Driver Installation Guide for FlexNet ID Dongles
A FlexNet ID dongle is a hardware device which locks FlexNet license rights to the machine to which the dongle is attached. Each FlexNet ID dongle contains a unique identity. This identity is used to provide a hostid. (This hostid type is referred as a FLEXID.) The FLEXID can be used to lock license rights to either a server or an end-user machine.
FlexNet dongles are normally used with license rights that are held in license files, and this document assumes that this is the case in all examples.
For the FlexNet dongle to communicate with the computer it is attached to, the appropriate drivers must be installed on the computer. Drivers are specific to a given platform and operating-system version. Therefore, you might need to download and provide updated drivers for existing products when new operating-system versions are released. The latest drivers are packaged with the current release version of the FlexNet Publisher Licensing Toolkit and are also available from specific download Revenera sites.
You must always install the drivers for the FlexNet ID dongles using the files provided by Revenera. Do not install drivers from any other source (for example, from an automatic search and download). This document contains the following chapters:
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Lists the FlexNet ID dongles, the platforms on which they can be used, the hostid keywords, and the name of the driver installation files. |
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Describes how to install or uninstall dongle drivers on Windows. |
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Describes how to install or uninstall dongle drivers on macOS. |
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Describes how to install or uninstall dongle drivers on Linux |
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Describes how to test that the dongle driver has been installed correctly. |
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Addresses common questions and helps users troubleshoot FLEXID9 dongle-related issues that might arise during upgrade of FlexNet Publisher Version 11.12 release on Windows platforms |