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Appendix B - License File Format
License File Syntax
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See Also
• Chapter 5, “The Options File,” for further information regarding options file contents.
FLEXNET LICENSING VERSION NOTES
• vendor_daemon_path required in pre-v6.0 vendor daemon.
• options_file_path required in pre-v6.0 vendor daemon.
• VENDOR lines are known as DAEMON lines in the pre-v6.0
lmgrd and vendor daemon.
v6.0+:
VENDOR sampled
pre-v6.0:
DAEMON sampled /etc/sampled \
/etc/sampled/licenses/sampled.opt
•The options= keyword introduced in the v5.0 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 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