Each type of license needs to be activated to get a Certificate License File (also called password) which you will install on your machine.<\/p>\n
The Open Inventor licensing mechanism uses the FLEXnet technology, by Flexera.<\/p>\n
Note<\/strong>: the hostID was called the ComputerID in versions of Open Inventor prior to 8.6.<\/p>\n Node-locked licenses are licenses which allow you to use Open Inventor on an identified computer. Designated equipment(s) are identified by a hostID.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n To activate your node-locked license, you need the hostID of your computer.<\/p>\n Note: <\/strong>The ComputerID displayed in the Open Inventor V8.x License Manager (Ladmin) does not match the FlexNet hostID. Do not use this value as hostID. The Ladmin tool is now deprecated.<\/p>\n Once you have the hostID, you need to activate your license to get a Certificate License file (also called password) which you will install on your machine. If you have not activated your license yet, please consult Licensing \u2013 Activate Open Inventor Licenses documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n The provided license file must be copied in the <OIVHOME>\/License\/password.dat or <OIVHOME>\/arch*release\/license\/password.dat directory in order to unlock the product.<\/p>\n Where OIVHOME is the installation path of the Open Inventor package.<\/p>\n Read this section only if you have purchased a floating license for your site where a single license server provides the license key for several users located on other machines of the same network environment. Standalone licenses also called nodelock licenses, application password licenses and temporary licenses are not managed using this mechanism.<\/p>\n FEI uses the FLEXnet licensing option to support floating licenses. In this scenario, a site purchases a specific number, N, of Open Inventor licenses. The FLEXnet license server tracks the licenses being used and allows simultaneous use of up to N instances of the Open Inventor software. The advantage of this approach is that, unlike standard Open Inventor licensing, Open Inventor is not locked to a specific computer, but can be run on any computer that can communicate with the license server.<\/p>\n A small set of FLEXnet-related files are provided for managing the FLEXnet licensing. These files must be copied onto the system to where the license server will be run. The license server can be run on the same system where Open Inventor is installed, but it doesn't have to be.<\/p>\n One of the supplied files, lmgrd<\/em> (\"license manager daemon\"), is a FLEXnet executable that is responsible for starting the vendor daemon, which does the actual checking in and out of licenses specific to that vendor. The supplied vendor daemon, mcslmd<\/em> (\"FEI license manager daemon\"), handles the requests for licenses from the Open Inventor application programs.<\/p>\n There is a FLEXnet license file that is read by the server. This license file contains information indicating which products are licensed and how many licenses are allowed for each.<\/p>\n In addition, each Open Inventor installation has a separate license file which indicates the name of the FLEXnet license server.<\/p>\n The sections below will provide the basic technical details of installing and managing a FLEXnet license server.<\/p>\n For complete technical details regarding FLEXnet itself, please check official Flexera Software documentation, available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The first thing to do is decide on which computer you wish to run the FLEXnet license server. This system should be \"visible\" from any system that might want to request a license. It should also be highly reliable.<\/p>\n The server can be installed on a computer on which Open Inventor is installed, but it does not have to be.<\/p>\n It is possible to do FLEXnet licensing in a heterogeneous environment. That is, the server and Open Inventor can be running on different operating systems. For instance, the FLEXnet server could be on a Linux box, with the Open Inventor users running Open Inventor on a Windows platform.<\/p>\n If your site already has a FLEXnet license server running that is used for licensing other vendors' products, this may affect where and how you decide to configure the Open Inventor license server. See, for example, the chapter \"Managing Licenses from Multiple For the rest of this discussion, we will assume that you will be setting up a license server used only for licensing Open Inventor.<\/p>\n Once you have selected the server machine, if you are not going to run the server from the Open Inventor installation directory (i.e., from <oiv_install_dir>\/<architecture>\/license), you will need to copy the FLEXnet-related files provided by FEI to that system into an empty directory.<\/p>\n Suggested server directory name:<\/p>\n The FLEXnet files are provided in:<\/p>\n On the Open Inventor download pages, FLEXnet files are also available for platforms other than the one on which you will be running Open Inventor.<\/p>\n Open Inventor 9.9.x requires FLEXnet tools 11.14.0.0. Instructions for installing and configuring the server are provided in below.<\/p>\n In order to generate a FLEXnet license, we will need hostID of the system on which the license server is running\/will run<\/p>\n The output will look like<\/p>\n Once you have the hostID, you need to activate your license to get a Certificate License file (also called password) which you will install on your machine. If you have not activated your license yet, please consult Licensing \u2013 Activate Open Inventor Licenses documentation<\/a><\/p>\n At this point, we assume that the FLEXnet files are in their desired location:<\/p>\n The vendor daemon mcslmd<\/em> must be in the same directory as lmgrd<\/em>.<\/p>\n The command to start the server looks like:<\/p>\n where:<\/p>\n Prepending the + character the the log file name causes log entries to be appended.<\/p>\n The following is the suggested command to use:<\/p>\n TIP:<\/strong> It can be convenient to set up the server so that it is started automatically upon system reboot. This would involve editing the system boot script. See the FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide<\/em>, chapter \"The License Server Manager\" for details.<\/p>\n At this point, we assume that the FLEXnet files are in their desired location:<\/p>\n FLEXnet uses a program called lmgrd<\/em> to manage licenses. On Windows, FLEXnet provides a GUI called LMTOOLS<\/em> that allows one to configure lmgrd<\/em> to run as a service. This is the preferred method of configuring FLEXnet and is outlined below.<\/p>\n NOTE:<\/strong> To configure a license server as a service, you must have Administrator privileges<\/u>.<\/p>\n The vendor daemon mcslmd.exe<\/em> must be in the same directory as lmgrd.exe<\/em>.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Getting the hostID<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Setting up a floating license environment<\/h2>\n
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\nSoftware Publishers\" in the FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\noiv_flexnet<\/pre>\n
<oiv_install_dir>\/<architecture>\/license<\/pre>\n
\nOpen Inventor 10.x to 10.2.x requires FLEXnet tools 11.14.0.0.
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lmutil - Copyright (c) 1989-2005 Macrovision Europe Ltd. and\/or Macrovision Corporation. All Rights Reserved.\nThe FLEXlm host ID of this machine is \"001422505387\"<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
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<\/a>Installing the Windows FLEXnet Server<\/h3>\n
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