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You can upgrade a particular exclusive license as many times as necessary, as long asCOUNT is within its range. It will sum up all of the license upgrades, allowing for a different expiration date for each upgrade.There are restrictions on applying an upgrade license to an exclusive license. The upgrade license's expiration dates must be within the exclusive license's expiration dates. In addition, neither the upgrade nor exclusive license can be
unlimited.An upgrade license can be locked to the license serverHostIDs to prevent using the same upgrade license on more than one machine. Duplicated instances of an upgrade license within one license server will be discarded.
Upgrade licenses have the following limitations:
- The upgrade license's expiration dates must be within the exclusive license's expiration dates.
- Neither the upgrade nor exclusive license can beunlimited.
- ClientHostIDs are not supported for upgrade licenses, andLMX_GetLicenseInfo will not report upgrade licenses in network or local paths. These limitations exist because the upgrade licenses are designed to be transparent to the client. However, exclusive licenses report their upgraded license count in bothLMX_GetFeatureInfo and LMX_GetLicenseInfo.
License template
To maintain maximum compatibility with the corresponding exclusive license, the settings allowed in the upgrade license template are limited. All of the settings behave the same as for exclusive licenses, except thatSHARE is limited toVIRTUAL only.
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