Special Hostids
FlexNet Publisher contains a number of special hostid types that apply to all platforms. These hostid types are valid to use in both SERVER lines and FEATURE lines, wherever a hostid is required.
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Locks the software to any system (meaning that it does not lock anything). |
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Similar to ANY, but only for use with uncounted FEATURE lines. |
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Locks the software to a composite hostid. The composite hostid can be made up of any number of the simple hostids supported by FNP. These are aggregated together and the resultant buffer hashed down to a 12-byte hexidecimal value. The process is one-way hashing, hence makes it impossible to reverse the constituent input simple hostids. Note that composite hostids are not returned by lmhostid, LMTOOLS, or lmadmin: when composite hostids are used, the software publisher will provide a utility that determines the publisher’s composite hostid. On some systems multiple composite hostids may be provided, any of which may be used to identify the system that the software is locked to. |
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Locks the software to a display. On UNIX, <display> is /dev/ttyxx (which is always /dev/tty when an application is run in the background) or the X-Display name. On Windows, it is the system name or, in the case of a terminal server environment, the terminal server client name (version 8 or later FlexEnabled applications only) |
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Locks the software to computer host name <host>. |
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Functionally equivalent to the ANY hostid—it runs on any system. The difference is that the license is unique and is used to identify the end user. This hostid is used to lock the license server (on the SERVER line) or the FlexEnabled application (on the feature definition line). The number can have dashes included for readability—the dashes are ignored. Examples:
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Locks the software to an Internet IP address, or group of IP addresses. Wildcards are allowed. For example, 198.156.*.* means any host with a matching INTERNET IP address. The main use is to limit usage access by subnet, implying geographic area. For this purpose, it is used on the feature definition line as a hostid lock. For more information about obtaining this hostid, see the -internet option for lmhostid. Note:(Windows only) If a Windows machine is connected to a VPN, lmhostid -internet returns the virtual adapter IP address. To ensure that this command returns the physical adaptor IP address during checkouts, the user needs to perform this workaround: Run regedit, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Tcpip\Linkage, locate the Bind parameter, and edit the adapter order so that the physical adapter is listed first. Run ipconfig/registerdns to put the edit into effect. |
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Locks the software to user name <user>. User names specified in license files cannot contain spaces. |
Examples
FEATURE f1 demo 1.0 31-dec-2020 uncounted \
HOSTID=FLEXID=9-a6300015f SIGN=”<...>”
or
FEATURE f1 demo 1.0 31-dec-2020 uncounted \
HOSTID=INTERNET=10.10.10.* SIGN=”<...>”