Special Host ID Types

Special FlexNet Publisher Licensing Toolkit host ID ANY. Allows the license to run on any machine.

Ethernet address and also called MAC address. This is the hardware address from the Network Interface Card (NIC). This value consists of 12 hexadecimal digits (a 48-bit number).

User name: Enter as USER=user_name in the Activate Licenses page. The FlexNet C/C++ Licensing toolkit uses the login name. FlexNet Publisher Licensing Toolkit for Java uses the username environment variable.

On Unix, this is the X display name. On Windows, it is the display adapter. Display name: Enter as DISPLAY=display_name in the Activate Licenses page.

This setting allows you to define the host ID as a routable, public IP address with a wildcard (*) as one or more octets. Use the format, INTERNET=w.x.y.z, where each letter represents an octet with a decimal value between 0 and 255.

FlexNet Operations validates that the address is not among the private, non-routable sets. The routable address cannot be an address in the primary three reserved, private network address ranges: 10.0.0.0-10.255.255.255, 172.16.0.0-172.31.255.255, and 192.168.0.0-192.168.255.255. In addition, the address cannot be 127.0.0.1 (localhost).

The wildcard rules for routable IP addresses also apply. For an IP address of w.x.y.z

Note: FlexNet Operations’s IP address validation can be disabled by unchecking Enable Basic IP Address Host ID Validation in the system configuration settings. (See Configuring FlexNet Operations .)

This setting allows you to define the host ID as a non-routable, private IP address with a wildcard (*) as one or more octets. Use the format, INTERNET=w.x.y.z, where each letter represents an octet with a decimal value between 0 and 255.

FlexNet Operations validates that the address is among the permitted, non-routable sets. The address you specify must be an address within the primary three reserved, private network address ranges: 10.0.0.0-10.255.255.255, 172.16.0.0-172.31.255.255, and 192.168.0.0-192.168.255.255.

The wildcard rules for non-routable IP addresses also apply. For an IP address of w.x.y.z

Note: FlexNet Operations’s IP address validation can be disabled by unchecking Enable Basic IP Address Host ID Validation in the system configuration settings. (See Configuring FlexNet Operations .)

This is for Windows, Mac, Linux only. Locks the software to a PC with a hardware dongle (hardware key) with serial number id_string. The format of this identifier depends on the brand of dongle used.

Enter as FLEXID=id_string in the Activate Licenses page.

The user needs to pick the VENDOR_DEFINED item from the drop-down and then enter the vendor-defined host as <name>=<string>

Note: If you specify a vendor-defined host ID, you must build your VCG to support your vendor-defined host ID type.

Note: You can use a completely new entity to validate the host. The host ID for this entity is defined in Operations as <name> = <string>, where <name> is the entity name you want to use. You must define a list of allowable name values in the VCG. You must also create the code in the application or vendor daemon that obtains the string value.