If your site already has a FLEXnet license server running that is used for licensing other vendors' products, this may affect where and how you decide to configure the Open Inventor license server. For the rest of this discussion, we will assume that you will be setting up a license server used only for licensing Open Inventor. Once you have selected the server machine, if you are not going to run the server from the Open Inventor installation directory i. Open Inventor 9. Open Inventor Once you have the hostID and host name, go to our online password delivery center and fill in your details, Open Inventor and extensions license numbers, along with your hostID and host name.
TIP: It can be convenient to set up the server so that it is started automatically upon system reboot. This would involve editing the system boot script. FLEXnet uses a program called lmgrd to manage licenses. This is the preferred method of configuring FLEXnet and is outlined below. NOTE: Any time you make a change to the server configuration, you should stop the server then restart it in order for the changes to take effect.
If the first time you press it, the operation fails, wait briefly a minute or less , and try pressing it again. Once this variable is set, Open Inventor automatically looks for the license file in the specified location.
If Open Inventor cannot find the license file, the user is presented with a dialog that asks for the license information. To use a FLEXnet floating license on a system that is not always connected to the license server, you will need to "borrow" a license while you are connected to the server, then disconnect from the server.
This kind of licensing is what we call "nomad" licensing. Below are the detailed instructions. We will assume that standard FLEXnet licensing, i. To print information about borrowed features, issue the following command on the machine from which they are borrowed:. Click on the Borrowing tab.
Specify a return date. Optional, specify the vendor name mcslmd. Press the Set Borrow Expiration button. Start your Open Inventor Application, then use all of the extensions that you want to borrow. Disconnect from the network. Exit your Open Inventor Application and confirm that you can restart it and use all of the borrowed modules.
Refer to the FLEXnet documentation. Finally if you need assistance getting your FLEXnet licenses installed and operational, please contact the technical support. Skip to content.
Setting up a node-locked license Node-locked licenses are licenses which allow you to use Open Inventor on an identified computer.
Requesting your license key Once you have the hostID, go to our online password delivery center and fill in your details, Open Inventor and extensions license numbers, along with your hostID.
Installing the license key You will receive the license keys by email as well as the installation instructions. Ideally you need something that is OS independent.
Your app. Don't forget to encrypt the license file. Improve this answer. It also links to other related questions. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. I like the hasp keys - have used them in the past - but I would say not very good for BIG applications And by the by, these are also quite hackable, I've done it with not very much effort.
BTWm, hwhash. Then how about a periodic online check of the licence? John Judd John Judd 7 7 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. The most annoying kind of software are the one needing internet ONLY for the license. If you happen to be offline at some points and there is a check. It will be horribly annoying if you can't it anymore. You'll notice I did say there should be some thought given to how to avoid that situation. AviD AviD I would point out that this all applies to installed software.
Online services obviously not your intent can enforce better limitations. In the most part a simple copy protection will go a long way to keeping honest people honest and can make quite a dent in casual copying. For example, large companies often make HD images with licensed software on and then failed to buy more licences each time the image was used. It wasn't that they wanted to pirate the software, just kind of did it accidentally.
This kind of thing is quite easy to stop and you can make a substantial reduction in it. Martin, I agree - but I dont consider "casual copying" to be the dangerous kind of piracy that is usually being blocked This is what I was saying about the good guys - you're right, licensing should be intended to keep the honest people honest, but it wont help much against the really bad guys. SmacL SmacL The Overflow Blog. Stack Gives Back Safety in numbers: crowdsourcing data on nefarious IP addresses.
Featured on Meta. A fee or royalty is charged by the licensor to the licensee for the use of intellectual property right. For example : Under licensing system, Coca-Cola and Pepsi are globally produced and sold, by local bottlers in different countries.
In finer terms, it is the simplest form of business alliance, wherein a company rents out its product based knowledge in exchange for entry to the market. The overseas company enters into a licensing agreement with another company based in the domestic country, for a specified period of time. The two primary reasons for entering in the licensing agreement are:.
It helps the licensee to differentiate the product from other products offered by the competitors in the market.
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