Special Host ID Types

Special FlexNet Licensing 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 Licensing 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 Portal 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: In some cases, a software publisher may opt to disable some aspects of IP address validation. If so, follow the IP address guidelines provided by that publisher.

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 Portal 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: In some cases, a software publisher may opt to disable some aspects of IP address validation. If so, follow the IP address guidelines provided by that publisher.

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.

A composite host ID combines multiple FlexNet Licensing host IDs together to provide a more secure host ID. For instance, you can use USER and Disk SN to identify a host id. A composite host ID is a hashed 12-character hexadecimal value formed by combining the values of multiple simple host IDs types.

If you select the Composite format, you must have a program to calculate the Composite host ID for the host machine. If you have any questions about this, see the software publisher. Enter as COMPOSITE=comp_id in the Activate Licenses page.

Virtualization-aware host ID prefixes define server host ID types that permit or restrict the kind of virtual environments, if any, on which a license server can run. These host ID types begin with PHY_, VM_, VMW_, HPV_, or LMB_.

Note: VMW_HOSTNAME, HPV_HOSTNAME, and LMB_HOSTNAME host IDs cannot contain wildcards (asterisks).

Note: When used with three-server redundancy, virtualization-aware host ID types for all servers in the triad must use the same prefix: PHY_, VW_, VMW_, HPV_, or LMB_.