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FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide 151
Appendix IFLEXnet Licensing Versions I
Version Compatibility with FLEXnet Licensing Components
In general, always use the latest lmgrd and lmutil/LMTOOLS, which are available from
www.macrovision.com, and you’ll 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:
Version of
lmutil/LMTOOLS must be >=
Version of
lmgrd, which must be >=
Version of vendor daemon, which must be >=
Version of the client library linked to the FLEXenabled application, which must be >=
Version of license file format
Except for the license file, use
lmver to discover the version of all these FLEXnet Licensing
components. For the vendor daemon,
lmgrd, and lmutil, you can also use the -v argument
to print the version.
How to Tell the License File Version
The following rules apply to individual FEATURE, INCREMENT or UPGRADE lines. It’s
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.
Version 2 Blank quotes or a quoted string at the end of the FEATURE line.
>= Version 3 INCREMENT or UPGRADE line.
>= Version 4 OVERDRAFT, DUP_GROUP, INTERNET, or PACKAGE
appear.