Flexnet License

Overview

You will need a Flexnet license to use the DDC-I installer. You can either use one that can be copied from an internal server, or you can create your own.

Where is an existing license for engineering use?

Use the license file at:

\\ddsbuild\DDCI_integration\all_prods.lic

If you don't have a flexnet server running, set the following environment variable to where you placed the license file:

 DDCIFLEX_LICENSE_FILE=c:\foo\all_prods.lic

How can I generate a license file?

In no uncertain terms, licenses generated by engineers are for internal consumption and never to be given to a customer, not even for an evaluation. Also, not to be given to Honeywell - who is a customer.

Also, licenses must be generated with an expiration date so that, if they despite the above should leak to a customer, they will expire.

Ted is keeping track of license keys and matching those to signed software license agreements and support agreements thus verifying that customers are actually entitled to the license keys.

If you still need to generate a license:

\\nx3000\utils\flexnet\LicenseGenerator_Current\runme.bat

When running this tool, you enable checkboxes for the features that are to be active in the license. Only enable the features you specifically need.

NOTE: License files are plain text, as shown below:

 FEATURE PC_WNT_DEOS_INTEG ddciflex 1.12 30-apr-2009 uncounted \
 HOSTID=DEMO TS_OK SIGN=4BEC2C986B00

Flexnet can detect changes to particular lines in the file, so you cannot just change the "1.12" above to "1.20" with your text editor. But, Flexnet will allow line replacement. You could/should just replace the lines in your old license file with the content from the newly generated license file.

DACS Licenses

The DACS products are also FlexLM based but use an older ddciada deamon and not the ddciflex deamon. Therefore, there is a different license generated used for the DACS products.

Use the license file at:

//ddsbuild/DDCI_integration/dacs_all_demo.dat

Set the following environment variable to where you placed the license file:

 LM_LICENSE_FILE=c:\foo\dacs_all_demo.dat

To generate a demo license for internal use:

• Login to a Windows 7 machine (i.e. opt360dell)
• Map a network drive to: \\nx3000\dacs-pc\customer_support\1.0
• From the network drive double-click customer_support.exe
• Select Product | Generate License
• Specify DDC-I as the customer (rest can be left blank)
• Select DACS-PC for Windows NT and pick the latest version (4.7.16a). Scroll up in the drop-down list.
• Check Demo version.
• Check each of the rows to get all features
• Give an expiration data. If more than 4 months you will get a message to confirm. Click Finish.
• Fill in File name (\\ddsbuild\DDCI_integration\dacs_all_demo.dat for the shared one). Click Save.

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