User guide

Chapter 7 - License Administration Tools

lminstall

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The output of this command looks as follows:

The FLEXlm hostid of this machine is "69021c89"

See Also

• Appendix A, “Hostids for FLEXnet Licensing-Supported Platforms.”

lminstall

Introduced in v6.0, lminstall is designed primarily for typing in decimal format licenses to

generate a readable format license file.

Usage is:

lminstall [-i in_lic_file ] [-maxlen n] [-e err_file] [-o out_lic_file] \

[-overfmt {2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5.1 | 6 | 7 | 7.1 | 8}] [-odecimal]

Normally, to convert from decimal to readable format, lminstall is used with no arguments;

you are prompted for the name of the output license file. The default file name is today’s date

yyyymmdd.lic 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 *.lic files

are located.

To finish entering, type

q on a line by itself or enter two blank lines.

Platform Independent Hostids

-user

Current user name.

-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.

-hostname

Current host name.

-internet

IP address of current platform in the form

###.###.###.###.

-utf8

The hostid is output as a UTF-8 encoded string rather than an ASCII

string. If your hostid contains characters other than ASCII A through Z, a

through z, or 0 through 9, use this option with lmhostid. To view a correct

representation of the resulting hostid, use a utility, such as Notepad, that can

display UTF-8 encoded strings.