Cosmic
Software Floating license Management
Floating licenses provide the most flexibility for multiple users and projects or when user's need access to the software from more than one computer on the network. This type of license allows Cosmic Software to be installed on any number of computers, but limits concurrent usage to the number of licenses purchased. Floating licenses use a license server to manage Cosmic licenses. A license server is a computer running the Macrovision FLEXlm license manager software. It may be any computer on the same network as the computers that will run Cosmic software. There are two license file options for floating licenses.
1) Dongle Based Floating Licenses – This type of license file uses a USB Dongle (FLEXid) attached to the license server computer to create the license file. The user can move the license server at any time by installing the dongle drivers and license manager software on another computer and moving the USB dongle to the new computer. (Windows and Linux only)
2) Hostid floating license – This type of license file uses the License server's Hostid (MAC address) to create the license file. To obtain a Hostid floating license file
from Cosmic, you will need to determine
and send the server name and Hostid
of the license server computer.
You can serve Cosmic licenses from
one license server or a redundant
set of three servers. A redundant
set will require the submission of
three hostids to create this special
type of license. See the FLEXlm
End User's Guide for more information
on redundant servers.
Windows
License Server
For license servers
running Windows, the server name
and Hostid information can be obtained
by downloading and running the lmreg
utility lmreg
utility (winzipped) on the license server computer(s).
This will bring up a window containing
the appropriate information. You
can copy and paste this information
into an email to send to Cosmic.
The lmreg utility is also located
on every Windows product CD.
UNIX
License Server
For license servers
running a UNIX operating system,
the server Hostid information can
be obtained by downloading and running
the appropriate FLEXlm utility "lmutil" which
is contained in the "Cosmic
Daemon and Utilities" archive
for each host. Use the following
command line and lmutil will return
the hostid.
See the appropriate
readme text file below for the computer
and operating system that will host
the license
manager (server).
The license manager
may be installed on a different host
operating system than the Cosmic
Software development tools so long
as the client and server are properly
networked together. In addition,
a single license server may serve
licenses for multiple clients running
different host operating systems.
You can download the latest version of the FLEXlm License manager software (lmgrd) and "lmutil" utilities from the Macrovision site. These programs can be used with any application that is licensed by FLEXlm so long as the lmgrd version is greater than the vendor daemon version. Macrovision recommends that you use the latest version of lmgrd at all times as it includes bug fixes, enhancements, and assures the greatest level of compatibility with all of your licensed applications.
Hostid registration is not required when using FLEXid dongles or floating licenses. See the General License Info page and FLEXlm End User's Guide for more information.
Please contact your local Cosmic support office should you have any questions or problems.
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FLEXlm is a registered trademark of Macrovision Corporation (NASDAQ:MVSN).
All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
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