FEATURE and INCREMENT Lines

FEATURE and INCREMENT lines describe the license model for a product. Only the first FEATURE line for a given feature name is processed by the vendor daemon. If you want to have additional copies of the same feature (for example, to have multiple node-locked, counted features), then you must use multiple INCREMENT lines. INCREMENT lines form license groups, or pools, based on the following fields:

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feature name

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version

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BORROW

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DUP_GROUP

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FLOAT_OK

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HOST_BASED

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HOSTID

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PLATFORM

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TZ

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USER_BASED

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VENDOR_STRING (if configured by the publisher as a pooling component)

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VM_PLATFORMS

If two lines differ by any of these fields, a new group of licenses, called a license pool, is created in the vendor daemon, and this group is counted independently from other license pools with the same feature name. A FEATURE line does not give an additional number of licenses, whereas an INCREMENT line always gives an additional number of licenses.

The basic feature definition line format is:

{FEATURE|INCREMENT} feature vendor feat_version exp_date num_lic [optional_attributes] SIGN="<...>"