Obtaining System Hostids

The lmhostid utility prints the exact hostid that FlexNet Publisher requires on any given system. If your hostid contains characters other than the ASCII A through Z, a through z, or 0 through 9, use the -utf8 option with lmhostid. To view a correct representation of the resulting hostid, use a utility, such as Notepad, that can display UTF-8 encoded strings.

lmadmin displays hostids available for the license server on the System Information tab.

Because lmadmin is available only as a 32-bit process, the 32-bit FlexNet Licensing Service must be installed to display TPM details in lmadmin's System Information tab. The 32-bit FlexNet Licensing Service is available from the i86_n3 kit. The TPM hostid is currently supported on Windows platforms only.

Note:For the following cases, do not use the System Information tab in the lmadmin user interface to obtain hostids. Instead, use the methods described in the Hostid Procurement Methods table.

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When the license server is operating on a virtual machine but bound to the physical hardware—A limitation in lmadmin causes the System Information tab to show virtual machine values for Host Name, Host Domain Name, IPv4 Address, IPv6 Address, Ethernet Address, and Volume Serial Number rather than the physical machine values.

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When running license clients or a license server in an Amazon EC2 environment—At this time, the System Information page is unable to show hostids specific to the Amazon EC2 environment.

The following table lists some sample lmhostid and alternate methods to obtain the required hostid for each system architecture. FlexNet Publisher also supports a group of special hostids and vendor-defined hostids.

Hostid Procurement Methods

Hardware Platform

Hostid

Type this command

Example hostid

AIX (RS/6000, PPC)

32-bit hostid

lmhostid

As best practice it is recommended to use lmhostid and that most of the time, the uname rule applies.

uname -m

For example, returns 000276513100. Remove last two digits and use remaining last eight digits.

02765131

HP-UX (64-bit Itanium)

machine identification

lmhostid

getconf CS_PARTITION_IDENT Prefix returned value with "ID_STRING="

ID_STRING=9c766319-db72-d411-af62-0060b05e4c05

OS X

Ethernet address

lmhostid -ether

000A277EA17E

Note:This command lists the available in built Ethernet addresses, active or inactive. It does not currently list Ethernet addresses from removable devices such as USB Ethernet adapters.

/sbin/ifconfig enx

where enx is the Ethernet interface name (with x a value from 0 to 9); remove colons from returned value.

000A277EA17E

FlexNet ID USB port dongle

lmhostid -flexid

lmhostid -flexid -long

FLEXID=9-b28520b9

Linux

Ethernet address

lmhostid -ether

00400516E525

Note:This command lists all available Ethernet addresses (active or inactive), including those for team-bonding virtual adaptors.

/sbin/ifconfig <ethernet_name>

where <ethernet_name> is one of these Ethernet interface names:

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ethx

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Other name type (for example, p3p4)

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bond0 (for a team-bonding virtual adaptor)

Remove colons from returned HWaddr.

00400516E525

FlexNet ID USB port dongle

lmhostid -flexid

lmhostid -flexid -long

FLEXID=9-b28520b9

Note:The commands lmhostid -flexid is to fetch the dongle id and lmhostid -flexid -long command is used to get the error or log information along with the dongle id.

UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) for virtual machines

lmhostid -ptype VM -uuid

Supported for Xen, VMware, Oracle VirtualBox or Hyper-V (recommended), Parallels, QEMU-KVM, Google Compute, Microsoft Azure, and Nutanix.

VM_UUID=DF440538-8EB7-11DC-BBDA-FE7FE89E000F

Note:Obtaining this hostid requires that the FlexNet Licensing Service be installed. To do this, certificate-only customers need to ensure “install_fnp.sh --cert” is run from the publisher directory with root-privilege at install time.

AMZN_EIP in Amazon EC2 environment

lmhostid -ptype AMZN -eip

AMZN_EIP=184.72.45.35

Note:Obtaining this hostid requires that the FlexNet Licensing Service be installed.

AMZN_AMI in Amazon EC2 environment

lmhostid -ptype AMZN -ami

AMZN_AMI=ami-6a807503

Note:Obtaining this hostid requires that the FlexNet Licensing Service be installed.

VM_UUID in Amazon EC2 environment

lmhostid -ptype VM -uuid

VM_UUID=i-7d409db1

(Server only)

Note:Obtaining this hostid requires that the FlexNet Licensing Service be installed.

Sun

32-bit hostid

lmhostid

hostid

170a3472

Ethernet address

lmhostid -ether

00400516E525

Windows

Ethernet address

lmhostid

00B0A9DF9A32

Note:This command lists all available Ethernet addresses (active or inactive), including those for team-bonding virtual adaptors.

Disk serial number

lmhostid -vsn

DISK_SERIAL_NUM=
3e2e17fd

FlexNet ID parallel or USB port dongle

lmhostid -flexid

lmhostid -flexid -long

FLEXID=9-b28520b9

Note:For parallel port dongles, the parallel port must be configured in bi-directional mode. The commands lmhostid ‑flexid is to fetch the dongle id and lmhostid -flexid -long command is used to get the error or log information along with the dongle id.

VM_UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) for virtual machines

lmhostid -ptype VM -uuid

where <virtual machine type> is one of these:

Supported for Xen, VMware, Oracle VirtualBox or Hyper-V (recommended), Parallels, QEMU-KVM, Google Compute, Microsoft Azure, and Nutanix.

VM_UUID=DF440538-8EB7-11DC-BBDA-FE7FE89E000F

(Server only)

Note:Obtaining this hostid requires that the FlexNet Licensing Service be installed.

AMZN_EIP in Amazon EC2 environment

lmhostid -ptype AMZN -eip

AMZN_EIP=184.72.45.35

Note:Obtaining this hostid requires that the FlexNet Licensing Service be installed.

AMZN_AMI in Amazon EC2 environment

lmhostid -ptype AMZN -ami

AMZN_AMI=ami-6a807503

Note:Obtaining this hostid requires that the FlexNet Licensing Service be installed.

TPM (Trusted Platform Module)

lmhostid -tpm_id1

TPM_ID1=MKG5S-LU9TR-4LT7M-NICDK

Note:Obtaining this hostid requires that the FlexNet Licensing Service be installed.