnewlog ce setae ce a LG oe eae dae an Me ee ee a ae agate WE 52 WAU essa i Sa Se a a Knee erate AA AA 53 IMMPO MOVE iiaa a eee ee ed ok we ee wee oe ee PG wa ee ee a 54 IMPG6C AG gcse west ee ee ew hs Cee oe ae doe ie LG ee NAA 56 IMStat icant cewek DNA NG LAAL wee eee eee ae ee ace E 57 WM
5. AIX RS 6000 PPC 32 bit hostid uname m returns 000276513100 02765131 then remove last two digits and use remaining last eight digits DEC Alpha ethernet netstat i 080020005532 address HP 32 bit hostid uname i and convert to hex or 7 8DA450 or prepend with 2005771344 32 bit and 64 bit platforms non Itanium HP machine getconf ID_STRING 9c 766319 Dia napa NG CS PARTITION db72 d411 af62 64 bit identification IDENT then prefix with ID STRING 0060b05e4c05 Itanium Mac OS X ethernet sbin ifconfig eth0 and 000A277EA17E address remove colons from ether value FLEXid USB Imhostid flexid FLEXID 9 b28520b9 port dongle Linux ethernet sbin ifconfig eth0 and 00400516E525 address remove colons from HWaddr FLEXid USB Imhostid flexid FLEXID 9 b28520b9 port dongle Sco Hostid String uname x Serial is SCO00354 ID STRING SC000354 then prefix with ID STRING SGI 32 bit hostid etc sysinfo s convert to hex 69064C3C or or prefix 1762020412 SUN 32 bit hostid hostid 170a3472 ethernet Imhostid ether 00400516E525 address 100 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 7 Hostids for FLEXnet Licensing Supported Platforms Special FLEXnet Licensing Hostids Table 7 1 Alternate Hostid Procurement Methods Type this command on the Hardware Platform Hostid license server system Example Windows ethernet Imhostid OOBOA9DF9A32 address Disk serial DIR C look
6. Sample License File This is an example of a license file for a single vendor with two features SERVER my_server 17007ea8 1700 VENDOR sampled FEATURE f1 sampled 1 000 01 jan 2005 10 SIGN 9BFAC0316462 FEATURE f2 sampled 1 000 01 jan 2005 10 SIGN 1B9A308CCOF7 The license file above allows the license server system my_server with the hostid 17007ea8 to serve ten floating licenses for each feature f1 and f2 to any user on the network SERVER Lines The SERVER line specifies the host name and hostid of the license server system and the TCP IP port number of the license server manager 1mgrd Normally a license file has one SERVER line Three SERVER lines mean that you are using a three server redundant license server system The absence of a SERVER line means that every FEATURE and INCREMENT line in the license file is uncounted The hostids from the SERVER lines are computed into the license key or signature on every FEATURE and INCREMENT line For this reason make sure you keep SERVER lines together with any FEATURE INCREMENT lines as they were sent from the vendor The format of the SERVER line is 104 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 8 License File Format License File Syntax SERVER host hostid port PRIMARY_IS_MASTER HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL seconds where Table 8 1 SERVER Line Format Field Description host The system host name or IP address String returned b
7. Table 4 2 Imutil Valid Arguments Argument Description C license file path Most Imuti1 utilities need to know the path to the license file This is specified with a c license file path argument or by setting the LM LICENSE FILE environment variable Otherwise the default location is used The utilities also honor all VENDOR LICENSE FILE environment variables Some utilities take more than one license file path in a license file list separated by colons on UNIX and semicolons on Windows Pathnames that include spaces must be enclosed in double quotes help Displays usage information and exits V Displays the FLEXnet Licensing version of the utility and exits verbose Displays longer description for all errors found m VENDOR_LICENSE_FILE environment variable honored in utilities starting with version 7 0 utilities m verbose option introduced in version 6 0 of the utilities Imborrow Imborrow supports borrowing of licenses that contain the BORROW attribute It must be run on the machine where licenses are borrowed It is used to perform the following m Initiating borrowing by setting the borrow period m Clearing the borrow period Determining borrow status Returning a borrowed license early Initiating Borrowing To initiate borrowing the user sets the borrow period by running 1mborrow from the command line or through LMTOOLS FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Gu
8. num_lic Usage limit for this user or group feature Feature or package this limit applies to keyword value Feature name modifier to denote a group of licenses See Specifying Features for details type One of USER HOST DISPLAY INTERNET PROJECT GROUP or HOST_GROUP See Specifying License Restrictions Using Type for details name Name of an item of type type for which usage is limited group_name Name of the group to limit For example to limit the user jan to five licenses for feature 1 include the following line in the option file MAX 5 f1 USER jan MAX_BORROW_HOURS This option is used for licenses held in license files When licenses are available in trusted storage normally activation is provided instead of BORROW FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 79 Chapter 5 The Options File Options File Syntax MAX BORROW HOURS feature keyword value num hours Changes the maximum period a license can be borrowed from that specified in the license certificate for feature The new period must be less than that in the license certificate If multiple MAX BORROW HOURS keywords appear in the options file only the last one is applied to feature Table 5 17 MAX BORROW HOURS Terms Term Description feature Feature this borrow period applies to The license certificate for feature must have BORROW enabled keyword value Feature name modifier to denote a group of
9. REPORTLOG specifies the report log file for this vendor daemon It is recommended preceding the report_log_path with a character to append logging entries otherwise the file is overwritten each time the daemon is started On Windows pathnames that include spaces have to be enclosed in double quotes If Imgrd is started as a service the default location for the report log file is the c winnt System32 folder unless a fully qualified path is specified Note 452427 MANATEP 3 separate product available from Macrovision is used to process FLEXnet Licensing report log files FLEXnet Manager processes only report log files not debug log files Reporting on Projects with LM_PROJECT The FLEXnet Manager report writer reports on projects A project is set up by having all users working on the same project set their LM_PROJECT environment variable or registry on Windows to a string that describes the project FLEXnet Manager groups usage by project as defined by what LM_PROJECT was set to when the application was TUN FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 81 Chapter 5 The Options File Options File Syntax See Also Configuring the License Server Manager as a Windows Service FLEXnet Licensing Environment Variables The Report Log File RESERVE 82 This option applies to concurrent licenses held in license files and trusted storage RESERVE num lic feature keyword value type name group_
10. 150 Limiting Debug Log Output for a Vendor Daemon 0a 150 Debug Log Messages 0 00 cece eee eee eee ees 151 Informational MesSageS 0 ccc tenet ene nnnee 151 Configuration Problem Messages 00sec eee eee e eee e eee e eee enes 153 Daemon Software Error Messages 0 154 FLEXnet Licensing Versions 0 00000 cece eee eee 155 Version Compatibility with FLEXnet Licensing Components 155 Determining the License File Version 0000 cece eee e eens 156 Version Summary 0000 cece eee ee 156 MGR E EE dea EE A EE haba PAKANA AYANG ack hat 163 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Introduction to FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide This manual FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide describes the basic concepts of FLEXnet Licensing license models and concepts for designing license policies It contains the following chapters Table 1 Help Navigation Table Content Introduction to FLEXnet Provides an overview of the FLEXnet Licensing End User Licensing End User Guide Guide including Help Library conventions and usage Welcome to Macrovision Provides an overview of Macrovision Corporation including information about Technical Support online communites and other Macrovision products Chapter 1 License File Basics Contains basic information license files and their proper usage Chapter 2 Managing Li
11. Important Note Important notes are used for information that is essential for users to read Caution Cautions indicate that this information is critical to the success of the desired feature or product functionality Tip Tips are used to indicate helpful information that could assist you in better utilizing the desired function or feature Best Practices Best Practices alerts instruct you on the best way to accomplish a task D BP B Security Security alerts identify security issues Md Procedure The Procedure graphic indicates that procedural instructions follow Style Conventions The following style conventions are used throughout this documentation Table 3 Style Conventions Style Example Description User Interface On the File menu click Open User interface elements appear Elements in bold when referenced in tasks Variables fileName Variables appear in italics Code define HWND BROADCAST Oxffff Code snippets appear in a monospace typeface FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 11 Introduction to FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Documentation Conventions Table 3 Style Conventions cont Style User Inputted Text Example Type DCinstall Description Text that is to be entered as a literal value is displayed in a monospace typeface in bold and in blue File Name and Directory Paths My files are located
12. display Name of the display where the user is working as reported by Imstat a server host Name of the host on which the license server system is running port TCP IP port number where the license server system is running as reported by Imstat a handle License handle as reported by Imstat a The user user host display server host port and handle information must be obtained from the output of Imstat a 1mremove removes all instances of user on user host and display from usage of feature If the optional c license file list is specified the indicated files are used as the license file The h variation uses the server host port and license handle as reported by Imstat a Consider this example Imstat a output joe nirvana dev ttyp5 v1 000 cloud9 7654 102 start Fri 10 29 18 40 In this example the user is joe the user host is nirvana the display is dev typp5 the server host is cloudg the TCP IP port is 7654 and the license handle is 102 To remove this license issue one of the following commands Imremove f1 joe nirvana dev ttyp5 or FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 55 Chapter 4 License Administration Tools Imreread Imremove h f1 cloud9 7654 102 When removing by handle if licenses are grouped as duplicates all duplicate licenses are also removed If license lingering is set and 1mremove is used to reclaim the license Imr
13. m mdiag is used as a diagnostic tool to verify that the server is running and serving licenses FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 9 The License Server Manager Starting the License Server Manager on Windows Note This does not start the daemon until you reboot your license server machine Starting the License Server Manager on Windows It is not uncommon for the License Server Manager to be started on a Windows platform This section provides procedural information on manual starts from the command line and how to configure the License Server Manager as a service Manual Start from the Command Line d Task To start Imgrd from the command line 1 Start Imgrd asan application from a Windows command shell using the following syntax C flexlm gt Imgrd c license file list L debug log path where o license file list is one or more of the following e the full path to a single license file e a directory where all files named 1ic in that directory are used o debug log pathis the full path to the debug log file Prepending debug 1log path with the character appends logging entries Spaces in pathnames require double quotes around the path On Windows 1mgrd can be installed as a service to allow it to be started and stopped through a user interface and run in the background Configuring the License Server Manager as a Windows Service To configure a license server system as
14. All the data is the same as for a FEATURE or INCREMENT line with the addition of the from feat version field An UPGRADE line removes up to the number of licenses specified from any old version gt from feat version and creates a new version with that same number of licenses For example the two lines FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 8 License File Format Decimal Format INCREMENT f1 sampled 1 000 1 jan 2005 5 SIGN 9BFAC0316462 UPGRADE f1 sampled 1 000 2 000 1 jan 2005 2 SIGN 1B9A308CCOF7 provide three version 1 0 licenses of f1 and two version 2 0 licenses of fi An UPGRADE line operates on the closest preceding FEATURE or INCREMENT line with a version number that is gt from_feat_version and lt to_feat_version Note UPGRADE lines do not work for node locked uncounted licenses Decimal Format Licenses can be represented in decimal format Decimal has the advantage that it is simpler to type in and often the licenses are much shorter A simple demo license in readable format FEATURE f1 sampled 1 00 1 jan 2006 O key1 HOSTID DEMO and its decimal equivalent samp 1ed f1 00737 55296 1825 If needed decimal lines can be mixed with readable format lines in a license file Use the lminstall command to convert decimal licenses to readable format See Also Iminstall for additional information on the Iminstal1 command The decimal format was introduced in the ver
15. If this data were in file a b sampled licenses sampled opt then modify the license file VENDOR line as follows VENDOR sampled etc sampled sample_app sampled licenses sampled opt Limiting Access for Multiple Users Each INCLUDE INCLUDEALL INCLUDE_BORROW INCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT EXCLUDE EXCLUDEALL EXCLUDE_BORROW EXCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT MAX and RESERVE line must have a single user name or group listed To affect more than one user name create a GROUP For example to exclude bob howard and james from using the feature called toothbrush create the following options file EXCLUDE toothbrush USER bob EXCLUDE toothbrush USER howard EXCLUDE toothbrush USER james However there is an easier way Create a GROUP and exclude the list of users from using the feature Like the previous example the following options file excludes bob howard and james from using the feature called toothbrush FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 85 Chapter 5 The Options File Options File Examples First define the group Hackers GROUP Hackers bob howard james Then exclude the group EXCLUDE toothbrush GROUP Hackers Now when you want to allow or deny access to any feature to that group you have an alias list to make it simple Use HOST_GROUP to allow deny or reserve licenses for multiple hosts For example to exclude all users logged in on the hosts fred and barney from using a feature called f1 a
16. Note If you use the c license file list option the license files specified are read by Imreread not by Imgrd Imgrd rereads the file it read originally FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 4 License Administration Tools Imstat You can protect the unauthorized execution of 1mreread when you start up the license server manager Imgrd See Also Imgrd Command Line Syntax for details about securing access to Imreread Ability for vendor daemon to participate in rereading of its option file introduced in version 8 0 vendor daemon Imstat The Imstat utility helps you monitor the status of all network licensing activities including Daemons that are running m License files Users of individual features m Users of features served by a specific vendor daemon BORROW licenses borrowed Imstat prints information that it receives from the license server system therefore it does not report on unserved licenses such as uncounted licenses To report on an uncounted license the license must be added to a served license file and the application must be directed to use the license server system for that license file via host port host or USE_SERVER Queued users and licenses shared due to duplicate grouping are also not returned by Imstat Usage Imstat a c license file list f feature i feature s server S vendor t timeout_value where Table 4 12
17. The report log files are used to generate accurate usage reports by FLEXnet Manager If you have a lot of license activity these log files grow very large You need to consider where to put these files and how often to rotate and archive them The license administrator has the option to suppress log file output if disk space is at a premium It is recommended that the log files are local files on the server machines to avoid networking dependencies See Also Setting the Path with an Environment Variable Starting the License Server Manager on UNIX Platforms The Report Log File The Debug Log File Memory The FLEXnet license server system uses little memory On SunOS 1mgrd uses approximately 2 MB and the vendor daemons use approximately 2 MB each although memory usage increases in the vendor daemon with the size of the license file size of the options file and the number of concurrent users Network Bandwidth 38 FLEXnet Licensing sends relatively small amounts of data across the network Each transaction such as a checkout or checkin is typically satisfied with less than 1 KB of data transferred This means that FLEXnet Licensing can be effectively run over slow networks such as dial up SLIP lines for small numbers of clients FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 3 Selecting License Server Machines Redundant License Server Systems For a large number of FLEXenabled appli
18. daemon See Imnewlog for more details 148 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 The Debug Log File The license server system produces both debug log files and report log files The focus of this appendix is debug log files For information on report log files see The Report Log File A debug log file contains status and error messages useful for debugging the license server system A license server system always generates debug log output Some of the debug log output describes events specific to Imgrd and some of the debug log output describes events specific to each vendor daemon Managing Debug Log Output As 1mgrd and its vendor daemons run for a period of time the volume of this output increases As it gets older the value of the debug log output decreases therefore it may be necessary for you to separate old debug log output from current output either archive or delete the old output For performance it is suggested that each debug log file be a on disk that is local to the machine that is running 1mgrd and its vendor daemons However if the debug log file must be on a remotely mounted disk and you find that the license server system is too slow start lmgrd with the nfs_log option to improve performance See Debug Log Messages for a description of the debug log output format FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 149 Chapter E The Debug
19. host id is hostid1 determined with the 1mhost id utility This field is required for hostid2 uncounted licenses but can be used for counted licenses as well See hostidn Hostids for FLEXnet Licensing Supported Platforms for more information HOST BASED 1 Host names must be specified in INCLUDE statements in the end user options file and the number of hosts is limited to num lic or the number specified in n ISSUED dd mmm yyyy Date issued ISSUER Issuer of the license NOTICE A field for intellectual property notices FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 111 Chapter 8 License File Format License File Syntax Table 8 4 Vendor Supplied Attributes cont Attribute Description OVERDRAFT n The overdraft policy allows your vendor to specify a number of additional licenses which users are allowed to use in addition to the licenses they have purchased This allows your users to not be denied service when in a temporary overdraft state Usage above the license limit is reported by the FLEXnet Manager reporting tool PLATFORMS Usage is limited to the listed platforms SN serial_num Serial number used to identify FEATURE or INCREMENT lines START dad mmm yyyy Start date SUITE_DUP_GROUP Similar to DUP_GROUP but affects only the enabling FEATURE line for a package suite It limits the total number of users of the package to the
20. 27001 where myserver e host myserver e port 27001 within the default range SERVER myserver 17007ea8 where myserver e host myserver e port none specified uses a default TCP IP port number in the range of 27000 27009 On Windows if the application cannot find the license file the user is presented with a dialog that asks the user to specify the license file location the license server system or license fulfillment from the internet Since the vendor daemon keeps track of license usage and since the license file contains encrypted data to protect it against modification you may move and copy the license file as much as necessary For counted licenses no matter which option you choose you must first copy Imgrd and the vendor daemon to a location accessible by the FLEXenabled application Setting the Path with an Environment Variable 22 Most applications specify a location where they expect to find the license file and install it automatically However you can change the license file location by setting the LM LICENSE FILE environment variable to a license file list Wherever license file list is specified it can consist of the following components FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 1 License File Basics License File Format Overview m the full path to the license file m adirectory containing one or more license files with a lic extension m a
21. 8 Imnewlog Argument Usage Argument Description C license file list Use the specified license files feature Any feature in this license file vendor Vendor daemon in this license file renamed report log New Ng path where existing report log information is to be moved Impath The 1mpath utility allows direct control over FLEXnet license path settings It is used to add to override or get the current license path settings Usage Impath add override vendor all license file list where Table 4 9 Impath Argument Usage Argument Description add Prepends license file list to the current license file list or creates the license file list if it doesn t exist initializing it to license_file_list Duplicates are discarded override Overrides the existing license file list with 1icense_file_list If license file list is the null string the specified list is deleted e Impath override all Deletes the value of LM_LICENSE_FILE e mpath override vendor Deletes the value of VENDOR_LICENSE_FILE FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 53 Chapter 4 License Administration Tools Imremove Task Table 4 9 Impath Argument Usage Argument Description vendor A vendor daemon name Effects the value of VENDOR_LICENSE_FILE all Refers to all vendor daemons Effects the value of LM_LICENSE_FILE license_file_list A col
22. Borrowing with BORROW Imborrow vendor al1 enddate time where vendor is the vendor daemon that serves the licenses to be borrowed or a11 specifies all vendor daemons in the license server system enddate is the date the license is to be returned in dd mmm yyyy format time is optional and is specified in 24 hour format hh mm in the FLEXenabled application s local time If time is unspecified the checkout lasts until the end of the given end date For example Imborrow sampled 20 aug 2001 13 00 Setting the LM_BORROW Environment Variable Directly 94 The Imborrow utility is a user interface to set LM BORROW in either the registry Windows or in HOME f1exlmborrow UNIX LM BORROW can also be set directly as an environment variable today vendor al11 enddate time where Table 6 1 LM_BORROW Environment Variable Arguments Description today Today s date in dd mmm yyyy format Any checkouts done on this date create local borrow information If a checkout is done on a different date than this date no local borrowing information is created vendor Vendor daemon that serves the licenses to be borrowed or a11 specifies all vendor daemons in the license server system enddate Date the license is to be returned in dd mmm yyyy format time Optional time is specified in 24 hour format hh mm in the FLEXenabled application s local time If time is unspecified the checkout lasts until the end of the given
23. Guide Document revision 01 Chapter C FLEXnet Licensing Error Codes Error Code Descriptions Table C 1 FLEXnet Licensing Error Codes cont Error Code Description 162 Invalid activation response received Contact your vendor for further information 163 Cannot return the specified activation Contact your vendor for further information 164 Return count s would exceed the maximum for the fulfillment Contact your vendor for further information 165 No repair count left Contact your vendor for further repair authorization 166 Specified operation not allowed Contact your vendor for further information 167 The requested activation has been denied because the user or host is excluded from activating this entitlement by a specification in the options file 168 The options file contains include specifications for the entitlement and this user or host is not included in these specifications 500 Invalid server port number 501 Invalid value in license where an integer was expected 502 Invalid value supplied for count 503 Invalid hostid supplied in license 504 Invalid hostid type supplied 505 Bad feature line syntax 506 Internal FLEXnet Licensing error 507 Bad date format in license file 508 Bad SERVER line 509 Bad license string 510 Server s feature doesn t authenticate on client side 511 No license checked out 512 License
24. Imstat Argument Usage Argument Description a Displays all information C license file list Uses the specified license files f feature Displays users of feature If feature is not specified usage information for all features is displayed i feature Displays information from the FEATURE INCREMENT line for the specified feature or all features if feature is not specified FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 57 Chapter 4 License Administration Tools Imstat 58 Table 4 12 Imstat Argument Usage Argument Description s server Displays status of all license files listed in SVENDOR_LICENSE_FILE or SLM LICENSE FILE on server or on all servers if server is not specified S vendor Lists all users of vendor s features t timeout_value Sets connection timeout to timeout value This limits the amount of time 1mstat spends attempting to connect to Server The output of Imstat a looks similar to License server system status 27000 myhost1 License file s on myhost insta11 dir flexl1m v9 3 sun4 u5 counted lic myhost license server system UP MASTER v9 3 Vendor daemon status on myhost1 demo UP v9 3 Feature usage info Users of f1 Total of 4 licenses issued Total of 1 license in use f1 v1 0 vendor demo floating license daniel myhost2 19 36 18 26 v1 0 myhost1 27000 102 start Fri 5 3 7 29 where Table 4 13 Imstat Output
25. Log File Managing Debug Log Output Capturing Debug Log Output for a License Server System By default Imgrd and the vendor daemons it manages write debug log output to standard out To put this debug log output in a file either redirect the output of the license server system to a file or start Imgrd with the 1 debug_log_path option Capturing Debug Log Output for a Particular Vendor Daemon The debug log output from different vendor daemons controlled by the same license server system can be written to their own files version 8 0 and later vendor daemon There are two ways to do this m Add the DEBUGLOG line to the options file for each vendor daemon See DEBUGLOG for more details Invoke Imswitch on the vendor daemon See lmswitch for more details Note that 1mgrd writes its own debug log output to standard out Redirecting Debug Log Output for a Running Vendor Daemon It is possible to redirect the debug log output for a particular vendor daemon to a different file There are two ways to do this m Change the DEBUGLOG line to the options file for the vendor daemon and reread its options file by invoking Imreread See DEBUGLOG for more details Invoke Imswitch on the vendor daemon See lmswitch for more details Limiting Debug Log Output for a Vendor Daemon By default debug log output contains all events To limit the events that are logged for a particular vendor daemon add a NOLOG line to the options file of tha
26. The FLEXenabled application automatically uses the local borrowing data to do checkouts during the borrow period If enabled by the vendor borrowed licenses can be returned early that is before the borrow period expires Upon the earlier of either the expiration of the borrow period or the early return of a borrowed license the local borrowing data no longer authorizes checkouts and the license server system returns the borrowed license to the pool of available licenses No clock synchronization is required between the license server machine and the machine running the FLEXenabled application Initiating License Borrowing If a vendor has enabled license borrowing by issuing a license file that contains a FEATURE line with the BORROW keyword an end user initiates license borrowing in one of three ways m Using the borrowing interface in application if provided in the application Running the Imborrow utility to set LM BORROW m Setting the LM BORROW environment variable directly Application Interface The user initiates license borrowing this way only if the application provides a borrowing interface Information about this is supplied by the vendor Running the Imborrow Utility Imborrow is one of the Imuti1 LMTOOLS utilities To initiate borrowing the user runs Imborrow from the command line or through LMTOOLS FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 93 Chapter 6 Mobile Licensing License
27. a service you must have Administrator privileges FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 123 Chapter 9 The License Server Manager Starting the License Server Manager on Windows ag Task 124 To configure a license server system as a service Run LMTOOLS Click the Configuration using Services button and then click the Config Services tab In the Service Name type the name of the service that you want to define for example Myvendor License Manager In the Path to the Imgrd exe file field enter or browse to 1mgrd exe for this license server system In the Path to the license file field enter or browse to the license file for this license server system In the Path to the debug log file enter or browse to the debug log file that this license server system writes Prepending the debug log file name with the character appends logging entries The default location for the debug log file is the c winnt System32 folder To specify a different location make sure you specify a fully qualified path LMTOOLS by Macrovision Corporation http www_macrovision com DEMO License Manager install dini86 nIVmgrd exe install dini86 nIvcounted lic install dini85 nINmgrd di M Figure 9 1 completed LM_TOOLS screen 7 To save the new Myvendor License Manager service click Save Service FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document rev
28. as described in Managing Multiple License Files Each 1mgrd starts the vendor daemon referred to in its license files One Machine with One License Server System and Multiple License Files In this scenario one Imgrd process runs on the server machine and serves one or more vendor daemons each with one or more license files the license files usually are in the same directory The standard filename extension for license files is 1ic The number of vendor daemons is not limited by FLEXnet Licensing Figure 2 3 illustrates this scenario 30 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 2 Managing Licenses from Multiple Vendors One Machine with One License Server System and Multiple License Files License Server System Vendor Vendor Vendor ABC DEF XYZ Daemon Daemon Daemon Vendor ABC s Vendor XYZ s License Files License Files Vendor DEF s License Files Common License Directo Single License Server Machine Figure 2 3 One Imgrd Multiple License Files Advantages m The license files can be maintained separately Reduced administrative overhead Disadvantages m One Imgrd serves all vendor daemons If 1mgrd goes down all licensing is disabled m Ifthe machine goes down all licensing is disabled Output from all vendor daemons goes into one common debug log unless separate debug logs are specified with DEBUGLOG in each vendor s options file Having one common debug log m
29. at TCP IP port nnn nnn Retrying socket bind address in The license server systems try to bind their sockets for use approximately six minutes if they detect address in use errors Selected EXISTING master This license daemon has selected an existing master host host as the master SERVER shutdown requested A daemon was requested to shut down via a user generated ki11 command Server started on host for A possibly new server was started for the features listed feature_list Shutting down vendor The license server manager is shutting down the vendor daemon vendor SIGCHLD received Killing child A vendor daemon logs this message when a shutdown was servers requested by the license daemon 152 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter E The Debug Log File Debug Log Messages Table E 2 FLEXnet Licensing Information Messages Message Description Started vendor The license server manager logs this message whenever it starts a new vendor daemon Trying to connect to host The daemon is attempting a connection to host Configuration Problem Messages Table E 3 lists configuration problem messages found in FLEXnet Licensing Table E 3 FLEXnet Licensing Configuration Problem Messages Message host Not a valid server host exiting Description This daemon was run on an invalid host name host Wrong hostid exiting The hostid is wrong
30. by the EXCLUDE taking precedence Table 5 11 INCLUDE Terms feature Name of the feature or package being affected keyword value Feature name modifier to denote a group of licenses See Specifying Features for details type One of USER HOST DISPLAY INTERNET PROJECT GROUP or HOST_GROUP See Specifying License Restrictions Using Type for details FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 75 Chapter 5 The Options File Options File Syntax Table 5 11 INCLUDE Terms name Name of an item of type type for which license usage is included group_name Name of the group for which license usage is included To include user bob in the list of users able to use feature f1 INCLUDE f1 USER bob Note INCLUDE is required for USER_BASED or HOST_BASED features The system administrator specifies which users are allowed to use the product via INCLUDE and the license limits the number of users that are INCLUDEd INCLUDE_BORROW 76 This option is used for licenses held in license files When licenses are available in trusted storage normally activation is provided instead of BORROW INCLUDE_BORROW feature keyword value type name group_name Includes a user or predefined group of users in the list of who is allowed to borrow the BORROW feature Anyone not in an INCLUDE_BORROW statement is not allowed to borrow licenses EXCLUDE_BORROW supersedes INCLUDE_BORROW conflicts bet
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32. end date For example LM_BORROW 15 aug 2006 sampled 20 aug 2006 13 00 In this example one or more licenses served by the sampled vendor daemon are borrowed on August 15 2006 and are scheduled to be returned at 1 P M on August 20 2006 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 6 Mobile Licensing License Borrowing with BORROW Borrowing a License To borrow a license for a desired feature on the same day and the same machine that the end user runs 1mborrow or sets LM_BORROW and while still connected to the network the end user runs the application to check out and borrow the license If the end user runs the application more than once that day no duplicate license is borrowed No license is borrowed if the application is run on a day different than the date borrowing was set to be initiated For example say that today you want to borrow a license for the PageWizard feature for a week The PageWizard feature is served by the sampled vendor daemon Today while you are connected to the network run 1mborrow or set LM BORROW directly For example Imborrow sampled enddate Today after you run Imborrow while you are connected to the network run the application that checks out a license for the PageWizard feature After the license is checked out close the application and disconnect your machine from the network The license that you just checked out stays checked out from the li
33. example in preparation for a business trip or even during a business trip the end user fulfills a license that expires in five days that is node locked to their laptop Each fulfillment can be node locked to a different machine or even multiple times to the same machine thus allowing mobility of license usage within the pre paid number of license days This model is like pay per use because each fulfillment is made from a decreasing number license days It is different than other pay per use models because once node locked to a machine that machine is allowed unlimited use of the application until the license expires This short term license cannot be returned early once fulfilled those license days cannot be refunded Other pay per use models charge based on the number of times the application is used FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 97 Chapter 6 Mobile Licensing Fulfilled from a Prepaid License Pool 98 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Hostids for FLEXnet Licensing Supported Platforms FLEXnet Licensing uses different machine identifications for different machine architectures For example all Sun Microsystems machines have a unique hostid whereas all DEC machines do not For this reason the ethernet address is used on some machine architectures as the hostid An ethernet address is a 6 byte quantity with each byte specified as two h
34. file Version 3 0 May 1994 m INCREMENT and UPGRADE behavior changed and improved m Added UDP protocol support m Added uname i hostid for HP m Added multiple jobs for enhanced support of LM LICENSE FILE environment variable as a license file list New optional license file format with keyword value syntax for optional new features including asset info ISSUER and NOTICE license file continuation character 2 048 character limit per feature Version 4 0 December 1994 Removed use of floating point for enhanced reliability m FEATURE line additions ck OVERDRAFT DUP GROUP INTERNET hostid m PACKAGE line m License Finder m lmdiag and FLEXLM DIAGNOSTICS for end user diagnostics Version 4 1 May 1995 m Performance improvements and new platform support Version 4 1 Patch Release 6 October 1995 m Windows patch release for Windows 95 with various performance improvements FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 157 Chapter F FLEXnet Licensing Versions Version Summary 158 Version 5 0 March 1996 Improved port host behavior FLEXenabled application doesn t read license file Automatic port host via USE_SERVER line in license file Hostid lists lock a feature to several hostids New FEATURE attributes SN serial number USER BASED HOST BASED MINIMUM SUPERSEDE ISSUED issued date CAPACITY charging based on system capacity Optional avoidan
35. for Volume Serial DISK_SERIAL_NUM number Number is and remove 3e2e17fd FLEXid parallel Imhostid flexid FLEXID 8 b28520b9 or USB port dongle FLEXids are made available by your vendor Your vendor can also provide you with an installer that installs drivers for all FLEXids For parallel FLEXids the parallel port must be configured in bi directional mode Special FLEXnet Licensing Hostids FLEXnet Licensing contains a number of special hostid types that apply to all platforms These hostid types are valid to use in both SERVER lines and FEATURE lines wherever a hostid is required These are Table 7 2 Special Hostid Types Hostid Description ANY Locks the software to any machine meaning that it does not lock anything DEMO Similar to ANY but only for use with uncounted FEATURE lines COMPOSITE Locks the software to a composite hostid A composite hostid is a hashed composit_hostid 12 character hexidecimal value formed by combining the values of one or more simple hostids types as defined by the software vendor DISPLAY disp1 Locks the software to display display On UNIX display is dev ttyxx ay which is always dev tty when an application is run in the background or the X Display name On Windows it is the system name or in the case of a terminal server environment the terminal server client name version 8 or later FLEXenabled applications only HOSTNAME host Locks the software to computer host
36. joe barbara susan EXCLUDE coolsoft GROUP stars m IP address as a HOST specification introduced in version 8 vendor daemon m LM PROJECT environment variable introduced in version 5 client library and vendor daemon Colons in feature names introduced in version 8 vendor daemon BORROW LOWWATER This option is used for licenses held in license files When licenses are available in trusted storage activation is normally provided instead of BORROW BORROW LOWWATER feature keyword value n Sets the number of licenses for a BORROW feature that cannot be borrowed Table 5 2 BORROW LOWWATER Terms Term Description feature Name of feature being affected keyword value Feature name modifier to denote a group of licenses See Specifying Features for details n Number of licenses that cannot be borrowed via license borrowing For example if a feature f1 has a count of 10 and borrowing is enabled in the application and on the FEATURE line FEATURE f1 10 BORROW SIGN the following line in the options file allows only 7 licenses to be borrowed 68 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 5 The Options File Options File Syntax BORROW_LOWWATER f1 3 DEBUGLOG DEBUGLOG debug_log_path Specifies a location for the debug log output from the vendor daemon associated with this options file Preceding the debug_log path with a character appends logging entr
37. licenses See Specifying Features for details num_hours Number of hours in the new borrow period This value must be less than that specified in the license certificate for feature the default if not specified is 168 hours MAX_OVERDRAFT This option applies to concurrent licenses held in license files and trusted storage MAX_OVERDRAFT feature keyword value num lic Limits OVERDRAFT license usage below the OVERDRAFT allowed by the license file Table 5 18 MAX OVERDRAFT Terms Term Description feature Feature this limit applies to keyword value Feature name modifier to denote a group of licenses See Specifying Features for details num_lic Usage limit for this user or group NOLOG NOLOG IN OUT DENIED QUEUED Suppresses logging the selected type of event in the debug log file 80 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Task Task Chapter 5 The Options File Options File Syntax To turn off logging of checkins NOLOG IN Two separate NOLOG lines are required to turn off logging of checkouts and queued requests To turn off logging of checkouts and queued requests NOLOG DENIED NOLOG QUEUED Note License administrators use this option to reduce the size of the debug log file However it can reduce the usefulness of the debug log in debugging license server system problems See Also Imswitch REPORTLOG REPORTLOG report_log_path
38. m mdown and Imreread accept vendor vendor argument E START dd mmm yyyy optional license attribute Version 6 1 June 1998 Performance improvements Version 7 0 August 1999 m License Certificate Manager support for automatic license fulfillment Support for try before you buy licensing m License file handles inserted newlines from emailers m License lines automatically optimally sorted Improved LMTOOLS interface for Windows m Imgrd when run at command line on Windows runs in background by default Improved three server redundancy reliability version 7 0 vendor daemon and Imgrd m Imreread and Imdown take a11 argument to shut down or reread all Imgrds m Support registry Windows and HOME flexImrc UNIX for FLEXIm environment variables m Automatically install license path in registry or HOME flexImrc after successful checkout m Options support for LM PROJECT with PROJECT Performance improvements especially for Windows NT m Intel Pentium III CPU ID version 7 0d or later November 1999 Version 7 1 August 2000 m Security enhancements m SIGN keyword in license m Imnewlog utility version 7 0d or later vendor daemon Version 7 2 December 2000 Performance enhancements FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 159 Chapter F FLEXnet Licensing Versions Version Summary 160 Version 8 0 October 2001 Imborrow version 8 0 or later compo
39. number in the license file is incorrect Imdiag indicates each TCP IP port number that is listening and if it is an 1mgrd process 1mdiag indicates this as well If 1mdiag finds the vendor daemon for the feature being tested then it indicates the correct port number for the license file to correct the problem See Also FLEXLM_DIAGNOSTICS Imdown The 1mdown utility allows for the graceful shutdown of selected license daemons both Imgrd and selected vendor daemons on all machines Usage Imdown c license file list vendor vendor_daemon q a11 force where Table 4 6 Imdown Argument Usage Argument Description C license file list Use the specified license files Note that specifying c license file list is always recommended with 1mdown vendor vendor daemon Shut down only this vendor daemon 1mgrd continues running Requires version 6 0 1mdown and 1mgrd q Don t prompt or print a header Otherwise 1mdown asks Are you sure y n all If multiple servers are specified automatically shuts down all of them q is implied with a11 force If licenses are borrowed 1mdown runs only from the machine where the license server system is running and then only if the user adds force If Imdown encounters more than one server for example if c specifies a directory with many 1ic files and a11 is not specified a choice of license server systems to shut down is presented FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 F
40. number of licenses and allows the package to be shared among the users that have the SUITE checked out SUPERSEDE If this appears all licenses issued before the date specified in 1 f2 ISSUED are superseded by this line and become ineffective TS_OK FLEXnet Licensing detects when a node locked uncounted license is running under Windows Terminal Server To run the application via a Terminal Server client window TS_OK must be added to the FEATURE line Without TS_OK a user running on a Terminal Server client is denied a license USER_BASED n Users must be specified in INCLUDE statements in the end user options file and the number of users are limited to mum lic or the number specified in n VENDOR_STRING Vendor defined string enclosed in double quotes The following attributes listed in Table 8 5 are optional and are under control of the end user These attributes have a keyword value syntax where keyword is in lowercase Table 8 5 End User Attributes Attribute Description asset _info Additional information provided by the license administrator for asset management dist info Additional information provided by the software distributor sort nnn Specifies sort order of license file lines See Order of Precedence 112 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 8 License File Format License File Syntax Table 8 5 End User Attributes
41. port number The default if port is not specified is chosen by the operating system at run time Sites with Internet firewalls need to specify the TCP IP port number the daemon uses If a TCP IP port number is specified on the VENDOR line there may be a delay restarting the vendor daemon See Also The Options File for further information regarding options file contents vendor_daemon_path required in version 6 0 and earlier vendor daemon options file path required in version 6 0 and earlier vendor daemon VENDOR lines are known as DAEMON lines in the version 6 0 and earlier Imgrd and vendor daemon 108 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 8 License File Format License File Syntax Version 6 0 or Later VENDOR sampled Prior to Version 6 0 DAEMON sampled etc sampled etc sampled licenses sampled opt m The options keyword introduced in the version 5 0 vendor daemon USE_SERVER Line USE_SERVER takes no arguments and has no impact on the server When the application sees USE_SERVER it ignores everything in the license file except preceding SERVER lines and transfers checkout validation to the vendor daemon USE_SERVER is recommended since it improves performance when a license server system is used For uncounted features USE_SERVER is used to force logging of usage by the daemons FEATURE INCREMENT Lines A FEATURE line describes the license required to use a pro
42. syntax Imgrd c license file list L debug_log_path where m license file list is one or more of the following o the full path to a single license file o a directory where all files named 1ic in that directory are used o debug log path is the full path to the debug log file Prepending debug 10g path with the character appends logging entries Start lmgrd by a user other than root since processes started by root can introduce security risks If Imgrd must be started by the root user use the su command to run 1lmgrd as a non privileged user su username c Imgrd c license file list 1 debug log path where username is a non privileged user You must ensure that the vendor daemons listed in the license file have execute permissions for username The paths to all the vendor daemons in the license file are listed on each VENDOR line FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 121 Chapter 9 The License Server Manager Starting the License Server Manager on UNIX Platforms Automatical Start 122 On UNIX edit the appropriate boot script which may be etc rc boot etc rc local etc rc2 d Sxxx sbin rc2 d Sxxxx Include commands similar to the following See the following notes for a full explanation bin su daniel c echo starting Imgrd gt home flex1m v5 12 hp700_u9 boot 1log bin nohup bin su daniel c umask 022 home flex1m v5 12 hp700_u9 Imgrd c home flex1m v5 12
43. system limit for file descriptors The total number of sockets used by the license server system is slightly larger than the total number needed by the FLEXenabled applications which are served by it If the number of sockets required by the license server system on a single machine becomes excessive then it s probably good to split the license file into more than one file onto different servers to lighten the networking traffic which requires the vendor to agree to issue new licenses FLEXenabled applications then check out licenses from multiple servers using a license file list via the LM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 37 Chapter 3 Selecting License Server Machines Resources Used by the Server CPU Time For small numbers of clients the license server systems use very little CPU time The servers might have only a few seconds of CPU time after many days For a large number of clients who are each exchanging heartbeat messages with the server or for high checkout checkin activity levels hundreds per second the amount of CPU time consumed by the server may start to become significant although even here CPU usage is normally not high In this case you may need to ensure that the server machine you select has enough CPU cycles to spare Disk Space The only output files created by the license server systems are the debug and report log files
44. teen eee n eens 78 MAX rtirar een e e bond no oe ee ME AAAH AA AA 79 MAX BORROW HOURS 7 sees e024 eeheewes avec eee eee ee hi teevreryey sees 79 MAX OVERDRAFT 0 0 00 ccc cee eect net n teen eens 80 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 5 Contents NOLOG 2c ode vets ceteuveteeete rete eate sete revs eeve eevee gets seta eee es 80 REPORILOG 2232cshnbebeneennebheeerneenh ben kiibi t EEEE Ii NNE 81 Reporting on Projects with LM_PROJECT 1 0 0 0 0c ccc eee eee eee 81 RESERVE aamin eiei a aa LILA Pes ees 82 TIMEOUT 2 cs2cc c cccc520h en nea een need hand haa haa hk LE aR EE Rae 83 TIMEOQUTALL 3 occ t heed bode phd LA LIB LEG DLDDLLD DEL DL eddies 83 How the Vendor Daemon Uses the Options File 00000 eues 84 Rules of Precedence in Options Files a 84 Options File Examples 0 0 00 cece eee eee eens 85 Simple Options File Example 0 0 0c cee eee een nee 85 Limiting Access for Multiple Users 0 000 ccc cece tenet eens 85 EXCLUDE Example career a ee Ka O ad ee ee ee eee ee ee ee 86 EXCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT Example 0 0 00 c cece eect ene ne enans 86 INCLUDE Example 87 INCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT Example 0 000 ccc eee eee e tent ee eee eaes 87 6 Mobile Licensing KA GA sie KAKAI KARA EAA ADAH TARO 89 Node Locked to a Laptop Computer 0 0000 e cece 90 Node locked to a FLEXid Windows Only 2 0 065 406 ee be eee de eee dee eee de ew
45. these files becomes a single point of failure Three server redundant configurations are specified by including three SERVER lines in the license file The set of three SERVER lines must appear in the same order with each line for a given server being identical across all three files At any given moment in time Imgrd has a notion of the master server whose duties include m Serving licenses Recording information into the debug log m Recording usage information into the report log By default the primary server is the master the method of transitioning the master server duties in case of primary server failure is controlled by the PRIMARY IS MASTER parameter Why are three license server systems required in a redundant configuration In order to provide for license server system failover multiple redundant server systems each running on their own machine must be able to serve the same set of counted licenses However to ensure consistency and security of the software publisher s licenses these redundant license server systems must ensure that only one of them can serve licenses at any one time A given set of counted licenses is bound to the hostids of a specific number of redundant license server machines via SERVER lines in the license file In this way each license server system knows how to communicate with the other redundant license server systems that are bound to the same set of counted licenses Upon startup each ser
46. to diagnose problems when you cannot check out a license Usage Imdiag c license file list n feature keyword value where Table 4 5 Imdiag Argument Usage Argument Description C license file list Diagnose the specified files n Run in non interactive mode Imdiag does not prompt for any input in this mode In this mode extended connection diagnostics are not available feature Diagnose this feature only keyword value If a license file contains multiple lines for a particular feature select a particular line for 1mdiag to report on For example Imdiag f1 HOSTID 12345678 attempts a checkout on the line with the hostid 12345678 keyword is one of the following VERSION HOSTID EXPDATE KEY VENDOR_STRING ISSUER If no feature is specified 1mdi ag operates on all features in the license files in your list Imdiag first prints information about the license then attempts to check out each license If the checkout succeeds 1mdi ag indicates this If the checkout fails Imdiag gives you the reason for the failure If the checkout fails because Imdiag cannot connect to the license server system then you have the option of running extended connection diagnostics FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 4 License Administration Tools Imdown These extended diagnostics attempt to connect to each TCP IP port on the license server machine and detects if the port
47. type One of USER HOST GROUP or HOST GROUP See Specifying License Restrictions Using Type for details name Name of an item of type type for which license usage is included group name Name of the group to include To include the user claire in the list of users able to activate licenses provided in the fulfillment record specified by the entitlement Id AB456 INCLUDE ENTITLEMENT AB456 USER claire INCLUDEALL This option applies to concurrent licenses held in license files and trusted storage FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 77 Chapter 5 The Options File Options File Syntax INCLUDEALL type name group_name Includes a user or predefined group of users in the list of who is allowed to use all features served by this vendor daemon Anyone not in an INCLUDEALL statement is not allowed to use these features Table 5 14 INCLUDEALL Terms type One of USER HOST DISPLAY INTERNET PROJECT GROUP or HOST_GROUP See Specifying License Restrictions Using Type for details name Name of an item of type type for which license usage is included group_name Name of the group to include To allow the user jane to use all features served by this vendor daemon INCLUDEALL USER jane LINGER 78 This option applies to concurrent licenses held in license files and trusted storage LINGER feature keyword value seconds A lingering license stays checked out for a speci
48. with a SERVER line or three lines for three server redundant servers followed by one or more VENDOR lines followed by one or more FEATURE or INCREMENT lines In some cases the license file requires no SERVER line and no VENDOR line You can modify these elements in the license file Host names on the SERVER lines TCP IP port numbers on the SERVER lines Three server redundant configuration for a set of SERVER lines Paths on the VENDOR lines Options file paths on the VENDOR lines Optional TCP IP port numbers on the VENDOR lines for firewall support only USE_SERVER line Values in keyword value pairs on FEATURE lines if keyword is specified in lowercase Use the line continuation character to break up long lines Eight bit Latin based characters are fully supported in license files options files log files and FLEXenabled application environments See Counted vs Uncounted Licenses for more information on SERVER and VENDOR line requirements USE_SERVER introduced in the version 5 0 client library FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 103 Chapter 8 License File Format License File Syntax m Line continuation character is required with the version 7 0 and earlier client library m Fight bit Latin based character support introduced in the version 8 0 client library License File Syntax This section covers basic license file format including SERVER lines and VENDOR lines
49. 45 5 sca5 fehea te bhabbahnebeneheh hetene bathed anes 104 Three Server Redundant Configurations eect nee ene 106 VENDOR Lines a 107 USE SERVER LING 714 705 p bak KAR BRBREHRPHREERRARERERARELERARRREENNANNG 109 FEATURE INCREMENT Lines 2 2 22 0 00 cece eee eee eee tent n eens 109 Order of Precedente orrien ruren SG eG FSS ARRANGED NAGANA 113 PACKAGE LiNE Sr 3 2 4 5 5 434 44 5656 b nth b ae honda ed adddathbndhente andes 114 UPGRADE Lines ee eee e nen een een eens 116 Decimal Format x cs paba ses Rew eee ew ere ee ee NG ew ee ee 117 License File Order 0 00 cece eee 117 9 The License Server Manager 0 0 00 ccc eeu eaes 119 Imgrd Command Line Syntax annaran nrnna 119 Starting the License Server Manager on UNIX Platforms 121 Manual Start nah nkka ei pede bad eid ee ee 121 Automatical Start 0 cent nt tenet ene enns 122 Starting the License Server Manager on Windows 00005 123 Manual Start from the Command Line 0 0 ccc eens 123 Configuring the License Server Manager as a Windows Service 123 Manual Start from LMTOOLS 0 0 ccc ccc ete eens 125 Automatic Start at System Start Up onnaa aaan eee eee eae 126 A Troubleshooting Guide a 129 General Troubleshooting Hints 000 annann eee eee 129 FLEXLM_DIAGNOSTICS 00 0c cece eee eee 130 Level l Contents lt sesveeereeny ee NBI vee
50. 5 5 8CE46C57041D License 2 for tokyo SERVER tokyo 17a07e08 1700 VENDOR sampled etc mydaemon FEATURE f1 sampled 1 000 01 jan 2005 5 16BE40E1D98D FEATURE f2 sampled 1 000 01 jan 2005 5 6DB6F3E402DF The user in Chicago could set LM LICENSE FILE to 1700 chicago 1700 tokyo The user in Tokyo could set LM LICENSE FI UE to 1700 tokyo 1700 chi cago Remember to separate the license file names with a colon on UNIX and with a semicolon 5 on Windows The application attempts the first server in the list and if that fails for any reason the second server is tried Three Server Redundancy 40 The machines that comprise a three server redundant configuration are required to have excellent communications This form of redundancy requires that the servers exchange heartbeats periodically and poor communications can cause poor performance Avoid configuring redundant servers with slow communications or dial up links Three server redundancy is designed to provide hardware fail over protection only and does not provide load balancing Use LM LICENSE FIIE list instead if load balancing is desired This is because with three server redundancy only one of the three servers is master capable of issuing licenses Since all clients must contact the master all clients must have reliable networking to a single machine For more details see Three Server Redundant Configurations FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Gui
51. CENSE Macrovision products use MVSN LICENSE FILE Can be a file name or _FILE port host See also Setting the Path with an Environment Variable VENDOR_LICENSE_FILE requires version 6 0 and later clients FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 135 Chapter B FLEXnet Licensing Environment Variables Environment Variables 136 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 FLEXnet Licensing Error Codes This section documents FLEXnet Licensing error messages including general format and error message descriptions Error Message Format FLEXnet Licensing error messages presented by applications have the following components m FLEXnet Licensing Error Number a negative number starting at 1 m FLEXnet Licensing Error Text short sentence lt 80 characters summarizing problem m FLEXnet Licensing Error Explanation optional short paragraph 3 5 lines explaining problem and possible solutions or workarounds m FLEXnet Licensing Minor Error Number a positive number starting at 1 These numbers are unique error identifiers and are used by FLEXnet Licensing vendors for more advanced support assistance Their meaning is not documented m System Error Number optional a UNIX or Windows OS error code last set by the operating system m System Error Explanation optional a short sentence lt 80 characters explaining the system error m Other supp
52. ENTITLEMENT qf573k USER bob EXCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT qf573k HOST cordelia This options file m Prevents the users johns adrianp and maryt from activating any licenses contained in the fulfillment record obtained using the entitlement Id qf573k on any machine on the network m Prevents the user bob from activating any licenses contained in the fulfillment record obtained using the entitlement Id qf573k on any machine on the network m Prevents any user on the machine cordelia from activating any licenses contained in the fulfillment record obtained using the entitlement Id qf573k By implication allows any other users on any machine other than cordelia to activate the licenses contained in the fulfillment record obtained using the entitlement Id qf573k INCLUDE Example INCLUDE paint USER picasso INCLUDE paint USER mondrian INCLUDE paint HOST bigbrush This options file Allows the user picasso to use the feature paint on any machine on the network m Allows the user mondrian to use the feature paint on any machine on the network m Allows any user as long as they are on the host bigbrush to use feature paint m Denies access to the feature paint to anyone except picasso mondrian or anyone from the host bigbrush by implication INCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT Example INCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT gy7210 USER tom INCLUDE paint USER anthony INCLUDE paint HOST jupiter This options file m Allows the user tom to activate any licenses cont
53. FLEXNET LICENSING END USER GUIDE Product Version 11 4 Document revision 01 ma rovision Copyright Notice Copyright 2006 Macrovision Corporation and or Macrovision Europe Ltd All Rights Reserved This product contains proprietary and confidential technology provided by and owned by Macrovision Europe Ltd UK and Macrovision Corporation of Santa Clara California U S A Any use copying publication distribution display modification or transmission of such technology in whole or in part in any form or by any means without the prior express written permission of Macrovision Europe Ltd and Macrovision Corporation is strictly prohibited Except where expressly provided by Macrovision Europe Ltd and Macrovision Corporation in writing possession of this technology shall not be construed to confer any license or rights under any of Macrovision Europe Ltd and Macrovision Corporation s intellectual property rights whether by estoppel implication or otherwise ALL COPIES OF THE TECHNOLOGY and RELATED INFORMATION IF ALLOWED BY MACROVISION CORPORATION MUST DISPLAY THIS NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT AND OWNERSHIP IN FULL Trademarks Macrovision AdminStudio DemoNow DemoShield FLEXenabled FLEX m FLEXnet FLEXnet Certified FLEXnet Connector FLEXnet Manager FLEXnet Publisher Globetrotter Hawkeye InstallFromTheWeb InstallShield InstallShield Developer InstallShield DevStudio InstallShield Professional It All Starts Here OneCli
54. FLEXid are supported only where both the FLEXenabled application and the license server system are running on Windows A vendor issues a license file with a FEATURE line node locked to a FLEXid and containing the FLOAT_OK keyword and a FLEXid for that FEATURE line One FEATURE line containing the FLOAT_OK keyword and one FLEXid is needed for each instance of a license that is mobile When the FLEXid is attached to a license server machine the license floats on the network When the FLEXid is removed from the license server machine the license is available only on the standalone computer This method supports parallel or USB FLEXids Because it is simpler to attach multiple USB dongles to a computer USB FLEXids may be preferable 90 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 6 Mobile Licensing Node Locked to a FLEXid with FLOAT_OK Windows Only Initiating FLEXid with FLOAT_OK A vendor issues the end user a FLEXid a FLEXid driver installer and a license file that contains a FEATURE line node locked to that FLEXid containing the FLOAT_OK keyword An end user then 1 2 3 4 Installs the license file on the license server machine Attaches all of the FLEXids to the license server machine Installs the FLEXid driver on the license server machine Starts the license server system or rereads the license file While the FLEXids are attached to the license server machine the node locked lic
55. File When the vendor daemon is started by 1mgrd the vendor daemon reads its options file There is only one options file per vendor daemon and each vendor daemon needs its own options file For any changes in an options file to take effect the vendor daemon must read its options file The 1mreread utility causes the vendor daemon to reread its options file m The Imreread utility enhanced in version 8 0 vendor daemon so that it causes the vendor daemon to reread the options file If you are using earlier versions the vendor daemon must be stopped and restarted in order for the options file to be reread Rules of Precedence in Options Files Rules of precedence take effect when INCLUDE and EXCLUDE statements are combined in the same options file and control access to the same feature in license files or fulfillment record in trusted storage The following define the precedence when both types of statements appear together m Ifthere is only an EXCLUDE list everyone who is not on the list is allowed to use the feature m Ifthere is only an INCLUDE list only those users on the list are allowed to use the feature m If neither list exists everyone is allowed to use the feature m The EXCLUDE list is checked before the INCLUDE list someone who is on both lists is not allowed to use the feature Once you create an INCLUDE or EXCLUDE list everyone else is implicitly outside the group This feature allows you as an administrator t
56. G DUE TO SIGNAL nnn All daemons list the reason that the daemon has exited EXITING with code nnn FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 151 Chapter E The Debug Log File Debug Log Messages Table E 2 FLEXnet Licensing Information Messages Message Description EXPIRED feature feature has passed its expiration date IN feature user num_lic user has checked in num_lic licenses of feature licenses Lost connection to host A daemon can no longer communicate with its peer on node host which can cause the clients to have to reconnect or cause the number of daemons to go below the minimum number in which case clients may start exiting If the license daemons lose the connection to the master they kill all the vendor daemons vendor daemons shut themselves down Lost quorum The daemon lost quorum so it processes only connection requests from other daemons MULTIPLE vendor servers The license server manager Imgrd has detected that running Kill and restart license multiple vendor daemons for vendor are running Shutdown daemon Imgrd and all vendor daemons with the Imdown utility and then restart Imgrd OUT feature user num_lic user has checked out num_lic licenses of feature licenses RESERVE feature for USER user A license of feature is reserved for either user or host RESERVE feature for HOST host REStarted vendor internet port Vendor daemon vendor was restarted
57. II string If your hostid contains characters other than ASCII A through Z a through z or O through 9 use this option with Imhostid To view a correct representation of the resulting hostid use a utility such as Notepad that can display UTF 8 encoded strings The output of this command looks as follows Imhostid Copyright c 1989 2002 Macrovision Corporation The FLEX1m hostid of this machine is 69021c89 See Also Hostids for FLEXnet Licensing Supported Platforms Iminstall Introduced in version 6 0 1minsta11 is designed primarily for typing in decimal format licenses to generate a readable format license file FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 51 Chapter 4 License Administration Tools Imnewlog Task Task Task Usage Tminstall i in_lic_file maxlen n e err file o out lic file overfmt 2 3 4 5 5 1 6 7 7 1 83 odecimal Normally to convert from decimal to readable format Iminsta11 is used with no arguments you are prompted for the name of the output license file The default file name is today s date in yyyymmdd 1ic format Move this file to the application s default license file directory if specified by the software vendor Otherwise use the LM_LICENSE_FILE or VENDOR_LICENSE_FILE environment variables to specify the directory where the 1ic files are located To finish entering type q on a line by itself or enter two b
58. LEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 49 Chapter 4 License Administration Tools Imhostid Note On UNIX do not use ki11 9 to shut down license server systems On Windows if you must use the Task Manager to kill the FLEXnet Licensing service be sure to end the 1mgrd process first then all the vendor daemon processes When shutting down a three server redundant license server system there is a one minute delay before the servers shut down Imdown shuts down all three license server systems of a set of redundant license server systems If you need to shut down one of a set of redundant license server systems not recommended because you are left with two points of failure you must kill both the Imgrd and vendor daemon processes on that license server machine You can protect the unauthorized execution of 1mdown when you start up the license server manager Imgrd Shutting down the servers causes users to lose their licenses See Also Imgrd Command Line Syntax for details about securing access to 1mdown Imreread a11 option introduced in the version 7 0 1mdown utility force option introduced in the version 8 0 1mdown utility Imhostid 50 The Imhostid utility returns the FLEXnet Licensing hostid of the current platform Invoked without any arguments Imhostid displays the default hostid type for current platform Otherwise the hostid corresponding to the requested type is displayed if supported on the curren
59. Message Description UNSUPPORTED FEATURE The user has requested a feature that this vendor daemon request feature by user does not support This can happen for a number of reasons the license file is bad the feature has expired or the daemon is accessing the wrong license file Unknown host host The host name specified on a SERVER line in the license file does not exist in the network database probably etc hosts Daemon Software Error Messages Table E 4 lists various daemon software error messages Table E 4 Daemon Software Error Messages Message Description accept message An error was detected in the accept system call Can t allocate server table A malloc error Check swap space space Connection to host TIMED OUT The daemon could not connect to host Illegal connection request to A connection request was made to vendor but this vendor vendor daemon is not vendor read error message An error in a read system call was detected select message An error in a select system call was detected This is usually a sign of a system networking failure Server exiting The server is exiting This is normally due to an error 154 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 FLEXnet Licensing Versions Version Compatibility with FLEXnet Licensing Components In general always use the latest Imgrd and Imuti1 LMTOOLS both of which are available fr
60. OK license on the client computer The license server system allows only the single remaining FLOAT_OK license to float on the network After returning the FLEXid to the license server machine the end user or the system administrator runs Imreread so the returned license can float again m FLOAT OK keyword introduced in version 8 0 client library license server manager and vendor daemon All components must be version 8 0 or later in order to use FLOAT_OK 92 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 6 Mobile Licensing License Borrowing with BORROW License Borrowing with BORROW If a license is to be used on a computer that is intermittently connected to a license server system that license can be issued as a floating license with the BORROW keyword A BORROW license can be borrowed from a license server system via a special checkout and used later to run an application on a computer that is no longer connected to the license server system License borrowing must be enabled by a vendor before an end user can borrow licenses With license borrowing a vendor issues a floating license with a FEATURE line that contains the BORROW keyword An end user specifies the expiration date a borrowed license is to be returned and runs the application while connected to the network which writes borrowing information on the client computer The license server system keeps the borrowed license checked out
61. S WC fo as naaa shows a et We oe hoa a ee a a wt esate wee Get ecko ew age mS LT a la 59 IMSWICD iin Shc pee ene eek cet ak kaa eae ml 60 UAAP AA 61 License Administration Tools LMTOOLS for Windows 2 55 61 Configuration Using License File eet teens 62 Configuration Using Services tee eee n ees 62 5 The Options File a 63 Creating an Options File ees 64 Options File Syntax 2 0 nann cc es 64 BORROW LOWWATER 4 2 s 0 00 0000 204 e2ecubteronenbeed ote sted bebe teds 68 DEBUGLOG aces ocean eaee ate ene ae eens Phen eee ees 69 EXCLUDE Ss ois ana banawa a alata nade arate a rales a eae n sree a ane aha QR Ra RR 69 EXCLUDE BORROW 20200 0200 oc NG ae BAKA PN ae od ae aed Poe eee eee ed 70 EXCLUDE ENTITLEMENT 3 333 36x4 oe duu eee vey eee reese EEEE reese es 71 EXCLUDEALL 222 ccc eee teen teen eee n nee nnnes 71 FODN MATCHING 22 c22022206400500060000000000000400050 LARA 2055 25 72 GROUPS srono ee er ee ee were NAIG NABI eee ee ee ee ee on hE ee ee RS 74 GROUPCASEINSENSITIVE n n eee tenet n eee n nes 74 HOST GROUP sc 2265 ng ac KE KA BE ed ot ee ae a ASAL Se ee ee ed 75 INCLUDE 7 237 NE BIND PELE BELL BLK oe 8 ALAALA ECE EE CEE CREA ERELEANPNAGG 75 INCLUDE BORROW anuanua cette teen tenet tenes 76 INCLUDE ENTITLEMENT maa ctor tint tiottiotbrcthhohiacirneedaannees 77 INGLUDEALL cs pa wees ee pers Pee ae evar head oe ae Ov er OY EP RE Oe RP Oe ORAS ERAS 77 LINGER 2 een ete n
62. SEDE 112 syntax 114 TS_OK 112 USER_BASED 112 164 user_info 113 vendor daemon name 110 vendor_info 113 VENDOR_STRING 112 Feature line SUITE_DUP_GROUP 112 FLEXid with FLOAT_OK 90 FLEXLM_BATCH 134 FLEXLM_DIAGNOSTICS 130 level 1 130 level 2 131 level 3 131 FLEXLM TIMEOUT 134 FLEXnet Manager 81 FLOAT_OK 111 floating license 24 G GROUP type 74 GROUPCASEINSENSITIVE 74 H help Help Library conventions 10 Knowledge Base articles 16 Online Communities 17 Support Web site 16 HOST type 67 host SERVER line 105 HOST_BASED 111 HOST_GROUP type 75 HOSTID 111 hostid ANY 101 COMPOSITE 101 DEMO 101 DISPLAY 101 HOSTNAME 101 ID 102 INTERNET 102 SERVER line 105 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 special 101 USER 102 HOSTNAME hostid 101 http WWW Macrovision com services education index shtml 15 ID hostid 102 INCLUDE 75 INCLUDE_BORROW 76 INCLUDEALL 77 INCREMENT line 109 INTERNET hostid 102 type 67 ISSUED 111 ISSUER 111 K Knowledge Base articles help 16 L license borrowing 93 concurrent 24 floating 24 mixed 25 network license 24 node locked 25 license count 110 license directory 121 123 license file compatibility between different versions 35 DAEMON line 108 decimal format 117 FEATURE line 109 format 23 Index how to combine 34 INCREMENT line 109 Iminstall 51 order of lines 26 117 PACKAGE line 114 rereading after an update 56 SERVER line
63. acrovision Web site Macrovision offers a number of annually renewable maintenance plans to meet your specific needs m Choose the maintenance plan that best fits your needs and budget m Get personalized assistance from Macrovision s senior engineers and support technicians Visit http www macrovision com support index shtml today to find out more Expert Consulting Services Macrovision is the premier source for installation engineering updating enterprise software packaging software licensing and license management services worldwide m Get the additional expertise you need to complete your projects on time and on budget m Get professional results without tying up your company s internal resources m Work alongside our experts to learn invaluable techniques and best practices m Visit http www macrovision com consulting today to find out more or fill out our online form FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 15 Welcome to Macrovision Technical Support Resources Additional Contact Information Table 2 Additional Contact Information for Macrovision Professional Services Location Telephone Number The Americas Australia New Zealand 1 847 466 6000 Europe Middle East Africa 44 0 117 903 0650 Asia Pacific 81 3 5774 6253 Technical Support Resources Macrovision s Product Support Services team offers a set of comprehensive resources to help you find th
64. acters When using the option keywords EXCLUDE EXCLUDEALL EXCLUDE BORROW INCLUDE INCLUDEALL INCLUDE BORROW MAX and RESERVE the following values can be used for type m DISPLAY display where the application is displayed On UNIX DISPLAY is dev ttyxx which is always dev tty when an application is run in the background or the X Display name On Windows it is the system name or in the case of a terminal server environment the terminal server client name Display names are case sensitive m INTERNET IP address of the machine where the application is executing wildcard characters can be used in the IP address m PROJECT LM PROJECT environment variable set by the user who is executing the FLEXenabled application Project names are case sensitive On Windows without terminal server the HOST and DISPLAY names are both set to the Window s system name For licenses that allow checkouts from a terminal server TS_OK keyword in the feature line the USER HOST and DISPLAY names can be different from one another FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 67 Chapter 5 The Options File Options File Syntax The types listed above take a single member For example EXCLUDE coolsoft USER joe To specify a list of users or hosts first define the list using the GROUP or HOST_GROUP option lines then use the GROUP or HOST_GROUP type to specify the group name For example GROUP stars
65. ae ee ee eee eee Pee REAL LED YNG 130 Level 2 Content 0 ccc eee teen ete e eee e ete e enna 131 Level 3 Content Version 6 0 or Later Only 0 0 0 0c ccc eee eee 131 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 7 Contents FLEXnet Licensing Environment Variables 133 How to Set Environment Variables 0 0 000 cece eee eee 133 Registry eee eee teen nett ena 133 Preced nC i 34 04s24544 eee ee45945 45495 4 e0 49 e4 edhe ERE 134 Environment Variables 00 00 eee eee 134 FLEXnet Licensing Error Codes a 137 Error Message Format 000 cece eee eee eee eee 137 Format 1 Short 0 ce eee tenet tent ee nee ene 138 Format 2 long version 6 0 and later nonnen ee ee eee 138 Error Code Descriptions 0000 cee eee 138 The Report Log File 00 0 0 ccc eee nes 147 Managing Report Log Output 0 2 0 0 cee eee 147 Enabling Report Log Output for a Vendor Daemon 00005 148 Redirecting Report Log Output for a Vendor Daemon 148 The Debug Log File cic diccad PGKA EARL daca ee Rend REPA DA 149 Managing Debug Log Output 2 000 cee 149 Capturing Debug Log Output for a License Server System 150 Capturing Debug Log Output for a Particular Vendor Daemon 150 Redirecting Debug Log Output for a Running Vendor Daemon
66. age among users MAX_BORROW_HOURS Changes the maximum borrow period for the specified feature MAX_OVERDRAFT Limit overdraft usage to less than the amount specified in the license FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 65 Chapter 5 The Options File Options File Syntax 66 Table 5 1 Option Keywords cont Option Keyword Description NOLOG Turn off logging of certain items in the debug log file REPORTLOG Specify that a report log file suitable for use by the FLEXnet Manager license usage reporting tool be written RESERVE Reserve licenses for a user or group of users hosts TIMEOUT Specify idle timeout for a feature returning it to the free pool for use by another user TIMEOUTALL Set timeout on all features Comments Include comments in your options file by starting each comment line with a pound sign Specifying Features When used within an options file entry the feature name can be modified with an optional keyword value pair to fully qualify it This notation is used for distinguishing a particular group of licenses when there are multiple FEATURE lines for a single feature The following syntax is used feature keyword value For example f1 VERSION 2 0 specifies the version 2 0 pool of licenses for feature fi Note A colon is a valid feature name character If colons are in your feature names specify a group of licenses with the following alternative sy
67. ager Limited to 30 characters Version 5 0 or later client required This can also be used to RESERVE INCLUDE and so on licenses with PROJECT For example RESERVE 1 f1 PROJECT airplane Version 5 0 and later clients and version 7 0 and later vendor daemons are required for this feature Used to set the highest file descriptor value above which the license server will not access FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter B FLEXnet Licensing Environment Variables Environment Variables Table B 1 FLEXnet Licensing Environment Variables Variable Definition LM UTIL CASE S Used by the FLEX m utilities If set to 1 the utilities process license file lines ENSITIVE as case sensitive By default this variable is set to 0 license files are treated as case insensitive This environment variable is applicable only when the license server itself has been configured by your vendor to treat license files in a case sensitive manner TCP NODELAY Improves FLEXnet license server system performance when processing license requests Set to 1 to enable performance enhancements Use with caution when enabled it may cause an increase in network traffic LM LICENSE FILE Reset path to license file Can be a license file list separated by on Or UNIX and on Windows If VENDOR LICENSE FILE used VENDOR is the vendor daemon name used by this application For example VENDOR LI
68. ained in the fulfillment record obtained using the entitlement Id gy7210 on any machine on the network m Allows the user anthony to activate any licenses contained in the fulfillment record obtained using the entitlement Id gy7210 on any machine on the network m Allows any user as long as they are on the host jupiter to activate any licenses contained in the fulfillment record obtained using the entitlement Id gy7210 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 87 Chapter 5 The Options File Options File Examples m By implication denies the activation of any licenses contained in the fulfillment record obtained using the entitlement Id gy7210 to anyone except tom anthony or anyone using the host jupiter 88 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Mobile Licensing End users often want to use applications on computers that do not have a continuous connection to a FLEXnet license server system These situations include Working on a laptop Using a computer both at work and at home Working from several different computers not connected to a license server system FLEXnet Licensing supports licenses that allow one of several kinds of mobile licensing Node locked to a laptop m Node locked to a FLEXid Windows only Node locked to a FLEXid with FLOAT OK keyword Windows only m License borrowing with BORROW keyword Node locked to a user n
69. ake sure each user that needs the uncounted license has direct access to a current copy of the file The advantage to placing USE_SERVER right after the SERVER line is users don t need up to date copies of the license file See Also Order of Precedence 118 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 The License Server Manager The license server manager 1mgrd is one of two FLEXnet Licensing components that make up a license server system the other being the vendor daemon It handles the initial contact with FLEXenabled applications passing the connection on to the appropriate vendor daemon The purpose of the license server manager Imgrd is to m Start and maintain all the vendor daemons listed in the VENDOR lines of the license file Refer application checkout or other requests to the correct vendor daemon A newer Imgrd can be used with an older vendor daemon or FLEXenabled application but a newer vendor daemon or FLEXenabled application might not work properly with an older 1mgrd Always use the newest version of 1mgrd as possible which is available for download from www macrovision com Imgrd Command Line Syntax Imgrd is the main daemon for FLEXnet Licensing When you invoke 1mgrd it looks for a license file that contains information about vendors and features and starts those vendor daemons FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 119 Cha
70. akes it harder to debug a single vendor daemon s problem m Maximizes licensing load to one machine and one Imgrd process Starting the License Server System Kag Task To start the license server system m Invoke the license server manager once on the server machine FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 31 Chapter 2 Managing Licenses from Multiple Vendors Managing Multiple License Files Imgrd c common license directory Imgrd processes all files with the 1ic extension in common license directory and starts all vendor daemons referred to in those files so there is no need to enumerate each license file name on the Imgrd command line See Also Managing Multiple License Files Capturing Debug Log Output for a Particular Vendor Daemon Ability for one Imgrd to process multiple license files introduced in version 6 0 Imgrd Managing Multiple License Files 32 You can manage multiple license files that are on the same server machine via a license file list A license file list is specified two ways By using the c option to Imgrd Imgrd c license file list other Imgrd options m By defining the LM LICENSE FILE environment variable within the scope of the Imgrd process s environment Install the license files in convenient locations on the server machine and then define the license file list Wherever license file list is specified it consists of a list of one or more of
71. already checked out 513 Error list returned 514 No certicom module available FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 145 Chapter C FLEXnet Licensing Error Codes Error Code Descriptions Table C 1 FLEXnet Licensing Error Codes cont Error Code Description 515 Wrong or incomplete certicom module 516 SIGN or SIGN2 required in license certificate 517 Feature object has no license sources 518 An Identical license is already checked out on this license source 519 This license has an asynchronously queued checkout pending 521 Library for native hostid could not be loaded 522 Already connected to another vendor daemon 523 No such user host or display 524 Shutdown of license server system failed 525 Shutdown failed already connected to license server system 526 Invalid license source string 527 Log file switch error a Indicates errors due to an operating system failure 146 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 The Report Log File The license server system produces both report log files and debug log files The focus of this appendix is report log files For information on debug log files see The Debug Log File The report log file contains feature usage information and is generated by the vendor daemon However a vendor daemon does not write report logs by default this actio
72. ame m Fulfilled from a prepaid license pool License rehosting is the consequence of an end user wanting to move a license without using one of these methods This means a new node locked license file is generated by the vendor for each new client computer Rehosting incurs administrative overhead because the vendor is involved for each move FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 89 Chapter 6 Mobile Licensing Node Locked to a Laptop Computer Node Locked to a Laptop Computer If a license is to be used exclusively on one laptop computer that license is simply node locked to an address associated with that computer The license file resides on the laptop computer Node locked to a FLEXid Windows Only If a license is to be moved between different Windows machines it is node locked to a FLEXid a dongle that connects to a parallel or USB port This license is moved between machines by installing a copy of the license file on each machine and moving the FLEXid from one machine to another Since the license is tied to the FLEXid only the machine with the FLEXid has use of the license Node Locked to a FLEXid with FLOAT OK Windows Only This method of license mobility has an advantage over simply using a license node locked to a FLEXid because the FLEXid is attached to a license server machine and its license floats on the network Licenses with a FLOAT_OK keyword that are node locked to a
73. ame and path Imgrd uses this line to start the vendor daemon and the vendor daemon reads it to find its options file The format of the VENDOR line is shown below FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 107 Chapter 8 License File Format License File Syntax VENDOR vendor vendor_daemon_path OPTIONS options file path PORT port where Table 8 2 VENDOR Line Format Description vendor Name of the vendor daemon used to serve some features in the file This name cannot be changed by the administrator vendor daemon path Optional path to the executable for this daemon Generally the license administrator is free to install the daemon in any directory It is recommended however that it be installed in a local directory on the license server machine If omitted 1mgrd looks for the vendor daemon binary in e the current directory e the path specified in Imgrd s PATH environment variable e in the directory where 1mgrd is located If vendor daemon path is blank then any options or TCP IP port number specifications require the OPTIONS and PORT strings options file Full path to the end user options file for this daemon FLEXnet path Licensing does not require an options file If omitted the vendor daemon by default looks for a file called vendor opt where vendor Is the vendor daemon name located in the same directory as the license file port Vendor daemon TCP IP
74. ame of an item of type type for which license usage is excluded group_name Name of the group to exclude FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 69 Chapter 5 The Options File Options File Syntax Nag Task To exclude the user hank from the list of users able to use feature f1 EXCLUDE f1 USER hank EXCLUDE_BORROW This option is used for licenses held in license files When licenses are available in trusted storage activation is normally provided instead of BORROW EXCLUDE_BORROW feature keyword value type name group_name Excludes a user or predefined group of users from the list of who is allowed to borrow licenses for this BORROW feature EXCLUDE_BORROW supersedes INCLUDE_BORROW conflicts between the EXCLUDE BORROW list and the INCLUDE_BORROW list are resolved by the EXCLUDE_BORROW taking precedence Table 5 4 EXCLUDE_BORROW Terms Description feature Name of the feature being affected keyword value Feature name modifier to denote a group of licenses See Specifying Features for details type One of USER HOST DISPLAY INTERNET PROJECT GROUP or HOST_GROUP See Specifying License Restrictions Using Type for details name Name of an item of type type for which license borrowing is excluded group_name Name of the group to exclude from borrowing 70 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 5 The Op
75. ange 105 SERVER line 105 VENDOR line 108 precedence or FEATURE lines 113 Index product support Macrovision 15 Professional Services Macrovision 14 PROJECT type 67 R redundant servers selecting server nodes 39 separate license files 121 SERVER lines 104 three server redundancy 40 via license file list 40 rehosting license 89 remote disks guidelines for using 39 report log file 38 reporting on project 81 REPORTLOG 81 RESERVE 82 restricting access Imdown 120 Imremove 120 Imreread 120 S SERVER line 104 combining license files 35 default port numbers 105 host 105 hostid 105 port number 105 redundant servers 104 syntax 104 setting environment variables 133 SIGN 110 116 signature 110 116 SN 112 sockets number used by license server 37 sort 112 specifying location of license file 21 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 167 Index START 112 starting Imgrd 121 status of license server 57 SUITE_DUP_GROUP 112 SUPERSEDE 112 switching debug log Imswitch 59 switching report log Imnewlog 52 Imswitchr 60 y Technical Support Macrovision 16 three server redundancy 40 TIMEOUT 83 TIMEOUTALL 83 training Macrovision 14 troubleshooting with FLEXLM_DIAGNOSTICS 130 with Imdiag 48 TS_OK 112 U UPGRADE line syntax 116 USE_SERVER line 109 USER hostid 102 USER type 67 USER_BASED 112 user_info 113 V vendor daemon and redundant servers 106 121 debug lo
76. at requests must go to the license server system for authorization uncounted keyword introduced in version 6 FLEXnet Licensing client library 42 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 License Administration Tools FLEXnet Licensing provides utilities for the license administrator to help manage the licensing activities on the network Always use the newest version of the utilities as possible they are available for download from www macrovision com Table 4 1 lists these utilities Table 4 1 License Administration Utilities Description Imborrow Supports license borrowing Imdiag Diagnoses license checkout problems Imdown Gracefully shuts down selected license daemons both Imgrd and all vendor daemons on the license server machine or on all three machines in the case of three server redundant servers Imhostid Reports the hostid of a system Iminstall Converts license files between different formats Imnewlog Moves existing report log information to a new file name and starts a new report log file with existing file name Impath Allows users direct control over license file path settings Imremove Releases a hung license to the pool of free licenses Imreread Causes the license daemon to reread the license file and start any new vendor daemons FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 43 Chapter 4 License Ad
77. ated as case insensitive By default GROUPCASEINSENSITIVE is OFF and user names and host names are treated as case sensitive 74 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 5 The Options File Options File Syntax HOST_GROUP HOST_GROUP group_name host_list Defines a group of hosts for use in INCLUDE INCLUDEALL INCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT EXCLUDE EXCLUDEALL EXCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT and RESERVE option lines Multiple HOST_GROUP lines add all the specified hosts into the group Table 5 10 HOST_GROUP Terms group_name Name of the group being defined Host group names are case sensitive host_list List of host names in that group Names are case sensitive Set the GROUPCASEINSENSITIVE options file keyword to turn on case insensitivity See GROUPCASEINSENSITIVE To define the host group Pacific consisting of tokyo seattle and auckland HOST_GROUP Pacific tokyo seattle auckland Anywhere a host name can be used in an options file an IP address can be used instead INCLUDE This option applies to concurrent licenses held in license files and trusted storage INCLUDE feature keyword value type name group_name Includes a user or predefined group of users in the list of who is allowed to use licenses for this feature Anyone not in an INCLUDE statement is not allowed to use that feature EXCLUDE supersedes INCLUDE conflicts between the EXCLUDE list and the INCLUDE list are resolved
78. ature vendor feat version exp date num lic license key optional atributes The version 7 1 and earlier format is understood by the current client library and vendor daemon FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 113 Chapter 8 License File Format License File Syntax m The SIGN keyword introduced in the version 7 1 client library and vendor daemon m For version 7 1 through version 8 0 client libraries and vendor daemons the FEATURE INCREMENT line must have a SIGN signature and for backward compatibility with version 8 1 and earlier can contain a license_key FEATURE INCREMENT feature vendor feat version exp date num_lic license_key SIGN sign optional_attributes m license key obsoleted in version 8 1 client library and vendor daemon m The keyword permanent for exp date introduced in version 6 client library m The keyword uncounted for num lic introduced in version 6 client library BORROW keyword introduced in version 8 0 client library and vendor daemon m FLOAT OK keyword introduced in version 8 0 client library and vendor daemon m TS OK keyword introduced in version 8 0 client library and vendor daemon m AUTH keyword introduced in version 10 8 client library and vendor daemon PACKAGE Lines The purpose of the PACKAGE line is to support two different licensing needs To license a product SUITE or To provide a more efficient way of distributing a l
79. c license file list feature new report log or With version 5 0 or later vendor daemon Imswitchr c license file list vendor new report log where Table 4 15 Imswitchr Argument Usage Argument Description C license file list Use the specified license files feature Any feature in this license file vendor Vendor daemon in this license file new report log Path to new report log file If report logging is not enabled for the vendor daemon 1mswi tchr tells it to start writing its report log output to new report log If report logging is already enabled for the vendor daemon Imswitchr tells the vendor daemon to close its report log file and start writing its new report log output to new report log Note The effect of 1mswi tchr continues only until the vendor daemon is shut down or its options file is reread via Imreread When the vendor daemon is restarted or its options file is reread it looks FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 4 License Administration Tools Imver for a REPORTLOG line in the options file to determine whether or not to write report log output to a file and if so what file to write See Also REPORTLOG Imnewlog Imreread The Report Log File Imver The Imver utility reports the FLEXnet Licensing version of a library or binary file Usage Imver filename where filename is one of the following m the name of an executable file built wi
80. cations hundreds each of which exchange heartbeat messages with the vendor daemon the network bandwidth used may start to become significant In this case run the FLEXenabled application and server on the same local area network which may require splitting licenses between two files for two servers Users can use a license file list in the LM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable to have effective access to both servers See Also Specifying Location of the License File Remote Mounted Disks Macrovision recommends that you do not use remote mounted disks when you run the license server system In other words it is recommended that 1mgrd the vendor daemons the license file and the debug and report log files are all on locally mounted disks If any of these files is on a remote mounted disk you double the points of failure which could lead to a temporary loss of all of your licenses When all files are mounted locally the licenses are available as long as the server machine is up but when the files are on a different machine then the loss of either the license server machine or the file server machine causes the licenses to be unavailable Redundant License Server Systems If you wish to use redundant license server systems select stable machines in other words do not pick machines that are frequently rebooted or shut down for one reason or another Redundant license server machines are any that support a license server system FLEXne
81. ce of NIS and DNS via IP address instead of host name Improved report log file format Server upon startup notifies of licenses that expire within two weeks Improved end user options file functionality Version 5 11 February 1997 SUPERSEDE lists PLATFORMS license attribute new end user options MAX TIMEOUTALL Windows control panel added Windows license generator GENLIC added Version 5 12 April 1997 Performance improvements and new platform support Version 6 0 September 1997 1mgrd can read multiple license files FLEXlm license directory support 1ic automatically used License files require no editing for use at the end user site Optional path on DAEMON VENDOR line SPATH environment variable used Decimal license format with Iminsta11 utility for typing in licenses FEATURE lines are shorter easier to understand and type in PACKAGE lines can be shipped in separate files that never require user editing Default TCP IP port numbers make SERVER line port number optional Default end user options file path this_host host name supported on SERVER line VENDOR_LICENSE_FILE supported for example MVSN_LICENSE_FILE FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter F FLEXnet Licensing Versions Version Summary m host supported where default port numbers are used m Windows only user prompted for license file or license server name m License files are optionally case insensitive
82. cense server system until the borrow period expires that license now is used on your disconnected machine until the borrow period expires Once checked out it remains checked out for the full borrow period The borrow period cannot be renewed until the period has expired Clearing the Borrow Period Once you have borrowed all the licenses that you need for the current borrow period defined by the LM BORROW environment variable prevent licenses for any additional features from being borrowed by running Imborrow clear This clears the LM_BORROW setting in the registry Windows or HOME flex mborrow UNIX Imborrow clear does not clear the local information about licenses you have already borrowed Checking Borrow Status Kag Task To print information about borrowed features 1 Issue the following command on the machine from which they are borrowed Imborrow status The borrowing system does not have to be connected to the network to determine the status FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 95 Chapter 6 Mobile Licensing License Borrowing with BORROW Returning a Borrowed License Early a Task To return a borrowed license before the borrow period expires 1 Reconnect the borrowing system back to the network 2 From the same machine that initiated the borrowing issue the command Imborrow return c license file list feature This option may or may not be allowed by you
83. censes Provides an overview of license file administration including from Multiple Vendors several scenarios of different successful license management strategies Chapter 3 Selecting License This chapter helps you determine which machines to use as Server Machines license server machines Chapter 4 The Options File Explains what options files are how they allow the license administrator to control various operating parameters of FLEXnet Licensing FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 9 Introduction to FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Documentation Conventions Table 1 Help Navigation Table Chapter 5 License Provides descriptions of the different license administration Administration Tools utilities as well as procedural information regarding their use Chapter 6 Mobile Licensing Provides descriptions of and explanations of correct usage for different types of mobile licensing Chapter 7 Hostids for FLEXnet Provides information about the various platforms supported Licensing Supported Platforms by FLEXnet Licensing Chapter 8 License File Format Provides information about license file format and syntax within FLEXnet Licensing Chapter 9 The License Server Discusses license server administration Includes correct Manager command line syntax and procedural information about how to start the license server manager on different platforms Appendix A Troub
84. cifier or by the application which ever is less restrictive Only the last FQ DN MATCHING keyword in the options file has effect all others are ignored FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 5 The Options File Options File Syntax Table 5 8 shows the outcome of matching attempts between HOST type specifiers in the options file and host names sent by the application Table 5 8 Host Name Matching Matrix Application Application not configured for configured for FODN FODN sends myhost abc c sends myhost abc c om om FOQDN MATCHING HOST no yes exact myhost HOST yes no myhost abc com FODN MATCHING HOST yes yes lenient myhost e Options File HOST yes yes myhost abc com Examples Consider the following example that demonstrates restrictive host name matching INCLUDE f1 HOST myhost abc com FQDN_MATCHING exact This includes myhost abc com on the list of hosts able to use feature f1 Furthermore the host name sent by the application must be a fully qualified domain name that matches myhost abc com exactly In contrast consider this example which is less restrictive INCLUDE f2 HOST myhost abc com FQDN_MATCHING lenient This includes myhost abc com on the list of hosts able to use feature f2 Host names sent such as myhost abc com or simply myhost match but myhost xyz com yourhost or yourhost abc com do not match The example below is even more l
85. ckinstall Package For The Web QuickPatch ReadySell RipGuard SafeCast Trymedia Systems and Zero G Software are registered trademarks or trademarks of Macrovision Corporation in the United States of America and or other countries All other brand and product names mentioned herein are the trademarks and registered trademarks of their respective owners Restricted Rights Legend The software and documentation are commercial items as that term is defined at 48 C F R 2 101 consisting of commercial computer software and commercial computer software documentation as such terms are used in 48 C F R 12 212 or 48 C F R 227 2702 as applicable Consistent with 48 C F R 812 212 or 48 C F R 8227 2702 1 through 227 7202 4 as applicable the commercial computer software and commercial computer software documentation are being licensed to U S government end users A only as commercial items and B with only those rights as are granted to all other end users pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in the Macrovision Corporation standard commercial agreement for this software Unpublished rights reserved under the copyright laws of the United States of America Disclaimer Information in this document is subject to change without notice Companies names and data used in examples herein are fictitious unless otherwise noted The provision of such information does not represent any commitment on the part of Macrovision Corpora
86. cont Attribute Description user info Additional information provided by the license administrator vendor info Additional information provided by the software vendor Examples FEATURE sample app sampled 2 300 31 dec 2005 20 SIGN 123456789012 INCREMENT f1 sampled 1 000 permanent 5 HOSTID INTERNET 195 186 NOTICE Licensed to Sample corp SIGN 901234567890 Order of Precedence FEATURE INCREMENT license file lines are automatically sorted when they are processed by FLEXnet Licensing the default sorting rules are is as follows License file Automatic sorting does not occur across files in a license file list Feature name FEATURE before INCREMENT 1 2 3 4 Uncounted before counted 5 Version higher versions before lower versions 6 Issued date in reverse order newest first The date is taken from ISSUED or START 7 Original order is otherwise maintained To turn off automatic ordering add sort nnn to the FEATURE INCREMENT line where nnn is the same on all lines nnn specifies the relative sort order The default sort order value is 100 Lines with a sort order value of less than 100 are sorted before all lines without this attribute and lines with a sort order value greater than 100 appear after all unmarked lines All lines with the same number are sorted as they appear in the file m Version 7 1 and earlier FEATURE INCREMENT line format uses license key FEATURE INCREMENT fe
87. count the concurrent usage of the features The following license file allows unlimited usage of feature f1 on the machines with hostids of 17007ea8 and 1700ab12 FEATURE f1 sampled 1 000 1 jan 2005 uncounted SIGN signaturel HOSTID 17007ea8 FEATURE f1 sampled 1 000 1 jan 2005 uncounted SIGN signature2 HOSTID 1700ab12 Alternately these two FEATURE lines could have been issued by your software vendor with a hostid list FEATURE f1 sampled 1 000 1 jan 2005 uncounted SIGN signature HOSTID 17007ea8 1700ab12 If these were the only FEATURE lines in this license file no Imgrd daemon is necessary and you do not need to start one The following license file provides three licenses for feature f1 locked to the machine with hostid 1300ab43 Since the license server system and licenses are locked to the same machine the daemons run on the same machine that runs the FLEXenabled application SERVER lulu 1300ab43 1700 VENDOR sampled etc sampled FEATURE f1 sampled 1 00 1 jan 2005 3 SIGN signature HOSTID 1300ab43 Mixed Node Locked and Floating Licenses Uncounted node locked and concurrent usage licenses can be mixed in the same license file The following license file allows unlimited use of feature f1 on machines 17007ea8 and 1700ab12 while allowing two other licenses for feature f1 to be used anywhere else on the network SERVER lulu 17001234 1700 VENDOR sampled C flexIm sampled exe FEATURE f1 sampled 1 00 1 jan 2005 u
88. dd these lines to your options file HOST_GROUP writers fred barney EXCLUDE f1 HOST_GROUP writers See Also HOST_GROUP for more information about defining groups EXCLUDE Example First Define the group painters GROUP painters picasso mondrian klee EXCLUDE spell GROUP painters EXCLUDE spell USER bob EXCLUDE spell INTERNET 123 123 123 This options file m Prevents the users picasso mondrian and klee from using the feature spell on any machine on the network m Prevents the user bob from using the feature spell on any machine on the network m Prevents any user logged into a host with an IP address in the range 123 123 123 0 through 123 123 123 255 from using the feature spell m Allows any other user as long as they are not on the excluded IP addresses and they are not a member of the painters GROUP and they are not bob to use feature spell by implication Note that bob could have been added to the group painters However painters might be used for some other purpose in the future so the license administrator chose to handle bob as a special case here In this case the two EXCLUDE statements concatenate to create a list of four users EXCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT Example First Define the group admin GROUP admin johns adrianp maryt EXCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT qf573k GROUP admin 86 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 5 The Options File Options File Examples EXCLUDE_
89. de Document revision 01 Chapter 3 Selecting License Server Machines Counted vs Uncounted Licenses Comparing Three Server to License File List Are there any drawbacks to using the license file list for redundancy Yes By default once a FLEXenabled application has successfully checked out a license from a given license server system all subsequent license requests from the same application must be satisfied from the same server system In the event that the application makes subsequent license requests and no more licenses are available from that server system the license request is denied even though licenses may exist on another server An application can bypass this restriction if it is coded with the use of multiple FLEXnet license jobs Only your publisher knows if their application is programmed in this manner If the application supports license queueing all licenses are queued only from the first license server system on the list rather than the request moving to another server on the list Finally if one server becomes unavailable some licenses are unavailable When is it recommended to use a license file list for redundancy rather than three server redundant servers m When there is less system administration available to monitor license server systems m When load balancing is needed for FLEXenabled applications located far apart for example London and Tokyo make servers available locally with remote servers ava
90. duct An INCREMENT line can be used in place of a FEATURE line as well as to incrementally add licenses to a prior FEATURE or INCREMENT line in the license file Only the first FEATURE line for a given feature is processed by the vendor daemon If you want to have additional copies of the same feature for example to have multiple node locked counted features then you must use multiple INCREMENT lines INCREMENT lines form license groups or pools based on the following fields m feature name version DUP GROUP FLOAT OK HOST BASED HOSTID PLATFORM USER BASED VENDOR STRING if configured by the vendor as a pooling component FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 109 Chapter 8 License File Format License File Syntax 110 If two lines differ by any of these fields a new group of licenses called a license pool is created in the vendor daemon and this group is counted independently from other license pools with the same feature name A FEATURE line does not give an additional number of licenses whereas an INCREMENT line always gives an additional number of licenses The basic FEATURE INCREMENT line format is FEATURE INCREMENT feature vendor feat version exp date num lic SIGN sign optional_attributes The six fields after the FEATURE INCREMENT line keyword are required and have a fixed order They are defined by the vendor and cannot be changed Table 8 3 presents these f
91. e answers you need Comprehensive user documentation for your Macrovision product can be found in the product help library Also online resources such as our Knowledge Base provide quick access to years of experience at no cost while maintenance plans give you more robust support with our expert engineers Take a look at your options below and see which solution is right for you Knowledge Base The Knowledge Base is located in the Support section of the Macrovision Web site at http www macrovision com support index shtml It contains answers to many commonly asked questions and includes new information about FLEXnet Licensing that may not appear in the documentation You can use the Knowledge Base search engine to search articles by phrases numbers platforms and version Support Site In addition to enabling you to search the Knowledge Base the Macrovision Support site at http www macrovision com support index shtml enables you to m Obtain FLEXnet Licensing updates Submit FLEXnet Licensing feedback m View webinars m Perform FLEXnet Licensing registration Obtain FLEXnet Licensing white papers case studies marketing materials and training materials m Obtain object libraries and sample projects FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Welcome to Macrovision Contacting Macrovision Corporation Online Communities The online communities are another excellent resource when y
92. e default behavior is to run in the background If 1 debug_log_path is present then no windows are used but if no 1 argument specified separate windows are used for Imgrd and each vendor daemon V Displays 1mgrd version number and copyright and exits help Displays usage information and exits 120 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 9 The License Server Manager Starting the License Server Manager on UNIX Platforms Starting the License Server Manager on UNIX Platforms If any licenses in the license file are counted license count gt 0 the license server manager and hence the license server system must be started before the FLEXenabled application can be used The license server manager Imgrd is started either manually on the command line or automatically at system startup Both methods are discussed in the following sections Note Start Imgrd only on the server machine specified on the SERVER line in the license file If you are running three server redundant license server systems maintain an identical copy of the license file as well as the Imgrd and the vendor daemons binaries locally on each server machine rather than on a file server If you do not do this you lose all the advantages of having redundant servers since the file server holding these files becomes a single point of failure Manual Start Start Imgrd from the UNIX command line using the following
93. ed first and the registry appended to the path If it s a different variable then if the environment set only that is used otherwise the registry is used That is the registry is only used if the environment is not set Environment Variables The table below provides various FLEXnet Licensing environment variables and their 134 definitions Table B 1 FLEXnet Licensing Environment Variables Variable FLEXLM_BATCH FLEXLM_DIAGNOS TICS FLEXLM_TIMEOUT LM_BORROW LM_PROJECT LM_SERVER_HIGH EST_FD Definition Windows only prevents interactive pop ups from appearing Set to 1 if a batch application Version 7 0 and later clients Used for debugging where applications do not print FLEXnet Licensing error message text Set to 1 2 or 3 depending on the amount of diagnostic information desired See FLEXLM_DIAGNOSTICS Version 5 0 and later clients Windows only Sets the timeout value a FLEXenabled application uses when attempting to connect to a license server system port in the range 27000 27009 Values are in microseconds within the range 0 2 147 483 647 The default setting is 100 000 microseconds Used for initiating license borrowing and setting the borrow period See Initiating License Borrowing for more details On UNIX platforms HOME flex 1mborrow is used for the registry instead of SHOME flexImrc LM PROJECT s value is logged in the report log file and later reported on by FLEXnet Man
94. emon to use this parameter HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL For a three server redundant configuration indicates how long a server waits to receive a heartbeat from another server in the seconds configuration before shutting itself down seconds is used in the following equation to calculate the timeout e timeout 3 x seconds seconds 1 If not specified the default value for seconds is 20 equating to a timeout of 79 seconds Valid values for seconds are 0 120 This parameter is optional and is placed on the first SERVER line in the license file You must be running a version 10 8 or later vendor daemon to use this parameter FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 105 Chapter 8 License File Format License File Syntax Example SERVER my_server 17007ea8 21987 Three Server Redundant Configurations 106 The machines that compose a three server redundant configuration are required to have excellent communications This form of redundancy requires that the servers exchange heartbeats periodically and poor communications can cause poor performance Avoid configuring redundant servers with slow communications or dial up links Maintain an identical copy of the license file as well as the Imgrd and the vendor daemons binaries locally on each server machine rather than on a file server If you do not do this you lose all the advantages of having redundant servers since the file server holding
95. emove starts but does not override the license s linger time You can protect the unauthorized execution of 1mremove when you start up the license server manager Imgrd because removing a user s license is disruptive See Also Imgrd Command Line Syntax for details about securing access to Imremove Imreread 56 The Imreread utility causes the license server manager to reread the license file and start any new vendor daemons that have been added In addition all currently running vendor daemons are signaled to reread the license file and their end user options files for changes in feature licensing information or option settings If report logging is enabled any report log data still in the vendor daemon s internal data buffer is flushed 1mreread recognizes changes to server machine host names but cannot be used to change server TCP IP port numbers If the optional vendor daemon name is specified only the named daemon rereads the license file and its end user options file in this case 1mgrd does not reread the license file Usage Imreread c license file list vendor vendor al1 where Table 4 11 Imreread Argument Usage Argument Description C license file list Use the specified license files vendor vendor Only vendor daemon vendor rereads the license file and its options file Additionally Imgrd restarts vendor if necessary all If more than one Imgrd is specified instructs all Lmgrds to reread
96. enient INCLUDE f2 HOST myhost FQDN MATCHING lenient This includes the host name myhost on the list of hosts for feature f3 Since lenient matching is specified host names such as myhost myhost abc com and myhost xyz com match whereas yourhost or yourhost abc com do not match FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 73 Chapter 5 The Options File Options File Syntax See Also Specifying License Restrictions Using Type FQDN_MATCHING introduced in version 9 3 client library and vendor daemon GROUP GROUP group_name user_list Defines a group of users for use in INCLUDE INCLUDEALL INCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT EXCLUDE EXCLUDEALL EXCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT and RESERVE option lines Table 5 9 GROUP Terms Term Description group_name Name of the group being defined Group names are case sensitive user_list List of user names in that group Names are case sensitive Set the GROUPCASEINSENSITIVE options file keyword to turn on case insensitivity See GROUPCASEINSENSITIVE Multiple GROUP lines for the same group name add all the specified users into the group To define the group Hackers consisting of bob howard and james GROUP Hackers bob howard james Note USER_GROUP is an alias for GROUP GROUPCASEINSENSITIVE GROUPCASEINSENSITIVE OFF ON If set to ON user names and host names specified with the options file GROUP and HOST_GROUP keywords respectively are tre
97. ense Server System localhost app3 Checkout succeeded f1 BC64A7B120AE License file servtest lic License Server System speedy Note that the feature name and license key are printed along with the license file location or host name if host were used and host name of the server where applicable 132 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 FLEXnet Licensing Environment Variables Environment variables are not required in order to use FLEXenabled applications Environment variables are normally used for debugging or for changing license default location How to Set Environment Variables FLEXnet Licensing environment variables are set in two different ways m Inthe process s environment m Inthe registry Windows version 6 0 or earlier or in HOME flexImrc UNIX version 7 0 or earlier which functions like the registry for FLEXnet Licensing on UNIX Registry On Windows the FLEXnet Licensing registry location is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Software FLEXIm License Manager On UNIX the equivalent information is stored in HOME flex1mrc In this file the syntax is variable value FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 133 Chapter B FLEXnet Licensing Environment Variables Environment Variables Precedence If the variable is LM_LICENSE_FILE or VENDOR_LICENSE_FILE then both the environment and the registry are used with the environment us
98. enses associated with them float on the network Each of the FLOAT_OK uncounted node locked FEATURE lines has a count of one while it is available on the network An end user then completes the following steps Task To transfer a license from the pool of floating licenses to a disconnected computer 1 Copies the license file containing the FLOAT OK node locked FEATURE line from the license file on the license server machine to a license file on the client computer in the location where the FLEXenabled application expects to find its license file Moves the FLEXid matching the node locked FEATURE line from the license server machine to the client computer When the FLEXid is removed from the license server machine this license is unavailable on the network Installs the FLEXid drivers on the client computer if they are not already installed Disconnects the client computer from the network Now the license is available on the computer with the FLEXid even though that computer is disconnected from the network FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 91 Chapter 6 Mobile Licensing Node Locked to a FLEXid with FLOAT_OK Windows Only Returning a FLEXid with FLOAT OK License Md Task To return the license to the license server machine so it floats on the network again the end user 1 Removes the FLEXid from the client machine and replaces it on the license server machine 2 Rereads the l
99. er F FLEXnet Licensing Versions Version Summary 162 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Index A ANY hostid 101 asset_info 112 AUTH 110 116 B BORROW_LOWWATER 68 borrowing 93 C COMPOSITE hostid 101 concurrent license 24 contact information Macrovision 16 converting license formats 51 creating options file 64 D DAEMON line 108 debugging license server system 129 DEBUGLOG 69 decimal format licenses 51 DEMO hostid 101 diagnosing checkout problems troubleshooting checkouts 48 disabling Imdown 120 Imremove 120 DISPLAY hostid 101 type 67 dist info 112 DUP GROUP 111 E enabling report log 81 environment variables FLEXLM BATCH 134 FLEXLM DIAGNOSTICS 134 FLEXLM TIMEOUT 134 LM BORROW 134 LM LICENSE FILE 135 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 163 Index LM_PROJECT 134 LM_SERVER_HIGHEST_FD 134 setting 133 VENDOR_LICENSE_FILE 135 error code descriptions 138 format 137 EXCLUDE 69 EXCLUDE_BORROW 70 EXCLUDEALL 71 expiration date 110 F feature version 110 FEATURE line 109 asset_info 112 AUTH 110 dist_info 112 DUP_GROUP 111 expiration date 110 feature version 110 FLOAT_OK 111 HOST_BASED 111 HOSTID 111 ISSUED 111 ISSUER 111 license count 110 NOTICE 111 order of precedence 113 OVERDRAFT 112 PLATFORMS 112 serial number 112 SIGN 110 signature 110 SN 112 sort 112 sorting order 113 START 112 SUPER
100. es 90 Node Locked to a FLEXid with FLOAT OK Windows Only 90 Initiating FLEXid with FLOAT OK 0 22 91 Returning a FLEXid with FLOAT OK License 0 0 0 a 92 FLEXid with FLOAT OK Example 0 0000 cc cece eee eee een een eens 92 License Borrowing with BORROW 222 0c eee eee eee ees 93 Initiating License Borrowing 0 0 ee eee eee eens 93 Application Interface 2 0 0 tte nett tenet eens 93 Running the Imborrow Utility 0 0 ene teenies 93 Setting the LM BORROW Environment Variable Directly 94 Borrowing a License 0 95 Clearing the Borrow Period 0 95 Checking Borrow Status ccc eet e tenn teen tennnees 95 Returning a Borrowed License Early 0 ccc cece eee eens 96 Support for License Borrowing 6 ee eet eee eae 96 Node locked to a User Name 2002 cece eee ees 97 Fulfilled from a Prepaid License Pool cee eee e eee eens 97 6 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Contents 7 Hostids for FLEXnet Licensing Supported Platforms 99 Hostid Formats sisi i wots emd oe tele ew Oe SE cee a dl AG E a 99 FLEXnet Licensing Hostids 0 00 cee eee eee ee 99 Special FLEXnet Licensing Hostids 0 00 eee eee eee 101 8 License File Format 0 0 0 0 c cece cece ence nee 103 License File Syntax 02 0c eee eee eee 104 SERVER LINES 3 5
101. escription Version 2 Blank quotes or a quoted string at the end of the FEATURE line gt Version 3 INCREMENT or UPGRADE line gt Version 4 OVERDRAFT DUP_GROUP INTERNET or PACKAGE appear gt Version 5 SUPERSEDE ISSUED USER_BASED HOST_BASED or SN appear gt Version 6 START appears gt Version 7 1 SIGN keyword appears gt Version 8 BORROW FLOAT_OK and TS_OK appear Version Summary 156 Version 1 0 1988 First FLEX m Release containing all the basic FLEX m features Version 1 5 February 1990 First widely used version including DEMO Version 2 1 March 1991 Improved TIMEOUT support Improved ethernet hostid support Version 2 21 November 1991 m Added support for many platforms and some platform specific improvements such as hostid Hostid ANY added FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter F FLEXnet Licensing Versions Version Summary Version 2 26 March 1992 Used only by Sun m Added license lingering Version 2 4 December 1992 m Added use all feature lines capability for incremental license distribution m Enhanced vendor customization routines m Enhanced end user options file m Added new hostid types USER HOSTNAME and DISPLAY m Added port host to locate license file downloads license file from server Version 2 61 March 1993 Used only by Sun m Added INCREMENT and UPGRADE lines to license
102. exadecimal digits Specify all twelve hex digits when using an ethernet address as a hostid For example if the ethernet address is 8 0 20 0 5 ac specify 0800200005ac as the hostid Hostid Formats Numeric 32 bit hostids are normally used in hexadecimal format On some systems the system command returns the ID in decimal format Use a before the hostid to indicate a decimal number For example if the system command returns 2005771344 FLEXnet Licensing accepts 2005771344 Alternatively convert the decimal value to hexadecimal FLEXnet Licensing Hostids The Imhostid utility prints the exact hostid that FLEXnet Licensing expects to use on any given machine If your hostid contains characters other than ASCII Z a z or o 9 use the utf8 option with Imhostid To view a correct representation of the resulting hostid use a utility such as Notepad that can display UTF 8 encoded strings FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 99 Chapter 7 Hostids for FLEXnet Licensing Supported Platforms FLEXnet Licensing Hostids Hardware Platform The following table lists alternate methods to obtain the required hostid for each machine architecture FLEXnet Licensing also supports a group of special hostids and vendor defined hostids Table 7 1 Alternate Hostid Procurement Methods Hostid Type this command on the license server system Example
103. fied period of time beyond its checkin or FLEXenabled application exit whichever comes first This option extends the default linger time configured by the vendor in the FLEXenabled application Note The vendor must have enabled this feature in the FLEXenabled application for it to work Contact your software vendor to find out if this feature is implemented Table 5 15 LINGER Terms Definition feature Name of the feature keyword value Feature name modifier to denote a group of licenses See Specifying Features for details seconds Number of seconds the license lingers The vendor sets a minimum value If you specify a value for seconds that is smaller than the vendor s minimum the minimum is used FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 5 The Options File Options File Syntax To set the linger value for feature 1 to one hour 3600 seconds LINGER f1 3600 The actual linger time varies somewhat since the vendor daemon checks all lingering licenses just once per minute If however a new license request is made that would otherwise be denied a check of the lingering licenses is made immediately to attempt to satisfy the new request MAX This option applies to concurrent licenses held in license files and trusted storage MAX num lic feature keyword value type name group_name Limits usage for a group or user Table 5 16 MAX Terms Term Description
104. for host BAD CODE for feature The specified feature name has a bad license key or signature It was probably typed in wrong or modified by the end user CANNOT OPEN options file The options file specified in the license file could not be opened Couldn t find a master The daemons could not agree on a master License daemon lost all connections This message is logged when all the connections to a server are lost which often indicates a network problem Lost lock exiting Error closing lock file Unable to re open lock file The vendor daemon has a problem with its lock file usually because of an attempt to run more than one copy of the daemon on a single node Locate the other daemon that is running via a ps command and kill it with ki11 9 No DAEMON line for vendor The license file does not contain a DAEMON or VENDOR line for vendor No DAEMON lines exiting The license daemon logs this message if there are no DAEMON or VENDOR lines in the license file Because there are no vendor daemons to start there is nothing for the license daemon to do No features to serve A vendor daemon found no features to serve This could be caused by a corrupted or incorrectly entered license file FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 153 Chapter E The Debug Log File Debug Log Messages Table E 3 FLEXnet Licensing Configuration Problem Messages
105. from most to least independence among vendors In the first option mentioned above you have the most license server machines to monitor in the third option you have only one server and one license file to administer Each of these three strategies is described in detail in the following sections Variations are mentioned in Additional Considerations FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 27 Chapter 2 Managing Licenses from Multiple Vendors Multiple Machines Multiple Machines In this scenario each distinct vendor daemon and its associated license file or files is located on a separate server machine Each machine serves licenses just for its vendor daemon and runs its own local copy of Imgrd Figure 2 1 shows this arrangement Vendor XYZ Daemon Vendor ABC s Vendor DEF s Vendor XYZ s License Files License Files License Files Server Machine 1 Server Machine 2 Server Machine n License Server System License Server System License Server System Figure 2 1 Multiple Server System Machines Advantages m The license files for each vendor are independent from one another m Machines are maintained separately If one machine goes down the other machines continue to serve licenses for their vendors m Each server has its own debug log Licensing load is distributed Disadvantages m Administrative overhead is the highest m If one machine goes do
106. g 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 8 License File Format License File Syntax In places where value is a string surrounded with double quotes the string can contain any characters except a quote Table 8 4 Vendor Supplied Attributes Attribute Description BORROW n Enables license borrowing for a particular FEATUREANCREMENT line nis the number of hours that the license is borrowed The default borrow period is 168 hours or one week DUP GROUP The syntax is DUP_GROUP NONE SITE UHDVI U DUP_USER H DUP_HOST D DUP_DISPLAY V DUP_VENDOR_DEF Any combination of UHDV is allowed and the DUP_MASK is the OR of the combination For example DUP_GROUP UHD means the duplicate grouping is DUP_USER DUP_HOST DUP_DISPLAY so for a user on the same host and display additional uses of a feature do not consume additional licenses FLOAT_OK Enables mobile licensing via FLEXid with FLOAT_OK for a particular server_hostid FEATURE INCREMENT line This FEATUREANCREMENT line must also be node locked to a FLEXid When FLOAT OK server hostidis specified on a FEATURE line The server hostid must refer to the same host that appears on the SERVER line of the license file The license server system runs only on the machine with the hostid that Lmhostid returns equal to the server hostid specified with FLOAT OK HOSTID ld of the host to which the feature line is bound
107. g file 151 Imnewlog 53 Imreread 56 Imswitchr 60 168 memory usage 38 options file 64 uncounted licenses 42 VENDOR_LICENSE_FILE 135 version compatibility 119 vendor daemon name FEATURE line 110 VENDOR line 108 vendor daemon path 108 VENDOR line 107 options file path 108 port number 108 vendor daemon name 108 vendor daemon path 108 vendor opt 64 108 vendor_info 113 VENDOR_LICENSE_FILE 23 135 VENDOR_STRING 112 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01
108. g the common AUTH vendor daemon technology license certificate signatures are embedded within the AUTH keyword Contact your publisher for further details Examples PACKAGE suite sampled 1 0 SIGN 3B24B2F508CB COMPONENTS comp1 comp2 OPTIONS SUITE FEATURE suite sampled 1 0 1 jan 0 5 SIGN 4193E6ABCCCB This is a typical OPTIONS SUITE example There are two features comp1 and comp2 which are each version 1 0 each with five non expiring licenses available When comp1 or comp2 is checked out suite is also checked out PACKAGE suite sampled 1 0 SIGN 2CBF44FCB9C1 COMPONENTS apple 1 5 2 orange 3 0 4 FEATURE suite sampled 1 0 1 jan 2005 3 SIGN 321E78A17EC1 SN 123 In this example the component version overrides the feature version and the number of licenses available for any component is the product of the three licenses for suite and the number of licenses for that component The result is equivalent to FEATURE apple sampled 1 5 1 jan 2005 6 SIGN 0D3AD5F26BEC SN 123 FEATURE orange sampled 3 0 1 jan 2005 12 SIGN EB16C5AE61Fo SN 123 m Ability to store PACKAGE lines in separate files introduced in version 6 client library m pkg version field required in version 7 1 and earlier client library m AUTH keyword introduced in version 10 8 client library and vendor daemon UPGRADE Lines 116 UPGRADE feature vendor from feat version to feat version exp date num lic options SIGN sign
109. he LM BORROW setting in the registry or SHOME flexImborrow Issue the command Imborrow clear Clearing the LM BORROW setting stops licenses from being borrowed until borrowing is initiated again A user might run Imborrow clear after she has borrowed licenses for features that are used offline if before disconnecting from the network she wants to run an application that checks out additional features served by vendor that are not meant to be borrowed Clearing LM_BORROW does not change the status for already borrowed licenses 46 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 4 License Administration Tools Imborrow Determining Borrowed License Status ag Task To print information about borrowed features m Issue the following command on the machine from which they are borrowed Imborrow status The borrowing system does not have to be connected to the network to determine the status Returning a Borrowed License Early ag Task To return a borrowed license early 1 Reconnect the borrowing system back to the network 2 From the same machine that initiated the borrowing issue the command Imborrow return fqdn c license file list c display feature where Table 4 4 Argument Description fqdn Directs Imborrow to access the borrowing system using its fully qualified host name Use this option if the license was borrowed based on the ful
110. he ability to control licenses without having to explicitly list each user that you wish to allow or deny access to In other words there are two approaches you either m Give most users access and list only the exceptions or m Severely limit access and list only the those users that have access privileges 84 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 5 The Options File Options File Examples Options File Examples The following information gives some examples of options files intended to illustrate ways to effectively control access to your licenses Simple Options File Example RESERVE 1 compile USER robert RESERVE 3 compile HOST mainline EXCLUDE compile USER lori NOLOG QUEUED This options file restricts the use of concurrent licenses as follows m Reserves one license for the feature compile for the user robert m Reserves three licenses for the feature compile for anyone on the system with the host name mainline m Prevents the user lori from using the compile feature on any machine on the network m Causes QUEUED messages to be omitted from the debug log file The sum total of the licenses reserved must be less than or equal to the number of licenses specified in the FEATURE line In the example above there must be a minimum of four licenses on the compile FEATURE line If fewer licenses are available only the first set of reservations up to the license limit is used
111. he system on which LMTOOLS is running For details on configuring services see Configuring the License Server Manager as a Windows Service 62 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 The Options File The options file allows the license administrator to control various operating parameters of FLEXnet Licensing Users are identified by their user name host name display IP address or PROJECT which is set with the LM PROJECT environment variable For concurrent floating licenses the license administrator can m Allow the use of features Deny the use of features m Reserve licenses The concurrent licenses can be held either in license files or in fulfillment records within trusted storage For activatable licenses the license administrator can m Allow activation of licenses in a specific fulfillment record m Deny activation of licenses in a specific fulfillment record For all licenses the license administrator can Restrict the number of licenses available Control the amount of information logged about license usage m Enable a report log file Options files allow you as the license administrator to be as secure or open with licenses as you like Lines in the options file are limited to 2048 characters The character is a continuation character in options file lines FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 63 Chapter 5 The Optio
112. hey have lost the majority they refuse to serve licenses If FLEXnet Licensing allowed a set of counted licenses to be bound to only two redundant license server systems then by the rules above only a group that contains greater than one half of the total number of redundant license servers would allow itself to serve licenses For a group of only two this would mean both license servers would have to remain in constant communication and neither could fail That is the only number greater than one half of two is two which is not a fail over solution Because of the requirement for a majority the obvious number of redundant license server systems to use is an odd number Using an even number of license servers would require an extra license server to be part of the majority without adding value For simplicity FLEXnet Licensing only supports three redundant license servers because three is the smallest odd number greater than one See Also FEATURE INCREMENT Lines for more information about uncounted features Selecting License Server Machines for more information about redundant servers IP address specification for host introduced in version 5 0 Imgrd vendor daemon and client library port specification is required with a version 6 0 and earlier Imgrd vendor daemon and client library PRIMARY_IS_MASTER and HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL introduced in version 10 8 Imgrd and vendor daemon VENDOR Lines The VENDOR line specifies the daemon n
113. hp700 u9 license dat gt gt home flex1m v5 12 hp700_u9 boot 1log bin su daniel c echo sleep 5 gt gt home flex1m v5 12 hp700_u9 boot 1log bin sleep 5 bin su daniel c echo Imdiag gt gt home flex1m v5 12 hp700_u9 boot 1log bin su daniel c home flexim v5 12 hp700_u9 Imdiag n c home flex1m v5 12 hp700 u9 license dat gt gt home flex1m v5 12 hp700_u9 boot 1log bin su daniel c echo exiting gt gt home flex1m v5 12 hp700_u9 boot 1log Please note the following about how this script was written m All paths are specified in full because no paths are assumed at boot time m Because no paths are assumed the vendor daemon must be in the same directory as Imgrd or the VENDOR lines in the license file must be edited to include the full path to the vendor daemon m The su command is used to run Imgrd as a non root user daniel It is recommended that Imgrd not be run as root since it is a security risk to run any program as root that does not require root permissions Imgrd does not require root permissions m daniel has a csh login so all commands executed as daniel must be in csh syntax All commands not executed as daniel must be in bin sh syntax since that is what is used by the boot scripts m The use of nohup and sleep are required on some operating systems notably HP UX and Digital UNIX These are not needed on Solaris and some other operating systems but are safe to use on all
114. icense file FLEXLM_DIAGNOSTICS Level 130 Note The ability for FLEXnet Licensing to produce diagnostic output is controlled by your software vendor FLEXLM_DIAGNOSTICS is an environment variable that causes the application to produce diagnostic information when a checkout is denied The format of the diagnostic information may change over time On UNIX the diagnostic output goes to stderr On Windows the output is a file in the current directory called flexpid 1og where pid is the application s process ID 1 Content If FLEXLM_DIAGNOSTICS is set to 1 then the standard FLEXnet Licensing error message is be presented plus a complete list of license files that the application tried to use For example setenv FLEXLM_DIAGNOSTICS 1 FLEX1m checkout error Cannot find license file 1 73 2 No such file or FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Level Level Appendix A Troubleshooting Guide FLEXLM_DIAGNOSTICS directory license file s usr myproduct licenses testing lic license lic 2 Content If FLEXLM_DIAGNOSTICS is set to 2 then in addition to level 1 output the checkout arguments are presented For example setenv FLEXLM_DIAGNOSTICS 2 FLEX1m checkout error No such feature exists 5 116 2 No such file or directory license file s usr myproduct licenses testing lic license lic 1m checkout f1 1 0 1 0x0 0x4000 Note that the error message actua
115. icense file for the license server system that serves the floating version of the license by running Imreread When the FLEXid is returned to the license server machine the FLOAT OK license does not float on the network again until Imreread is run FLEXid with FLOAT OK Example The following is a sample license file issued to a end user site It is shipped with two FLEXids FLEXID 7 b28520b9 and FLEXID 7 b2857678 SERVER myhost ANY VENDOR sampled FEATURE f1 sampled 1 0 permanent uncounted FLOAT OK HOSTID FLEXID 7 b28520b9 SIGN 123456789012 FEATURE f1 sampled 1 0 permanent uncounted FLOAT OK HOSTID FLEXID 7 b2857678 SIGN ABCDEF123456 The end user installs the license file and the two FLEXids on the license server machine When attached to the license server machine each uncounted FLOAT_OK license floats on the network and allows a single use Therefore up to two users can use ft on the end user s network except on the license server machine itself where the license use is disallowed If an end user wants to work at home the end user installs a license file that contains the FEATURE line node locked to FLEXID 7 b28520b9 this only needs to be done once transfers the FLEXid FLEXID 7 b28520b9 from the license server machine to the client computer and installs the FLEXid driver on the client computer this also only needs to be done once The end user disconnects the client computer from the network and uses the transferred FLOAT_
116. icense file that has a large number of features which largely share the same FEATURE line arguments A PACKAGE line by itself does not license anything it requires a matching FEATURE INCREMENT line to license the whole package A PACKAGE line is shipped by your software vendor with a product independent of any licenses Later when you purchase a license for that package one or more corresponding FEATURE INCREMENT lines enable the PACKAGE line 114 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 8 License File Format License File Syntax Example PACKAGE package vendor pkg version COMPONENTS pkg_Tist OPTIONS SUITE SUPERSEDE p1 p2 ISSUED date SIGN pkg_sign Table 8 6 lists the PACKAGE line fields They must appear in the order listed Table 8 6 PACKAGE Line Fields Field Description package Name of the package The corresponding FEATURE INCREMENT line must have the same name vendor Name of the vendor daemon that supports this package pkg_version Optional field specifying the package version If specified the enabling FEATURE AINCREMENT line must have the same version COMPONENTS pkg li List of package components The format is st feature version num lic Packages must consist of at least one component Version and count are optional and if left out their values come from the corresponding FEATURE INCREMENT line num ic is only legal if OPTIONS SUITE is not
117. icense files If you have two or more products whose licenses are intended for the same machine as specified by their SERVER lines you may be able to combine the license files into a single license file The license files for the models described in One Machine with Multiple License Server Systems and One Machine with One License Server System and Multiple License Files could be combined if they met certain criteria See Criteria for Combining License Files Figure 2 4 shows one possible scenario using a combined license file License Server Vendor Vendor Vendor ABC DEF XYZ Daemon Daemon Daemon Combined License File Single License Server Machine Figure 2 4 One Imgrd One License File Advantages m A single license file to administer FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 33 Chapter 2 Managing Licenses from Multiple Vendors Additional Considerations m Once the files are combined there is low administrative overhead Disadvantage Careful planning must be given in combining license lines from multiple vendors into one file initially and over time Starting the License Server System KA Task To start the license server system m Invoke the license server manager once on the server machine Imgrd c combined license file Criteria for Combining License Files Your product s license files define the license server machines by host name and hostid in the SERVER line
118. ide Document revision 01 45 Chapter 4 License Administration Tools Imborrow Imborrow vendor all enddate time where Table 4 3 Argument Description vendor The vendor daemon name that serves the licenses to be borrowed or all specifies all vendor daemons in that license server system enddate time Date the license is to be returned in dd mmm yyyy format time is optional and is specified in 24 hour format hh mm in the FLEXenabled application s local time If time is unspecified the checkout lasts until the end of the given end date For example Imborrow sampled 20 aug 2001 13 00 This has the effect of setting LM BORROW with the borrow period in either the registry Windows or in HOME flex1mborrow UNIX To borrow licenses for the desired vendor on the same day and the same machine that the user runs Imborrow run the applications to check out the licenses If you run the applications more than once that day no duplicate licenses are borrowed No licenses are borrowed if the application is run on a day different than the date borrowing is initiated In addition to the 1mborrow utility there are other ways to initiate borrowing m Using the borrowing interface in application if provided in the application m Setting the LM BORROW environment variable directly See Initiating License Borrowing for more information on these other ways Clearing the Borrowed License Setting KA Task To clear t
119. ields in the order they must appear Table 8 3 FEATURE INCREMENT Line Required Fields Field Description feature Name given to the feature by the vendor vendor Name of the vendor daemon also found in the VENDOR line The specified daemon serves this feature feat_version Version of this feature that is supported by this license exp_date Expiration date of license in the format dd mmm yyyy for example 07 may 2006 Note If exp_date is the string permanent or the year is O or 00 000 0000 then the license never expires num_lic Number of concurrent licenses for this feature If the num_licis set to the string uncounted or O the licenses for this feature are uncounted and no 1mgrd is required but a hostid on the FEATURE line is required See Counted vs Uncounted Licenses SIGN sign or SIGN signature to authenticate this FEATURE line If your publisher has deployed his vendor daemon using the common vendor daemon technology license certificate signatures are embedded within the AUTH keyword Contact your publisher for further details AUTH Table 8 4 lists attributes that may appear in a FEATURE or INCREMENT line They are supplied at the discretion of the vendor to provide particular licensing behavior If present in the FEATURE or INCREMENT line they must remain there and cannot be altered by the end user These attributes have a keyword value syntax where keyword is in uppercase FLEXnet Licensin
120. ies otherwise the file is overwritten each time the daemon is started Note that this affects output from only the vendor daemon associated with this options file The debug log output of Imgrd and any other vendor daemons in the same license file is not captured in this file On Windows pathnames which include spaces have to be enclosed in double quotes If Imgrd is started as a service the default location for the report log file is the c winnt System32 folder unless a fully qualified path is specified See Also Configuring the License Server Manager as a Windows Service Imswitch The Debug Log File Debug log output restricted to that of just the vendor daemon introduced in version 8 vendor daemon EXCLUDE This option applies to concurrent licenses held in license files and trusted storage EXCLUDE feature keyword value type name group_name Excludes a user or predefined group of users from the list of who is allowed to use the feature EXCLUDE supersedes INCLUDE conflicts between the EXCLUDE list and the INCLUDE list are resolved by the EXCLUDE taking precedence Table 5 3 EXCLUDE Terms Term Description feature Name of the feature or package being affected keyword value Feature name modifier to denote a group of licenses See Specifying Features for details type One of USER HOST DISPLAY INTERNET PROJECT GROUP or HOST_GROUP See Specifying License Restrictions Using Type for details name N
121. ilable as backup License file list is more forgiving if you lose quorum License file list is not limited to three servers any number work m Clients do not require reliable networking to a single machine with license file list so this is recommended where networking itself requires redundancy Counted vs Uncounted Licenses The license file determines whether a license server system is needed If all the FEATURE or INCREMENT lines have a license count of o unlimited or uncounted then no server is needed This type of license is called uncounted Alternatively if any FEATURE lines have a non zero license count then a server is required to count those licenses If a vendor wants to use FLEXnet Licensing without a server they must issue uncounted licenses The license server system is able to serve uncounted licenses as well This is done so that FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 41 Chapter 3 Selecting License Server Machines Counted vs Uncounted Licenses m transactions can be logged into the report log for all license requests which can then be reported on by FLEXnet Manager m options file constraints can be applied to the licenses To have uncounted licenses served include a SERVER line in the license file and put the USE_SERVER line immediately after the SERVER line The vendor daemon serves the uncounted licenses and the USE_SERVER line indicates to applications th
122. in the C MyDocuments Samp1eCode directory File names and directory paths are presented in a monospace typeface Command Line To run the installation silently enter Command line statements and Statements parameters are presented in a Setup exe s v qn monospace typeface Environment Set the value of the windir environment Environment variables are Variables variable to your presented in a monospace typeface Examples Create two groups one called Admins and Examples are presented in bold the other called General Functions FeatureAddltem adds a new feature toa Functions are presented in script created feature set presented in bold Properties In the Name property enter a name for this Properties are presented in custom control that is unique among all of the controls in your project bold Screen Output If you type an incorrect parameter the message The system cannot find the path specified is displayed Screen output from a log file or from the console is displayed in a monospace typeface and in blue 12 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Welcome to Macrovision Company Information Macrovision Corporation is the market leader in electronic licensing installation and digital rights management DRM technologies Over 50 000 software vendors and virtually all of the Fortune 1 000 companies use Macrovision s technologies to maxi
123. is version 4 1 or later version 5 or later on Windows you can use the FLEXLM_DIAGNOSTICS environment variable Set FLEXLM_DIAGNOSTICS to 1 2 or 3 A setting of 3 gives more information than 2 2 gives more information than 1 in particular the feature name that was denied See FLEXLM_DIAGNOSTICS for more information When you talk to a support person be prepared with answers to the following questions o What kind of machine is your license server system running on o What version of the operating system o What machine and operating system is the application running on FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 129 Appendix A Troubleshooting Guide FLEXLM_DIAGNOSTICS o What version of FLEXnet Licensing does the FLEXenabled application use Use the Imver script or on UNIX execute the following command on your 1mgrd vendor daemon and application strings binary_name grep Copy Alternatively lmgrd v gives the 1mgrd version and this works with the vendor daemon also o What error or warning messages appear in the log file o Did the server start correctly Look for a message such as server xyz started for featurel feature2 o What is the output from running Imstat a o Are you running other FLEXenabled products o Are you using a combined license file or separate license files o Are you using a three server redundant license server system multiple SERVER lines in your l
124. ision 01 Chapter 9 The License Server Manager Starting the License Server Manager on Windows Manual Start from LMTOOLS Task A graphical user interface to the license server manager tools is provided called LMTOOLS Some of the functions LMTOOLS performs include m starting stopping and configuring FLEXnet license server systems m getting system information including hostids m getting server status In order to control the operation of Imgrd from the LMTOOLS user interface you first must configure it as a license server manager service Follow the procedure in Configuring the License Server Manager as a Windows Service before proceeding Once the license server manager service is configured Imgrd is started by starting the service from the LMTOOLS interface To start the service from the LMTOOLS interface 1 Start LMTOOLS LMTOOLS by Macrovision Corporation http www_macrovision com File Edit Mode Help Service License File System Settings Utilities Start Stop Reread Server Status Server Diags Config Services Borrowing Services allow FLEXnet Servers to run in the background m Server List C Configuration using License File Configuration using Services Myvendor License Manager Figure 9 2 LMTOOLS appears with the Service License File tab open 2 Click Configuration using Services button 3 Select the service name from the list presented in the selection box In
125. lank lines When an input file is specified with no output file specified output goes to stdout if neither input nor output file is specified Iminstal1 assumes that input comes from stdin and prompts the user for an output file name minstal1 is also used to convert licenses from readable to decimal format and between different versions of FLEXnet license formats To convert from readable to decimal Iminstall i in lic file o out lic file odecimal To convert to v5 1 format Iminstall i in lic file o out lic file overfmt 5 1 To enforce a maximum line length of for example 50 characters Tminstall maxlen 50 Conversion errors are reported as necessary and can be written to a file by specifying e err file Iminstal1 has a limit of 1 000 lines of input Imnewlog 52 The Imnew1og utility switches the report log file by moving the existing report log information to a new file then starting a new report log with the original report log file name If you rotate report logs with 1mnewlog instead of Imswitchr you do not have to change the file name in the REPORTLOG line of the vendor s options file Requires a version 7 1 or later vendor daemon FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 4 License Administration Tools Impath Usage Imnewlog c license file list feature renamed_report_log OT Imnewlog c license file list vendor renamed report log where Table 4
126. le so that they are all different If you are running 10 license server systems or less you can omit all port numbers and 1mgrd will choose unique ones for you within the default range of 27000 27009 You must make sure that you are using a compatible version of 1mgrd for each particular license file This is done by using an explicit path to 1mgrd See Version Component Compatibility m The number of license server systems is limited only by the CPU memory and networking of the machine FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 29 Chapter 2 Managing Licenses from Multiple Vendors One Machine with One License Server System and Multiple License Files Advantages m The license files for each vendor are independent from one another m License server systems are maintained separately If one server goes down the other servers continue to serve licenses for their vendors m Each server has its own debug log Disadvantages m Administrative overhead is high m Ifthe machine goes down all licensing is disabled Licensing load is concentrated to one machine Starting the License Server System Kag Task To start the license server system m Invoke each license server system a For Server 1 Imgrd c vendor ABC license dir list b For Server 2 Imgrd c vendor DEF license dir list c For Server 3 Imgrd c vendor XYZ license dir list where vendor nnn license list is a license file list
127. leshooting Provides basic troubleshooting information for FLEXnet Guide Licensing Appendix B FLEXnet Licensing Provides a complete listing and definitions of all FLEXnet Environment Variables Licensing environment variables Includes procedural information as to how they should be set Appendix C FLEXnet Licensing Provides all error codes found within FLEXnet Licensing Error Codes Appendix D The Report Log File Explains how to use the Report Log file and manage its output Appendix E The Debug Log File Explains how to use the Debug Log file and manage its output Appendix F FLEXnet Licensing Discusses how FLEXnet Licensing supports licenses that Versions allow one of several kinds of mobile licensing including node locked licenses Documentation Conventions In this documentation reader alert and style conventions are used to bring your attention to specific information or help you identify information 10 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Introduction to FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Documentation Conventions Reader Alert Conventions Reader alerts are used throughout this documentation to notify you of both supplementary and essential information The following table explains the meaning of each alert Table 2 Reader Alert Conventions Image Alert Name Description Note Notes are used to draw attention to pieces of information that should stand out
128. lly contains two separate problems which both occurred during the checkout There is no such feature in the license it did find m It was unable to find the other license file which is what produces the message No such file or directory This is a description of the arguments to Im checkout 1m checkout feature version num lic queue flag dupgroup mask where Table A 1 Im checkout Arguments Argument Description feature The requested feature version The requested version The license file must contain a version gt the requested version num lic Number of licenses requested Usually 1 queue flag If O no queueing If 1 queue for license blocking queue If 2 queue for licenses but return to application non blocking queue dupgroup_mask Indicates duplicate grouping also called license sharing User host and display are as shown by Imstat a 3 Content Version 6 0 or Later Only If FLEXLM_DIAGNOSTICS is set to 3 then in addition to level 1 and 2 output if a checkout is successful information is printed explaining how the license was granted FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 131 Appendix A Troubleshooting Guide FLEXLM_DIAGNOSTICS setenv FLEXLM_DIAGNOSTICS 3 app Checkout succeeded f0 14263EAEA8E0 License file servtest lic No server used app2 Checkout succeeded f1 BC64A7B120AE License file localhost Lic
129. ly qualified host name rather than the relative distinguished name Use Imstat to determine the format of the host name used when the license was borrowed C license file list Use the specified license files In some configurations the license file needs to be specified in order to return the license file early d display Used to specify the display from which the borrow was initiated Required if your current display is different than what was used to initiate the borrow On Windows it is the system name or in the case of a terminal server environment the terminal server client name On UNIX it is in the form dev ttyxx or the X Display name feature The name of the borrowed feature to be returned early Use Imborrow status to get a list of borrowed feature names FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 47 Chapter 4 License Administration Tools Imdiag Returning the license early has the effect of clearing the LM BORROW setting for the vendor daemon that serves the returned license If the borrowing system is not placed back on the network before attempting the early return the license is not returned and LM BORROW is kept intact Additionally an error message is issued to the end user with notification that the system needs to be connected to the network m Early borrowed license return was introduced in version 8 3 utilities Imdiag 48 Imdiag allows you
130. ment revision 01 71 Chapter 5 The Options File Options File Syntax EXCLUDEALL type name group_name Excludes a user or predefined group of users from the list of who is allowed to use all features served by this vendor daemon Table 5 6 EXCLUDEALL Terms Term Description type One of USER HOST DISPLAY INTERNET PROJECT GROUP or HOST_GROUP See Specifying License Restrictions Using Type for details name Name of an item of type type for which license usage is excluded group_name Name of the group to exclude To exclude any user on the machine chaos from using all features served by this vendor daemon EXCLUDEALL HOST chaos FODN MATCHING 72 This option applies to all licenses held in license files or trusted storage FQDN MATCHING exact lenient Sets the level to which host names used in HOST type specifiers must match the host name sent by the FLEXenabled application The application is configured to send either its host name or its fully qualified domain name FQDN to the vendor daemon for validation with HOST type specifiers Check with your vendor to determine fully qualified domain name support Table 5 7 FQDN MATCHING Terms Term Description exact The host name in the HOST type specifier must match in content and format to that sent by the application This is the default setting lenient The host name sent by the application needs match to the extent supplied in the HOST type spe
131. ministration Tools Running Administration Tools Table 4 1 License Administration Utilities cont Utility Description Imstat Displays the status of a license server system Imswitch Controls debug log location and size Imswitchr Switches the report log to a new file name Imver Reports the FLEXnet Licensing version of a library or binary file m The Impath utility introduced in the version 7 0 utilities m The Imborrow utility introduced in the version 8 0 utilities m The Imswitch utility introduced in version 8 0 vendor daemon m The Imswitchr utility introduced in version 5 0 vendor daemon Running Administration Tools All FLEXnet Licensing utilities are packaged as a single executable called 1muti1 Imuti1 is either installed as individual commands either by creating links to the individual command names or making copies of 1muti1 as the individual command names or as a wrapper that runs the individual command as Imutil command For example Imutil Imstat or Imutil Imdown On Windows systems the 1mutil command form of the commands are available There is also a graphical user interface available for these commands see License Administration Tools LMTOOLS for Windows 44 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 4 License Administration Tools Universal Imutil Arguments Universal Imutil Arguments The following are valid arguments for most Imuti1 utilities
132. mize the value of their software Software Value Management solutions bridge the gap between pricing and packaging software on the development side and purchasing and managing that software on the enterprise side Macrovision markets the FLEXnet Software Value Management platform which includes the InstallShield suite of software installation repackaging and update solutions these solutions are deployed on more than 500 million desktops worldwide Macrovision holds more than 910 software licensing DRM and content protection patents worldwide Macrovision is headquartered in Santa Clara California and has offices worldwide Macrovision Solutions Maximize the Value of Your Software Software Value Management is a set of best practices that allows software vendors and their enterprise customers to maximize the value of the software applications they create use and maintain Once an application is developed by the engineering department publishers use Software Value Management tools to maximize its revenue potential These tools include installers and licensing tools that help publishers flexibly package price and protect their products Their enterprise customers use Software Value Management FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 13 Welcome to Macrovision Macrovision Professional Services tools to maximize the productivity that they get from the software they purchase These tools enable cor
133. n must be enabled The data in report logs is compressed authenticated and organized into a respository Use Macrovision s software license administration solution FLEXnet Manager to gain exceptional visibility into license usage data and to create insightful reports on critical information like license availability and usage FLEXnet Manager can be fully automated to run these reports on schedule and can be used to track license servers and usage across a heterogeneous network of server including Windows NT Linux and UNIX Contact Macrovision at www macrovision com for more details on how to obtain an evaluation copy of FLEXnet Manager for your enterprise Managing Report Log Output As a vendor daemon runs for a period of time the volume of report log output increases If you have a lot of license activity these log files grow very large You need to consider where to put these files and how often to rotate and archive them Therefore it may be necessary to rotate or switch report log output into different files over time each file containing license activity over a particular period of time Report log data is collected by the vendor daemon into an internal data buffer area before being flushed to the output file The daemon s internal buffer is flushed once a minute or whenever it gets full whichever occurs first To ensure the freshest data FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 147 Chapte
134. n this license file new debug log Path to new debug log file By default debug log output from 1mgrd and all vendor daemons started by that 1lmgrd get written into the same debug file 1mswi tch allows companies to keep separate log files for different vendors and control the size of their debug log file If debug log output is not already directed to a separate file for this vendor daemon 1mswitch tells the vendor daemon to start writing its debug log output to a file new debug log If this vendor daemon is already writing to its own debug log 1mswitch tells the vendor daemon to close its current debug log file and start writing its debug log output to new debug log FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 59 Chapter 4 License Administration Tools Imswitchr Note The effect of 1mswi tch continues only until the vendor daemon is shut down or its options file is reread via Imreread When the vendor daemon is restarted or its options file is reread it looks for a DEBUGLOG line in the options file to determine whether or not to write its debug log output into its own file and if so what file to write See Also DEBUGLOG Imreread The Debug Log File Imswitchr 60 The Imswitchr utility switches the report log file by closing the existing report log and starting a new report log with a new file name It also starts a new report log file if one does not already exist Usage Imswitchr
135. n vendor daemon 37 Duplicate selection mismatch for this feature Obsolete with version 8 0 or later vendor daemon 38 User host on EXCLUDE list for feature 39 User host not on INCLUDE list for feature 40 Cannot allocate dynamic memory 41 Feature was never checked out 42 Invalid parameter 47 Clock setting check not available in vendor daemon 52 Vendor daemon did not respond within timeout interval 53 Checkout request rejected by vendor defined checkout filter 54 No FEATURESET line in license file 55 Incorrect FEATURESET line in license file 140 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter C FLEXnet Licensing Error Codes Error Code Descriptions Table C 1 FLEXnet Licensing Error Codes cont Error Code Description 56 Cannot compute FEATURESET data from license file 572 socket call failed 59 Message checksum failure 60 License server system message checksum failure 61 Cannot read license file data from license server system 62 Network software TCP IP not available 63 You are not a license administrator 64 Imremove request before the minimum Imremove interval 67 No licenses available to borrow 68 License BORROW support not enabled 69 FLOAT OK can t run standalone on license server system 71 Invalid TZ environment variable 73 Local checkout filter rejected
136. name Reserves licenses for a specific user Table 5 19 RESERVE Terms Term Description num_lic Number of license to reserve for this user or group feature Feature or package this reservation applies to keyword value Feature name modifier to denote a group of licenses See Specifying Features for details type One of USER HOST DISPLAY INTERNET PROJECT GROUP or HOST_GROUP See Specifying License Restrictions Using Type for details name Name of an item of type type for which license usage is reserved group_name Name of group for which license usage is reserved To reserve one license of feature f1 for user mel RESERVE 1 f1 USER mel If you want to reserve a license for each of several users or groups you must use a separate RESERVE line for each user or group If a package name is specified all components that comprise the package are reserved Note Any licenses reserved for a user are dedicated to that user Even when that user is not actively using the license it is unavailable to other users However a RESERVEd license does not cause usage to be reported by FLEXnet Manager if the license is not actually in use FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 5 The Options File Options File Syntax TIMEOUT This option applies to concurrent licenses held in license files and trusted storage TIMEOUT feature keyword value seconds Sets the time afte
137. name host FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 101 Chapter 7 Hostids for FLEXnet Licensing Supported Platforms Special FLEXnet Licensing Hostids Table 7 2 Special Hostid Types Hostid Description ID n Functionally equivalent to the ANY hostid it runs on any machine The difference is that the license is unique and is used to identify the end user This hostid is used to lock the license server system on the SERVER line or the FLEXenabled application on the FEATURE INCREMENT line The number can have dashes included for readability the dashes are ignored Examples e D 12345678 is the same as ID 1234 5678 is the same as e D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 INTERNET Locks the software to an Internet IP address or group of IP addresses HHH HHH HHH Wildcards are allowed For example 198 156 means any host with a matching internet IP address The main use is to limit usage access by subnet implying geographic area For this purpose it is used on the FEATURE INCREMENT line as a hostid lock USER user Locks the software to user name user Examples FEATURE f1 demo 1 0 1 jan 2005 uncounted HOSTID FLEXID 6 a6300015f SIGN AB28E0011DA1 or FEATURE f1 demo 1 0 1 jan 2005 uncounted HOSTID INTERNET 10 10 10 SIGN EB78201163B0 102 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 License File Format License files usually begin
138. ncounted SIGN signaturel HOSTID 17007ea8 FEATURE f1 sampled 1 00 1 jan 2005 uncounted SIGN signature2 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 25 Chapter 1 License File Basics Types of License Files HOSTID 1700ab12 FEATURE f1 sampled 1 00 1 jan 2005 2 SIGN signature3 This configuration requires an 1mgrd and a vendor daemon because the concurrent usage of the two licenses on the third FEATURE line is counted 26 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Managing Licenses from Multiple Vendors Since more than 2 500 vendors have chosen FLEXnet Licensing for their licensing management chances are good that you have to administer FLEXnet Licensing licenses from more than one vendor Overview of Multiple License Management Strategies When you are running FLEXenabled products from multiple vendors you may need to take steps to prevent licensing conflicts during installation There are several strategies to accomplish this three of which are presented herein m Multiple machines each running one Imgrd one vendor daemon and using one license file m One license server machine running multiple Imgrds each of which running one vendor daemon and using one license file m One license server machine running one Imgrd multiple vendor daemons each of which using its own license file License files share a common directory These strategies are ordered
139. nent Compatibility 36 When one Imgrd process manages multiple vendor daemons it may be the case that those vendor daemons do not use the same version of FLEXnet Licensing By observing the FLEXnet Licensing version compatibility rules described in Version Compatibility with FLEXnet Licensing Components you are assured that all of your FLEXnet Licensing components are compatible For specific FLEXenabled applications use either the new or the old version of course the vendor daemon for that application must be at least as new as the application itself FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Selecting License Server Machines This chapter helps you decide which machines to use as license server machines Resources Used by the Server This section discusses the resources used by the license server system When you select a server machine you may need to take into account the system limits on these resources For small numbers of licenses under about 100 most of these system limits are not a problem on any workstation Sockets When using TCP IP ports each FLEXenabled application connected to a license server system uses one or more sockets The number of sockets any one FLEXenabled application requires is dependant on FLEXnet Licensing implementation details consult your vendor for this information The number of sockets available to the license server system is defined by the per process
140. nents Impath version 8 0 or later vendor daemon 1mswi tch version 8 0 or later vendor daemon utilities m mreread rereads end user options file and SERVER host name m License borrowing with BORROW keyword Version 8 1 January 2002 m CRO Security enhancements Version 8 2 August 2002 m Support added for Windows XP compliancy Version 8 3 October 2002 m Support added for returning borrowed licenses early Version 8 4 January 2003 m Support for reserved package suites Version 9 0 March 2003 Support for COMPOSITE hostid type Version 9 2 July 2003 m Options file keywords added GROUPCASEINSENSITIVE and MAX_BORROW_HOURS Version 9 5 November 2004 New environment variable LM_UTIL_CASE_SENSITIVE Version 10 0 April 2004 m Released as FLEXnet Licensing m Support for fully qualified domain names Version 10 1 November 2004 m Additional FLEXid driver support for USB dongles Version 10 8 April 2005 m IPv6 address support for hostids m Enhanced three server redundant configuration support FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter F FLEXnet Licensing Versions Version Summary Support for common vendor daemons Version 11 1 November 2005 m Support for license rights in trusted storage m IPv6 support for hostids reverted in this release FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 161 Chapt
141. ns File Creating an Options File PROJECT identification set by LM_PROJECT in options file was introduced in version 7 0 vendor daemon Option file control for licenses held in fulfillment records in trusted storage has been introduced in 11 3 vendor daemon Creating an Options File Kag Task To create an options file 1 Use the appropriate options listed in Options File Syntax to create the options file for a vendor daemon using any text editor Locate the options file anywhere however it is recommended that the options file be placed in the same directory as the license file Add the path to the options file in the license file as the fourth field on the VENDOR line for the application s vendor daemon For example VENDOR sampled etc sampled options sample_app sampled licenses sampled opt enables the sampled vendor daemon to look at the specified options file If the path is omitted the vendor daemon automatically looks for a file according to the following criteria the name of the file is vendor opt where vendor is the vendor daemon name the directory that contains the license file used by Imgrd Note The default options file name vendor opt introduced in version 6 vendor daemon Options File Syntax Below is an overview of the options file syntax See Options File Examples for examples and additional information 64 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revisi
142. nse File Format Overview License files usually begin with a SERVER line or three lines for three server redundant servers followed by one or more VENDOR lines followed by one or more FEATURE or INCREMENT lines In some cases the license file requires no SERVER line and no VENDOR line You can modify these elements in the license file Host names on the SERVER lines m TCP IP port numbers on the SERVER lines m Paths on the VENDOR lines FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 23 Chapter 1 License File Basics Types of License Files m Options file paths on the VENDOR lines Optional TCP IP port numbers on the VENDOR lines for firewall support only m USE_SERVER line m Values in keyword value pairs on FEATURE lines if keyword is specified in lowercase See Also Redundant License Server Systems Counted vs Uncounted Licenses License File Format for details on each one of these components USE_SERVER introduced in the version 5 0 client library VENDOR lines are known as DAEMON lines in version 6 0 and earlier Imgrd and vendor daemon Types of License Files License files are created by the software vendor License files specify floating concurrent usage node locked both counted and uncounted or any combination of floating counted and uncounted Floating Concurrent Licenses A floating license means anyone on the network can use the FLEXenabled application up to the limit
143. nse file is being used or the TCP IP port or host name in the license file has been changed WindowsXP SP2 platforms have a limit on the number of TCP IP connection attempts per second that can be made which your application may have exceeded Refer to the manufacturer s documentation on how to change this limit 16 Cannot read data from license server system 17 Cannot write data to license server system 18 License server system does not support this feature 19 Error in select system call FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 139 Chapter C FLEXnet Licensing Error Codes Error Code Descriptions Table C 1 FLEXnet Licensing Error Codes cont Error Code Description 21 License file does not support this version 22 Feature checkin failure detected at license server system 23 License server system temporarily busy new server connecting 24 Users are queued for this feature 25 License server system does not support this version of this feature 26 Request for more licenses than this feature supports 29 Cannot find ethernet device 30 Cannot read license file 31 Feature start date is in the future 32 No such attribute 33 Bad encryption handshake with vendor daemon 34 Clock difference too large between client and license server system 35 In the queue for this feature 36 Feature database corrupted i
144. ntax using quotation marks and spaces feature keyword value The following option keywords are used as feature name modifiers to denote a specific group of licenses m VERSION m HOSTID m EXPDATE m KEY m SIGN FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 5 The Options File Options File Syntax m ISSUER m NOTICE m VENDOR_STRING if configured by the vendor as a pooling component m dist_info m user_info m asset_info If the USER_BASED or HOST_BASED keywords appear in a feature line this feature specification syntax must be used to qualify the feature Using a package name in place of a feature name applies the option to all of the components in the package Specifying License Restrictions Using Type Some option keywords restrict who may use licenses or where licenses may be used These options take a type argument that specifies what the restriction is based on When using the option keywords EXCLUDE EXCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT EXCLUDEALL EXCLUDE BORROW INCLUDE INCLUDE ENTITLEMENT INCLUDEALL INCLUDE BORROW MAX and RESERVE the following values can be used for type m USER user name of the user executing the FLEXenabled application User names are case sensitive m HOST machine host name or IP address where the application is executing Host names are case sensitive The IP address can contain wildcard characters The IP address can contain wildcard char
145. nted lic instal dini86 nINmgrd di M Figure 9 4 LMTOOLS with Config Services tab selected 2 Make this license server manager a Windows service by selecting the Use Services check box otherwise it becomes a FLEXnet Licensing service 3 Configure it to start at system startup time by selecting the Start Server at Power Up check box From now on when the machine is rebooted this license server manager starts automatically as a Windows service FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 127 Chapter 9 The License Server Manager Starting the License Server Manager on Windows 128 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Troubleshooting Guide This appendix documents areas of FLEXnet Licensing that have given customers difficulty in the past General Troubleshooting Hints This list provides some general debugging information When you start the license server system be sure that you direct the output into a local log file where you can examine it The log file often contains useful information Examine it when you have a problem and be prepared to answer questions about it when you talk to a support person If the license server system appears to have started correctly which you can determine from the log file try running Imstat a and Imdiag to see if that program has the same problem as your application If your application
146. om www macrovision com and you will automatically enjoy many of the enhancements available in the most recent versions of FLEXnet Licensing However some enhancements require a vendor daemon built with a newer version of FLEXnet Licensing and yet others require a FLEXenabled application built with a newer version of FLEXnet Licensing Contact your software vendor for the most current version of their vendor daemon The rules about FLEXnet Licensing version compatibility are summarized as m Version of Imuti1 LMTOOLS must be gt m Version of Imgrd which must be gt m Version of vendor daemon which must be gt m Version of the client library linked to the FLEXenabled application which must be e i Version of license file format Except for the license file use 1mver to discover the version of all these FLEXnet Licensing components For the vendor daemon Imgrd and Imutil you can also use the v argument to print the version FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 155 Chapter F FLEXnet Licensing Versions Determining the License File Version Determining the License File Version The following rules apply to individual FEATURE INCREMENT or UPGRADE lines It is possible to have a mix of versions in a single file Only the features that a particular application checks out determine the version of the license for that feature Table F 1 Determining the License File Version Version D
147. ompatible license files into one file then edit out the extra SERVER lines so that only one set of SERVER lines remains Save the resulting data and you have your combined license file Figure 2 5 shows an example of combining license files Vendor ABC s License File SERVER alpha 17007ea8 VENDOR ABC INCREMENT f1 ABC INCREMENT f2 ABC Combined License File SERVER alpha 17007ea8 Vendor DEF s License File VENDOR ABC VENDOR DEF SERVER alpha 17007ea8 VENDOR XYZ VENDOR DEF INCREMENT f1 ABC INCREMENT f3 DEF INCREMENT f2 ABC INCREMENT f4 DEF INCREMENT f3 DEF INCREMENT f4 DEF INCREMENT f5 XYZ INCREMENT f6 XYZ Vendor XYZ s License File SERVER alpha 17007ea8 VENDOR XYZ INCREMENT f5 XYZ INCREMENT f6 XYZ Vendor GHI s License File SERVER tao 13004dfa 5 5 VENDOR GHI This license file cannot be combined with the ones above INCREMENT f5 GHI a mae INCREMENT f6 GHI because its server is different Vendor JKL s License File This license file cannot be SERVER alpha INTERNET 10 10 10 combined with the ones above VENDOR JKL for server alpha because the INCREMENT f5 GHI host id is a different type even INCREMENT f6 GHI though the server name is the same Figure 2 5 Combining License Files FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 35 Chapter 2 Managing Licenses from Multiple Vendors Additional Considerations Version Compo
148. on 01 Chapter 5 The Options File Options File Syntax Each line of the file controls one option Table 5 1 lists the option keywords Table 5 1 Option Keywords Option Keyword Description BORROW_LOWWATER Set the number of BORROW licenses that cannot be borrowed DEBUGLOG Writes debug log information for this vendor daemon to the specified file version 8 0 or later vendor daemon EXCLUDE Deny a user access to a feature EXCLUDE_BORROW Deny a user the ability to borrow BORROW licenses EXCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT Deny a user the ability to activate licenses held in a fulfillment record in trusted storage EXCLUDEALL Deny a user access to all features served by this vendor daemon FQDN_MATCHING Sets the level of host name matching GROUP Define a group of users for use with any options GROUPCASEINSENSITIVE Sets case sensitivity for user and host lists specified in GROUP and HOST_GROUP keywords HOST_GROUP Define a group of hosts for use with any options version 4 0 or later INCLUDE Allow a user to use a feature INCLUDE_BORROW Allow a user to borrow BORROW licenses INCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT Allow a user to activate licenses held in a fulfillment record in trusted storage INCLUDEALL Allow a user to use all features served by this vendor daemon LINGER Allow a user to extend the linger time for a feature beyond its checkin MAX Limit usage for a particular feature group prioritizes us
149. on separated list on UNIX and a semi colon separated list on Windows If license file list is the null string then the specified entry is deleted Note 1mpath works by setting the FLEXnet Licensing registry entry on Windows or HOME FlexI1mrc on UNIX To display the current license path settings Impath status The following is displayed Impath Copyright C 1989 2002 Macrovision Corporation Known Vendors demo counted lic uncounted lic Other Vendors usr local flex lm licenses license lic Note that where the path is set to a directory all the 1ic files are listed separately Imremove 54 The 1mremove utility allows you to remove a single user s license for a specified feature If the application is active it rechecks out the license shortly after it is freed by Imremove Usage Imremove c license file list feature user user host display or FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Task Chapter 4 License Administration Tools Imremove Imremove c license file list h feature server host port handle where Table 4 10 Imremove Argument Usage Argument C license file list Description Specify license files feature Name of the feature checked out by the user user Name of the user whose license you are removing as reported by Imstat a user_host Name of the host the user is logged into as reported by Imstat a
150. orting information optional FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 137 Chapter C FLEXnet Licensing Error Codes Error Code Descriptions Error messages were improved in version 6 FLEXnet Licensing Error Explanation and supporting information are only available in applications using version 6 0 and later These error messages may occur in two formats available with FLEXnet Licensing or may appear in a format customized by the application Format 1 short FLEX1m error text 7m_errno minor num sys errno sys_error_text The system error information may be missing Example Can t connect to license server system 15 12 61 Connection refused Format 2 long version 6 0 and later FLEX1m error text FLEX1m error explanation Optional Supporting information FLEX1m error m errno minor num System Error sys_errno system error text Example Cannot connect to license server system The server 1mgrd has not been started yet or the wrong port host or license file is being used or the port or hostname in the license file has been changed Feature fi Server name localhost License path localhost license dat lic FLEX1m error 15 12 System Error 61 Connection refused Error Code Descriptions 138 The following table lists the most common errors produced by FLEXenabled products Table C 1 FLEXnet Licensing Error Codes Error Code Descri
151. ou have questions about using FLEXnet Licensing In these communities users like you share tips and ideas and help each other get the most out of FLEXnet Licensing Visit the communities in the Support section of our Web site available at http community macrovision com You can also visit the Centralized Enterprise Licensing User Group community which can be found at http celug com Contacting Macrovision Technical Support Macrovision offers a variety of maintenance plans to fit the individual needs of all of our customers Please visit http www macrovision com support maintenance shtml to find the plan that suits you best Contacting Macrovision Corporation You may contact us from anywhere in the world by visiting the Macrovision Web site at http www macrovision com United States Table 3 United States Contact Information Office Corporate Headquarters Santa Clara Office Video and Music Technologies FLEXnet Publisher Macrovision Chicago Office Licensing Technologies InstallShield InstallAnywhere FLEXnet AdminStudio FLEXnet Manager Macrovision San Francisco Office Games Technologies Address Macrovision Corporation 2830 De La Cruz Blvd Santa Clara CA 95050 Macrovision Corporation 900 National Pkwy Suite 125 Schaumburg IL 60173 Macrovision Corporation 795 Folsom Street 2nd Floor Suite 200 San Francisco CA 94107 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document
152. pe is not installed 112 Missing dongle driver In order to read the FLEXid hostid the correct driver must be installed These drivers are available from your software vendor 114 SIGN keyword required but missing from license certificate You need to obtain a SIGN version of this license from your vendor 115 Error in Public Key package 116 TRL not supported for this platform 117 BORROW failed 118 BORROW period expired 119 Imdown and Imreread must be run on license server machine 120 Cannot Imdown the server when licenses are borrowed 121 FLOAT_OK requires exactly one FLEXid hostid 122 Unable to delete local borrow info 123 Returning a borrowed license early is not supported Contact the vendor for further details 124 Error returning borrowed license 125 A PACKAGE component must be specified 126 Composite hostid not initialized 127 A item needed for the composite hostid is missing or invalid 128 Error borrowed license doesn t match any known server license 135 Error enabling the event log 136 Event logging is disabled 137 Error writing to the event log 139 Communications timeout FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 143 Chapter C FLEXnet Licensing Error Codes Error Code Descriptions Table C 1 FLEXnet Licensing Error Codes cont Error Code Description
153. porate IT staff to repackage applications resolve potential conflicts optimize license purchases and manage updates Table 1 Macrovision Software Technologies Group Solutions Industries amp Activities FLEXnet Software Value Management Solutions Software Vendors e InstallShield Tools for authoring installations and e Market Software software management for any operating system Saab e FLEXnet Publisher Price package protect their ie product and manage software licenses throughout e Distribute Software their lifecycle to better meet market needs and e Service Software maximize revenue e Renew Software Enterprise IS and IT e InstallShield Tools for authoring installations and e Buy Software software management for any operating system e Prepare amp Deploy Software e FLEXnet Publisher Price package protect my Hina product and manage software licenses throughout e Maintain Software their lifecycle to better meet market needs and e Renew Software maximize revenue e FLEXnet AdminStudio Application packaging customization testing and workflow management for the enterprise e FLEXnet Manager Maximize the value of your software assets through accurate usage reporting and centralized license management Try a Macrovision Solution Today Evaluation copies of Macrovision solutions are available from the Macrovision Web site or from our sales staff Visit us online at http www macrovision com or
154. port host setting where port and host are the TCP IP port number and host name from the SERVER line in the license file Alternatively use the shortcut specification host if the license file SERVER line uses a default TCP IP port or specifies a port in the default port range 27000 27009 Acomma separated list of three port host specifiers denoting a three server redundant configuration For example port1 host1 port2 host2 port3 host3 specifies the three server redundant configuration composed of host1 host2 and host3 Applications accept an environment variable or Windows Registry named VENDOR LICENSE FILE where VENDOR is the vendor daemon name for example MVSN LICENSE FILE This environment variable s scope is limited to just those applications from vendor VENDOR On UNIX the license file list components are separated by colons on Windows the components are separated by semicolons With Imgrd and Imutil Imstat Imdown and so on the c option overrides the setting of the LM_LICENSE_ FILE environment variable Note Some applications do not recognize the LM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable FLEXenabled Java applications in particular do not recognize it See Also Managing Multiple License Files for more information about LM_LICENSE_FILE Environment Variables Default TCP IP port number range introduced in version 6 0 of Imgrd License file location dialog introduced in version 6 0 of the client library Lice
155. pter 9 The License Server Manager Imgrd Command Line Syntax Usage Imgrd c license file list 1 debug_log_path 2 p local x Imdown x Imremove z v help where Table 9 1 Imgrd Command Line Syntax Usage C license file list Use the specified license files debug log path Write debugging information to file debug 1og path This option uses the letter 1 not the numeral 1 Prepending debug log path with the character appends logging entries See The Debug Log File for more information on this file 2 p Restricts usage of Imdown Imreread and 1mremove to a FLEXnet Licensing administrator who is by default root If there a UNIX group called Imadmin then use is restricted to only members of that group If root is not a member of this group then root does not have permission to use any of the above utilities If 2 p is used when starting 1mgrd no user on Windows can shut down the license server system with Imdown local Restricts the Imdown and Imreread commands to be run only from the same machine where Imgrd is running x Imdown Disable the Imdown command no user can run 1mdown If 1mdown is disabled stop Imgrd via ki11 pid UNIX or stop the Imgrd and vendor daemon processes through the Windows Task Manager or Windows service On UNIX be sure the ki11 command does not have a 9 argument x Imremove Disable the Imremove command no user can run Imremove Z Run in foreground Th
156. ption 1 Cannot find license file 2 Invalid license file syntax FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter C FLEXnet Licensing Error Codes Error Code Descriptions Table C 1 FLEXnet Licensing Error Codes cont Error Code Description 3 No license server system for this feature 4 Licensed number of users already reached 5 No such feature exists 6 No TCP IP port number in license file and FLEXnet Licensing service does not exist pre v6 only 7 No socket connection to license server manager service 8 Invalid inconsistent license key or signature The license key signature and data for the feature do not match This usually happens when a license file has been altered 9 Invalid host The hostid of this system does not match the hostid specified in the license file 10 Feature has expired 11 Invalid date format in license file 12 Invalid returned data from license server system 13 No SERVER lines in license file 14 Cannot find SERVER host name in network database The lookup for the host name on the SERVER line in the license file failed This often happens when NIS or DNS or the hosts file is incorrect Workaround Use IP address for example 123 456 789 123 instead of host name 15 Cannot connect to license server system The server 1mgrd has not been started yet or the wrong port host or lice
157. r D The Report Log File Enabling Report Log Output for a Vendor Daemon possible in the report log file flush the buffer on demand with the Imreread command Use standard file compression tools to reduce the size of a report log file when it is no longer being written To avoid corruption and for performance it is suggested that the vendor daemon write its report log to a file on a disk local to the system running the vendor daemon Each vendor daemon must write to its own report log file Enabling Report Log Output for a Vendor Daemon There are two ways to enable report logging for a particular vendor daemon either before or after starting the license server system m Add the REPORTLOG line to the options file for that vendor daemon See REPORTLOG for more details Invoke Imswitchr on the vendor daemon See Imswitchr for more details Redirecting Report Log Output for a Vendor Daemon The report log output for a particular vendor daemon can be moved into separate files each file representing activity over a different period of time There are three ways in which to do this whether the vendor daemon is running or not m Change the REPORTLOG line in the vendor daemon s options file and reread its options file by invoking Imreread version 8 0 or later vendor daemon or restart Invoke Imswitchr on the vendor daemon See lmswitchr for more details m Invoke Imnewlog on the vendor daemon Requires a version 7 1 or later vendor
158. r vendor Check directly with your vendor to determine if early borrowed license return is supported Returning the license early has the effect of clearing the LM BORROW setting for the vendor daemon that serves the returned license Support for License Borrowing See the following sections for more information about the utilities and end user options that support license borrowing Imborrow Imdown Imstat BORROW_LOWWATER mw EXCLUDE_BORROW m INCLUDE_BORROW 96 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 6 Mobile Licensing Node locked to a User Name BORROW keyword introduced in version 8 0 client library license server manager and vendor daemon All components must be version 8 0 or later in order to use BORROW Node locked to a User Name If a license is to be used exclusively by one user on different machines that license can be node locked to the user s user name The license file is copied to the different machines on which the user might work the user s user name must be identical on each machine For this method to be useful individual user names in an organization need to be unique Fulfilled from a Prepaid License Pool In this method the end user buys a prepaid number of license days from the vendor The end user can then fulfill a license using a partial amount of the total license days for the given borrow period node locked to a particular machine For
159. r which an inactive license is freed and reclaimed by the vendor daemon Note The vendor must have enabled this feature in the FLEXenabled application for it to work Contact your software vendor to find out if this feature is implemented Table 5 20 TIMEOUT Terms Term Description feature Name of the feature keyword value Feature name modifier to denote a group of licenses See Specifying Features for details seconds Number of seconds after which inactive license is reclaimed The vendor sets a minimum value lf you specify a value for seconds that is smaller than the vendor s minimum the minimum is used To set the timeout for feature fi to one hour 3600 seconds TIMEOUT f1 3600 TIMEOUT checks in the licenses if the FLEXenabled application has been inactive for a period longer than the specified time period The daemon declares a process inactive when it has not received heartbeats from it whereas an active FLEXenabled application sends heartbeats A TIMEOUT line must be present in the options file in order to take advantage of the vendor enabled timeout feature TIMEOUTALL This option applies to concurrent licenses held in license files and trusted storage TIMEOUTALL seconds Same as TIMEOUT but applies to all features FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 83 Chapter 5 The Options File How the Vendor Daemon Uses the Options File How the Vendor Daemon Uses the Options
160. request 74 Attempt to read beyond end of license file path 75 lt Super gt a SYSSSETIMR call failed VMS 76 Internal FLEXnet Licensing error Please report error to Macrovision Corporation 77 Bad version number must be floating point number with no letters 82 Invalid PACKAGE line in license file 83 FLEXnet Licensing version of client newer than server 84 USER_BASED license has no specified users see license server system log 85 License server system doesn t support this request 87 Checkout exceeds MAX specified in options file 88 System clock has been set back 89 This platform not authorized by license FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 141 Chapter C FLEXnet Licensing Error Codes Error Code Descriptions Table C 1 FLEXnet Licensing Error Codes cont Error Code Description 90 Future license file format or misspelling in license file The file was issued for a later version of FLEXnet Licensing than this program understands 91 Encryption seeds are non unique 92 Feature removed during Imreread or wrong SERVER line hostid 93 This feature is available in a different license pool This is a warning condition The server has pooled one or more INCREMENT lines into a single pool and the request was made on an INCREMENT line that has been pooled 94 Attempt to generate license with incompatible attribu
161. revision 01 Telephone Tel 408 562 8400 Fax 408 567 1800 Email corpinfo macrovision com Tel 847 466 4000 Toll Free 800 374 4353 Sales 847 466 6000 Sales Toll Free 800 809 5659 Order Fax 847 619 0788 Tel 415 255 3060 Fax 415 255 0910 Email gamesales macrovision com 17 Welcome to Macrovision Contacting Macrovision Corporation Table 3 United States Contact Information cont Office Address Telephone Macrovision New York Macrovision Corporation Tel 212 219 4400 Office 81 Franklin Street Suite 500 Toll Free 800 804 0103 Information Commerce New York NY 10013 Fax 212 219 4401 Group eMeta eRights Suite RightAccess RightCommerce eRightsWEB 18 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Welcome to Macrovision Contacting Macrovision Corporation Europe Middle East and Africa Region Table 4 Europe Middle East amp Africa Contact Information Office Macrovision UK Maidenhead Office Address Macrovision UK Ltd Malvern House 14 18 Bell Street Maidenhead Berkshire SL6 1BR United Kingdom Macrovision UK Europe Macrovision Corporation Cheshire Office FLEXnet Publisher FLEXnet Manager Vision House Priory Court Preston Brook Cheshire WA7 3FR United Kingdom Macrovision UK Europe Macrovision Corporation Cheshire Office InstallShield InstallAnywhere Update Service FLEXnet AdminStudio Macro
162. rovision com Macrovision Japan and Asia K K Japan Office Macrovision Corporation Takaha Building 2F 6 18 5 Jingumae Shibuya ku Tokyo 150 0001 Japan Tel 81 3 5774 6253 Fax 81 3 5774 6269 Macrovision Korea Office Macrovision Corporation Suite 417 Korea City Air Terminal B D 159 6 Samsung dong Kangnam ku Seoul 135 728 Korea Tel 82 2 6241 5700 Fax 82 2 6241 5701 Mobile 82 11 779 0445 Macrovision Corporation Taiwan Office Macrovision Corporation 6F 13 No 12 Lane 609 Sec 5 Chung Hsin Rd San Chung Taipei Taiwan 241 Tel 886 2 2999 7979 Fax 886 2 2999 7575 Email Keith Lien macrovision com FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 License File Basics The license file contains information required by FLEXnet Licensing to manage licenses for a FLEXenabled application This information includes m License server system names and hostids m Vendor names and paths to vendor daemon executables m Feature information In general the license file or a copy of it must be accessible to every machine that runs a FLEXenabled application and to each machine designated as a license server machine Specifying Location of the License File Software vendors often recommend a specific location for your license file If you are running the application on multiple machines you have these options for making your licen
163. s 35 specifying location 21 types 24 UPGRADE line 116 USE_SERVER line 109 VENDOR line 107 with multiple servers 106 121 license pool 66 110 license rehosting 89 license server debugging 129 deciding number of nodes 39 disk space used 38 install as Windows service 62 sockets used 37 license server manager 119 license file list 32 license file list redundancy 40 LINGER 78 LM_BORROW 134 LM_LICENSE_FILE 135 LM_PROJECT 134 reporting on project 81 use in options file 67 LM_SERVER_HIGHEST_FD 134 Imdiag syntax 48 troubleshooting 48 Imdown disabling 120 restricting access 120 syntax 49 Imgrd and redundant servers 106 121 compatibility between versions 119 debug log file 151 memory usage 38 overview 119 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 165 Index shutting down 49 starting 119 121 starting debug log 120 syntax 119 use latest 155 Imhostid syntax 50 Imhostid syntax 50 Iminstall license file format 51 syntax 51 Imnewlog syntax 52 Imremove disabling 120 restricting access 120 syntax 54 Imreread restricting access 120 syntax 56 Imstat output for Imreread 57 syntax 57 Imswitch syntax 59 Imswitchr syntax 60 LMTOOLS 61 Imutil Imdiag 48 Imdown 49 Imhostid 50 Iminstall 51 Imnewlog 52 Imremove 54 Imreread 56 Imstat 57 Imswitch 59 Imswitchr 60 Imver 61 Imver syntax 61 Macrovision 13 Consulting Services 15 Contact Information 16 166 contacting 17 Produc
164. s in the license file License files are candidates for combining under the following conditions The number of SERVER lines in each file is the same m The hostid field of each SERVER line in one file exactly matches the hostid field of each SERVER line in the other file Some possible reasons license files may not be compatible are m License files are set up to run on different server machines so hostids are different m One file is set up for a single server system has only one SERVER line the other is set up for a three server redundant license server configuration has multiple SERVER lines Hostids for the same machine use different hostid types For example the SERVER line in one license file uses INTERNET for its hostid type and the other file uses the ethernet MAC address for its hostid type If your license files are compatible as described above then you have the option of combining license files as summarized in Figure 2 4 and below in How to Combine License Files Note that you are not required to combine compatible license files There is no performance or system load penalty for not combining the files 34 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 2 Managing Licenses from Multiple Vendors Additional Considerations How to Combine License Files If your license files are compatible use any text editor to combine them To combine license files read all of the c
165. ses available on all the machines m Place the license file in a partition which is available to all machines in the network that need the license file m Copy the license file to all of the machines where it is needed m SettheLM LICENSE FILE or VENDOR LICENSE FILE where VENDOR is the vendor daemon name environment variable to port host where host and port come from the SERVER line in the license file Alternatively if the license file SERVER line specifies a TCP IP port in the default port range 27000 27009 or does not specify a port thereby allowing the system to choose one from the default range use the shortcut specification host FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 21 Chapter 1 License File Basics Specifying Location of the License File m For three server redundant server configurations use a comma separated list of three port host specifiers denoting the three server redundant configuration For example porti host1 port2 host2 port3 host3 specifies the three server redundant configuration composed of host1 host2 and host3 Table 1 1shows some examples of LM LICENSE FILE and VENDOR LICENSE FILE environment variable settings Table 1 1 Environment Variable Specification Examples LM LICENSE FILE or VENDOR LICENSE FILE SERVER Line Setting SERVER myserver 17007ea8 40000 where 40000 myserver e host myserver e port 40000 SERVER myserver 17007ea8
166. set in this case the resulting number of licenses is mum 1ic on the COMPONENTS line multiplied by the number of licenses in the FEATURE INCREMENT line Examples COMPONENTS comp1 comp2 comp3 comp4 COMPONENTS comp1 1 5 comp2 comp3 2 0 4 OPTIONS SUITE Optional field Used to denote a package suite If set the corresponding feature of the same name as the package is checked out in addition to the component feature being checked out If not set then the corresponding feature of the same name as the package is removed once the package is enabled it is not checked out when a component feature is checked out OPTIONS Optional field If set reserves a set of package components Once SUITE RESERVED one package component is checked out all the other components are reserved for that same user SUPERSEDE Optional field Used in conjunction with ISSUED date Replaces all p1 p2 PACKAGE lines for the same package name with ISSUED dates previous to dd mmm yyyy ISSUED Optional field Used in conjunction with SUPERSEDE Replaces all dd mmm yyyy PACKAGE lines for the same package name with ISSUED dates previous to dd mmm yyyy FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 115 Chapter 8 License File Format License File Syntax Table 8 6 PACKAGE Line Fields cont Description SIGN sign or SIGN signature to authenticate this FEATURE line If your publisher has deployed his vendor daemon usin
167. sion 6 client library and vendor daemon License File Order The order of the lines in a license file is not critical They are sorted when they are processed so that in most cases the optimal result is achieved However version 7 0 and earlier versions of FLEXenabled applications and license server systems implicitly impose an ordering to license file lines Note the following suggestions for ordering lines in the license file m Place FEATURE lines before INCREMENT lines for the same feature The rule regarding FEATURE lines is that only the first counted FEATURE line is observed by the license server system and that if there is a FEATURE line and INCREMENT lines the FEATURE line must appear first m Where multiple counted FEATURE lines exist for the same feature make sure the desired FEATURE line appears first All but the first is ignored FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 117 Chapter 8 License File Format License File Order o Place node locked uncounted lines before floating lines for the same FEATURE Otherwise it is possible the floating license is consumed instead of the node locked license resulting in denial for other users o The placement of a USE SERVER line affects behavior AUSE SERVER line is recommended Normally the USE_SERVER line is placed immediately after the SERVER line However place any uncounted licenses not served by SERVER before the USE_SERVER line M
168. specified in the license file also referred to as concurrent usage or network licensing Floating licenses have no hostids on the individual FEATURE lines Floating licenses requires an 1mgrd and a vendor daemon to be running to count the concurrent usage of the licenses An example of a license file that provides floating licenses is SERVER lulu 17007ea8 VENDOR sampled FEATURE f1 sampled 1 00 1 jan 2005 2 SIGN signaturel FEATURE f2 sampled 1 00 1 jan 2005 6 SIGN signature2 FEATURE f3 sampled 1 00 1 jan 2005 1 SIGN signature3 This license file specifies that two licenses for feature f1 six licenses for feature f2 and one license for feature f3 are available anywhere on the network that can access the license server machine lulu 1mgrd uses one of the default FLEXnet Licensing TCP IP ports 24 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 1 License File Basics Types of License Files Node Locked Licenses Node locking means the FLEXenabled software can only be used on one machine or a set of machines A node locked license has a hostid on any FEATURE line that is node locked to a particular host There are two types of node locked licenses uncounted and counted If the number of licenses is set to 0 or uncounted then the license is uncounted and unlimited use is permitted on the specified machine This configuration does not require an 1mgrd or a vendor daemon because it is not going to
169. t Licensing supports two methods of redundancy m viaa license file list in the LM LICENSE FILE environment variable m via a set of three redundant license server systems With LM_LICENSE_FILE list redundancy each one of a group of license server systems serves a subset of the total licenses The end user sets LM_LICENSE_FILE to a list of license files where each license file refers to one of the license server systems The application then tries each server in the list in order until it succeeds or gets to the end of the list With three server redundancy if any two of the three license server systems are up and running two out of three license server systems is referred to as a quorum the system is functional and serves its total complement of licenses See Also Managing Multiple License Files FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 39 Chapter 3 Selecting License Server Machines Redundant License Server Systems Redundancy via License File List This is best explained by example If ten licenses are desired for both fi and f2 the vendor issues two sets of licenses with a count of five for each of fi and f2 The server machines unlike three server redundancy can be physically distant The license files look like License 1 for chicago SERVER chicago 17007ea8 1700 VENDOR sampled etc mydaemon FEATURE f1 sampled 1 000 01 jan 2005 5 26C7DD9C0186 FEATURE f2 sampled 1 000 01 jan 200
170. t Support 15 products 13 Professional Services 14 Support Web site 16 Technical Support 16 Training 14 MAX 79 MAX_BORROW_HOURS 79 MAX_OVERDRAFT 80 memory usage daemons 38 mixed licenses 25 mobile licensing borrowing 93 FLEXid with FLOAT_OK 90 node locked to FLEXid 90 node locked to laptop 90 node locked to user name 97 prepaid license pool fulfillment 97 N network bandwidth and FLEXnet Licensing 38 network license 24 node locked license 25 NOLOG 80 NOTICE 111 O Online Communities help 17 options file BORROW_LOWWATER 68 creating 64 DEBUGLOG 69 DISPLAY type 67 examples 85 EXCLUDE 69 EXCLUDE_BORROW 70 EXCLUDEALL 71 GROUP type 74 GROUPCASEINSENSITIVE 74 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 HOST type 67 HOST_GROUP type 75 INCLUDE 75 INCLUDE_BORROW 76 INCLUDEALL 77 INTERNET type 67 LINGER 78 MAX 79 MAX_BORROW_HOURS 79 MAX_OVERDRAFT 80 NOLOG 80 PROJECT type 67 read by vendor daemon 84 REPORTLOG 81 required for HOST_BASED 111 required for USER_BASED 112 RESERVE 82 rules of precedence 84 TIMEOUT 83 TIMEOUTALL 83 type argument 67 USER type 67 options file path 108 OPTIONS SUITE 115 OPTIONS SUITE_RESERVED 115 order of lines in license file 26 117 OVERDRAFT 112 P PACKAGE line 114 AUTH 116 OPTIONS SUITE 115 OPTIONS SUITE_RESERVED 115 SIGN 116 signature 116 syntax 115 package suite 115 PLATFORMS 112 port number server default r
171. t platform Usage Imhostid n type utf8 Where Table 4 7 Imhostid Argument Usage Argument Description n Only the hostid itself is returned as a string which is appropriate to use with HOSTID in the license file Header text is suppressed FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 4 License Administration Tools Iminstall Table 4 7 Imhostid Argument Usage Argument Description type One of the following hostid types If not specified the default hostid for the current platform is displayed See Hostids for FLEXnet Licensing Supported Platforms for a list of the default types PLATFORM DEPENDENT HOSTIDS e ether Ethernet address e string String id e vsn Volume serial number Windows platforms only e flexid Parallel or USB FLEXid dongle identification This is applicable only for those platforms that support FLEXid dongles See FLEXnet Licensing Hostids for a complete list e ong 32 bit hostid PLATFORM INDEPENDENT HOSTIDS e user Current user name e display Current display name On Windows it is the system name or in the case of a terminal server environment the terminal server client name On UNIX it is in the form dev ttyxx or the X Display name e hostname Current host name e internet IP address of current platform in the form HEE HHH HHH HHH utf8 The hostid is output as a UTF 8 encoded string rather than an ASC
172. t vendor daemon One of the reasons you may want to limit the events that are logged is to reduce the size of the debug log output See Also NOLOG 150 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter E The Debug Log File Debug Log Messages Debug Log Messages FLEXnet Licensing processes generate debug log files in the following format hh mm ss daemon message where Table E 1 Debug Log Messages Message Description hh mm ss Time that the message was logged daemon Either Lmgrd or the vendor daemon name In the case where a single copy of the daemon cannot handle all of the requested licenses an optional followed by a number indicates that this message comes from a forked daemon message The text of the message The debug log files can be used to m Diagnose configuration problems m Diagnose daemon software errors Note A debug log file cannot be used for usage reporting with FLEXnet Manager Informational Messages Table E 2 lists the various informational messages using within FLEXnet Licensing Table E 2 FLEXnet Licensing Information Messages Message Description Connected to host This daemon is connected to its peer on host CONNECTED master is host The license daemons log this message when a quorum is up and everyone has selected a master DENIED num lic feature to user user was denied access to num_lic licenses of feature EXITIN
173. tes 95 Network connect to THIS_HOST failed Change this_host on the SERVER line in the license file to the actual host name 96 License server machine is down or not responding See the system administrator about starting the server or make sure that you re referring to the right host see LM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable 97 The desired vendor daemon is down 1 Check the Imgrd log file or 2 Try Imreread 98 This FEATURE line can t be converted to decimal format 99 The decimal format license is typed incorrectly 100 Cannot remove a linger license 101 All licenses are reserved for others The system administrator has reserved all the licenses for others Reservations are made in the options file The server must be restarted for options file changes to take effect 102 A FLEXid borrow error occurred 103 Terminal Server remote client not allowed 104 Cannot borrow that long 106 License server system out of network connections The vendor daemon can t handle any more users See the debug log for further information 142 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter C FLEXnet Licensing Error Codes Error Code Descriptions Table C 1 FLEXnet Licensing Error Codes cont Error Code Description 110 Cannot read dongle check dongle or driver Either the dongle is unattached or the necessary software driver for this dongle ty
174. th FLEXnet Licensing Imegrd m a license administration tool m avendor daemon For example if you have an application called spell type Imver spel License Administration Tools LMTOOLS for Windows For the 32 bit Windows platforms a graphical user interface to the license server manager tools is provided called LMTOOLS Always use the newest version of LMTOOLS as possible it is available for download from www macrovision com Some of the functions LMTOOLS performs include m starting stopping and configuring FLEXnet license server systems m getting system information including hostids m getting server status LMTOOLS has two modes in which to configure a license server system m Configuration using a license file Configuration using services FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 61 Chapter 4 License Administration Tools License Administration Tools LMTOOLS for Windows Configuration Using License File Operations are performed on a particular license file The file can be either local or remote In this mode you cannot start the Imgrd process but you can do everything else Task To configure this mode 1 Invoke LMTOOLS 2 Click the Configuration using License File button 3 Enter one or more the license file names or port host specifications Configuration Using Services Operations are performed on a service which allows starting 1mgrd processes local to t
175. the following components m the full path to the license file m adirectory containing one or more license files with a 1ic extension m aport host setting where port and host are the TCP IP port number and host name from the SERVER line in the license file Alternatively use the shortcut specification host if the license file SERVER line uses a default TCP IP port or specifies a port in the default port range 27000 27009 Acomma separated list of three port host specifiers denoting a three server redundant configuration For example port1 host1 port2 host2 port3 host3 specifies the three server redundant configuration composed of host 1 host2 and host3 Note Use a colon to separate the license file names on UNIX on Windows use a semicolon Imgrd builds up an internal license file list when it starts up by parsing each license file list component in the order listed FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 2 Managing Licenses from Multiple Vendors Additional Considerations Some scenarios where a license file list is used include those described in Multiple Machines One Machine with Multiple License Server Systems or One Machine with One License Server System and Multiple License Files See Also Setting the Path with an Environment Variable Redundancy via License File List FLEXnet Licensing Environment Variables Additional Considerations Combining l
176. this example the service name is Myvendor License Manager 4 Click the Start Stop Reread tab FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 125 Chapter 9 The License Server Manager Starting the License Server Manager on Windows LMTOOLS by Macrovision Corporation http ww_macrovision com Server Status Server Diags Config Services Borowing Figure 9 3 LMTOOLS with Start Stop Reread tab selected 5 Start Myvendor License Manager by clicking the Start Server button Myvendor License Manager license server system starts and writes its debug log output to c flexim Imgrd d1 Automatic Start at System Start Up In order for Imgrd and hence the license server system to start up automatically at system start up time you first must configure it as a license server manager service Follow the procedure in Configuring the License Server Manager as a Windows Service before proceeding and then continue with the steps below 126 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 9 The License Server Manager Starting the License Server Manager on Windows ag Task To configure Imgrd as a license manager service 1 With LMTOOLS started and the desired service name selected click the Config Services tab LMTOOLS by Macrovision Corporation http www_macrovision com DEMO License Manager instal dini86 nINmgrd exe install dini86 nIncou
177. tion Macrovision makes no warranty of any kind with regard to this material including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose Macrovision shall not be liable for errors contained herein or for incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing performance or use of this material June 2006 Contents Introduction to FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide 9 Documentation Conventions 00 0c eee ees 10 Welcome to Macrovision 0 00 00 c cece ee een eee 13 Macrovision Solutions 0 0000 c eee ees 13 Macrovision Professional Services 0 a 14 Technical Support Resources 0 000 cece ees 16 Contacting Macrovision Corporation a 17 1 License File Basi s 22 0ssides 2nd eckeeeserdeeunes ed ee eednns lt 21 Specifying Location of the License File 00 000 cece eee ees 21 Setting the Path with an Environment Variable 1 0 cece eee eee 22 License File Format Overview 0 00 cece eee eee 23 Types of License Files 0200 e eee eee eee 24 Floating Concurrent LicenS S nnan cet eet eens 24 Node Locked Licenses 0 0 ccc eee eee teen eee e nena 25 Mixed Node Locked and Floating Licenses 0 00 cece eee eee ee eens 25 2 Managing Licenses from Multiple Vendors 27 Overview of Multiple License Management Strategies
178. tions File Options File Syntax Task To exclude the user fred from the list of users able to borrow feature f1 assuming the feature has the BORROW attribute EXCLUDE_BORROW f1 USER fred EXCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT This option only applies to licenses held in trusted storage and supplied using activation EXCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT entitlementId type name group_name Excludes a user or pre defined group of users etc from the list of who is allowed to activate the licenses contained in a fulfillment record held in trusted storage EXCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT supersedes INCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT conflicts between the EXCLUDE ENTITLEMENT list and the INCLUDE ENTITLEMENT list are resolved by the EXCLUDE ENTITLEMENT taking precedence Table 5 5 EXCLUDE ENTITLEMENT Terms Description entitlementid The entitlement Id used when requesting a license activation type One of USER HOST GROUP or HOST_GROUP See Specifying License Restrictions Using Type for details name Name of an item of type type for which license usage is excluded group_name Name of the group to exclude Important To exclude the user pete from the list of users able to activate licenses provided in the fulfillment record specified by the entitlement Id AB456 EXCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT AB456 USER pete EXCLUDEALL This option applies to concurrent licenses held in license files and trusted storage FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Docu
179. ver system determines whether or not it can communicate with the other redundant license server systems A group of redundant license server systems is formed when all members of the group can each communicate with all others in that same group FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 8 License File Format License File Syntax Once a group is formed the group guarantees that only one of its license servers can serve licenses at any one time However FLEXnet Licensing must ensure that only one such group will be formed from the total number of redundant license servers To ensure that there is only one group that is formed only the group that contains greater than one half of the redundant license servers allows itself to serve licenses This group of license servers is called the majority License servers that are not part of the majority including single license servers that cannot communicate with any other of its redundant license servers refuse to serve licenses License servers that are not part of the majority continue to run but only so that they can continue their attempt to join the majority or form a majority if no majority yet exists If a license server system ever detects that it is no longer in communication with the majority it refuses to serve licenses until it can If the members of the majority determine that they have lost communication with enough other license servers that t
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181. ween the EXCLUDE BORROW list and the INCLUDE BORROW list are resolved by the EXCLUDE_BORROW taking precedence Table 5 12 INCLUDE_BORROW Terms feature Name of the feature being affected keyword value Feature name modifier to denote a group of licenses See Specifying Features for details type One of USER HOST DISPLAY INTERNET PROJECT GROUP or HOST_GROUP See Specifying License Restrictions Using Type for details name Name of an item of type type for which license borrowing is included group_name Name of the group for which license borrowing is included FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 5 The Options File Options File Syntax To include user tom in the list of users able to borrow feature f1 INCLUDE_BORROW f1 USER tom INCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT This option only applies to licenses held in trusted storage INCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT entitlementId type name group_name Includes a user or predefined group of users in the list of who is allowed to activate the licenses contained in a fulfillment record held in trusted storage EXCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT supersedes INCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT conflicts between the EXCLUDE ENTITLEMENT list and the INCLUDE_ENTITLEMENT list are resolved by the EXCLUDE ENTITLEMENT taking precedence Table 5 13 INCLUDE ENTITLEMENT Terms Definition entitlementid The entitlement Id originally used when requesting a license activation
182. wn licensing for the vendor s product associated with that machine is down Starting the License Server System Ka Task To start the license server system m Invoke the license server manager on each machine Imgrd c server machine n license list 28 FLEXnet Licensing 11 4 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Document revision 01 Chapter 2 Managing Licenses from Multiple Vendors One Machine with Multiple License Server Systems where server machine n license list is a license file list as described in Managing Multiple License Files Each 1mgrd starts the vendor daemon referred to in its license files One Machine with Multiple License Server Systems In this model each vendor daemon and its associated license file or files is served by its own lmgrd process and everything is contained in one server machine Figure 2 2 depicts this scheme Vendor XYZ Vendor DEF Daemon Vendor ABC Daemon License Server System 1 License Server System 2 License Server System 3 Vendor ABC s Vendor DEF s Vendor XYZ s License Files License Files License Files Single License Server Machine Figure 2 2 Multiple Imgrds Multiple License Files When maintaining separate license server systems on the same machine keep in mind m Ifthe TCP IP port number is specified on the SERVER line it must be different for each license server system Use a standard text editor to change the TCP IP port number in each license fi
183. y the UNIX hostname or uname n command On NT 2000 XP ipconfig a11 on Windows 95 98 ME winipcfg a11 return the host name hostid Usually the string returned by the Imhostid command This is changed only by your software supplier port TCP IP port number to use A valid number is any unused port number between O and 64000 On UNIX choose a port 51024 since those lt 1024 are privileged port numbers If no TCP IP port number is specified one of the default ports in the range of 27000 27009 is used SERVER lines specifying servers in a three server redundant license server system configuration require a port number to be specified Macrovision recommends using port numbers outside the range of 27000 27009 PRIMARY_IS_MASTER For a three server redundant configuration indicates how master control is transitioned between the primary and secondary servers If set and the primary server goes down the secondary server becomes the master and transitions control back to the primary server as soon as it comes back up If not set and the primary server goes down the secondary server becomes the master and remains the master even when the primary server comes back up If both primary and secondary go down licenses are no longer served In no instance does the tertiary server become the master This parameter is optional and is placed on the first SERVER line in the license file You must be running a version 10 8 or later vendor da

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