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The HostIDs tab in the Template dialog lets you specify the HostID(s) that will be used to lock the license, such as Ethernet, Hostname, IP Address, etc. When HostID locking is used, the proper HostID information must be supplied in order to activate the license.

Note the following HostID-specific considerations:

  • LAC does not support HostID values that contain blank spaces.
  • The values you enter as HostID(s) are case-insensitive (for example, "User" and "USER" are interpreted as the same entries).
  • The maximum length of a HostID value is 255 characters.
  • Supported characters include: 
    • upper- and lowercase letters A - Z
    • numbers 0 - 9
    • _ (underscore)
    • . (period)
    • * (asterisk)
    • : (colon)
    • \ (backslash)
    • - (hyphen)
    • @ (at) for Username HostID type only

The toggles at the top of the HostIDs tab let you choose whether to use HostID locking.

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The available HostID types depend on which types are supported by the license generator being used, as shown in the following table.

License Manager

HostID Types

LM-X License Manager

Bios, Custom, Dongle HASP HL, Ethernet, Hard Disk, Hostname, IP Address, Long, Not Locked, Username, Windows Product ID, AWS Instance ID, GCE Instance ID, Azure Instance ID

FlexNet Publisher

Any, Hostname, Internet, User, FlexID, Ethernet, Disk Serial Num, Display

Reprise License Manager

Any, Host, IP Address, User, RLM ID1, RLM ID2, Ethernet, Serial Number, Long

For more information about the availability of specific HostID types on different platforms, see HostID values.

LM-X License Manager lets you use multiple HostID types and lets you specify how many of each are required, as described below. For other license managers, you can select only one HostID type.

Specifying HostID locking when using an LM-X license generator

When using LM-X as the license generator, you can select one or more HostID types to lock the license to. You also specify the minimum and maximum number of each HostID type, the overall percentage of HostIDs that must match, and the overall number of HostIDs required, as described in the following sections..

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For each HostID type selected, set the Minimum Required (0 to 16; defaults to 1) and the Maximum Allowed (1 to 16; defaults to 1). For example, if you require the IP Address, and additionally require one more HostID that can be the Username, Hostname, or IP Address, your settings would be:

HostID Type

Min Required

Max Allowed

Ethernet

0

1

Username

0

1

Hostname

0

1

IP Address

1

1

Specifying Match Rate Percentage required for activation

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For more information about using HostIDs with LM-X, see Determining which HostID to use. For more information about LM-X HostID match rate, see the see HOSTID_MATCH_RATE section of the LM-X Developer's Manual, and the Knowledgebase article, "How to use HostID matching."

Specifying HostID locking for 3rd-party license generators

For license generators other than LM-X (FlexNet and Reprise), you specify whether to use HostID locking in a similar manner as described above for an LM-X license generator, by toggling the locking option on or off in the HostIDs tab.

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