User guide

Chapter 3 - Managing Licenses from Multiple Vendors
Additional Considerations
36 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide
• 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 3-4 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.
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 compatible 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 3-5 shows an example of combining license files.
SERVER alpha 17007ea8
VENDOR ABC
INCREMENT f1 ABC...
INCREMENT f2 ABC...
SERVER alpha 17007ea8
VENDOR DEF
INCREMENT f3 DEF...
INCREMENT f4 DEF...
SERVER alpha 17007ea8
VENDOR XYZ
INCREMENT f5 XYZ...
INCREMENT f6 XYZ...
SERVER alpha 17007ea8
VENDOR ABC
VENDOR DEF
VENDOR XYZ
INCREMENT f1 ABC...
INCREMENT f2 ABC...
INCREMENT f3 DEF...
INCREMENT f4 DEF...
INCREMENT f5 XYZ...
INCREMENT f6 XYZ...
SERVER tao 13004dfa
VENDOR GHI
INCREMENT f5 GHI...
INCREMENT f6 GHI...
This license file cannot be combined
with the ones above because
its server is different.
Combined License File
Vendor ABC’s License File
Vendor DEF’s License File
Vendor XYZ’s License FIle
Vendor GHI’s License File
SERVER alpha INTERNET=10.10.10.*
VENDOR JKL
INCREMENT f5 GHI...
INCREMENT f6 GHI...
This license file cannot be combined
with the ones above for
the host id is a different type even
Vendor JKL’s License File
though the server name is the same.
server “alpha” because