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Appendix B - License File Format
License File Syntax
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FEATURE/INCREMENT Lines
A FEATURE line describes the license required to use a product. 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:
• feature name
•version
• DUP_GROUP
• FLOAT_OK
• HOST_BASED
• HOSTID
• PLATFORM
• USER_BASED
• VENDOR_STRING (if configured by the vendor as a pooling component)
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 B-1 presents these fields
in the order they must appear.
Table B-1: 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.