Obtaining a Network License File

This page provides instructions on how to obtain a license file for a network server

Overview

The network license server requires a license file. The file locks the server to one machine and we require information about that machine in order to provide you with a license file.

Usually the server is locked to the ethernet address (aka MAC address, aka physical address) of the network adapter. This page describes how to obtain that address using utilities that we supply. Please do not use system utilities such as ifconfig or ipconfig to do this. These utilities often return many addresses especially if there are multiple network adapters installed. The utilities we supply will only report addresses that the license server will actually see.

Instructions for Windows

For Windows systems follow this procedure. For Linux see below.

  1. If you have a CD, run the program at cdrom\Flexlm\windows\lmtools.exe . If you don't have the CD,
    you can download it from lmtools.exe.
  2. Select the 'System Settings' tab. This is what you should see:

  3. We need to know the 'Computer/Hostname' and the 'Ethernet Address'. In the above example, these values are 'duke' and 000d61117a66 respectively. It is possible that there are several addresses listed under 'Ethernet Address'. If so please note all of them. Email this information to support@simetrix.co.uk to apply for a license file. You will usually receive it within 24 hours.


Instructions for Linux

  1. If you have the CD, extract the files in the tar ball cdrom/Linux/flexlm.tar . The file we need is 'lmutil'. If you don't have the CD you will find the file in flexlm.tar.gz . You have probably already downloaded this file. Download it now if you have not - it has all the files you need for the license server.
  2. Run:

    ./lmutil hostid

    You should see a response similar to:

    lmutil - Copyright (c) 1989-2004 by Macrovision Corporation. All rights reserved.
    The FLEXlm host ID of this machine is "000d6146c3a2"

    Email the value or values reported ("000d6146c3a2" in the above example) to support@simetrix.co.uk to apply for a license file. You will usually receive it within 24 hours.