Criteria for Combining License Files
Your product’s license files define the license server systems by host name and hostid in the SERVER lines in the license file. License files are candidates for combining under the following conditions:
| • | The number of SERVER lines in each file is the same. |
| • | The hostid field of each SERVER line in one file exactly matches the hostid field of each SERVER line in the other file. |
Some possible reasons license files may not be compatible are:
| • | License files are set up to run on different server systems, so hostids are different. |
| • | One file is set up for a single license server (has only one SERVER line), the other is set up for a three-server redundancy (has three SERVER lines). |
| • | Hostids for the same system 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 {Hyperlink}Figure {Default ¹ Font} 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.