For floating licenses, the license information section also contains "SERVER" and "DAEMON" lines.
If you obtained your License Pack by e-mail or through the www, you can save the License Pack to a file. The file can be imported directly into Pro/SETUP. This eliminates the task of manually entering your license information. This technique is highly recommended.
If you cannot obtain an on-line copy of your License Pack, your license information will need to be entered into Pro/SETUP manually.
Your license file contains all the license information (multiple feature lines) for all Configuration IDs assigned to a particular CPU. That is, all licenses for all PTC products licensed to a single machine can be defined in a single license file.
Example: A configuration of Pro/ENGINEER, Pro/FLY-THROUGH, and a license of Pro/MECHANICA are all licensed to a single license server. PTC can provide license information for all products on a single License Pack. If an on-line copy of this file is obtained, the single file can be used during the installation of all three products and needs to be imported into Pro/SETUP only once.
When you get your license pack, a generic string will populate the hostname field. If you import the license pack into Pro/SETUP, this field will be replaced with the actual hostname of the server. If you are entering your license information into Pro/SETUP manually, you will need to replace this hostname when your license information is entered.
On your License Pack, the default server line format is:
On your License Pack, the default server line format is:
Feature lines define all the licensing elements (product, modules, number of licenses, and so on) to use the license on the proper host. Since all elements of a license are defined in a feature line, it can be said that feature lines replace the serial number, and security codes (revision codes, option codes, floating license codes, etc.) of PTC’s proprietary licensing scheme.
Feature lines are stored in a "license file" that is used by FLEXlm and PTC software. A single license file can contain multiple feature lines for a single or multiple products.
Feature line formats vary depending on the type of license and its usage. Refer to Appendix B for examples of feature lines per license type.
The following example shows a feature line for five locked evaluation licenses of Release 20.0 Pro/ENGINEER license for cpu_id 08-00-4E-22-AB-08. Note that the feature line contains all licensing information for the license and replaces the serial number and associated security codes.
LO=(0 2 4 6 7 9 10 17 19 21 22)"\
HOSTID="PTC_HOSTID=08-00-4E-22-AB-08 \
PTC_HOSTID=08-00-4E-22-AB-09 \
PTC_HOSTID=08-00-4E-22-AB-10 \
PTC_HOSTID=08-00-4E-22-AB-11 \
PTC_HOSTID=08-00-4E-22-AB-12" \
SUPERSEDE ISSUED=01-Feb-1998
The figure below shows an example of five floating evaluation licenses of Pro/ENGINEER Release 20.0. For licenses that use a FLEXlm server (floating licenses, floating options, and counted locked licenses) the CPUID is specified in the SERVER line, not the feature line.
INCREMENT PROE_366 ptc_d 20.0 11-Jul-1998 5 85739247224342 \
VENDOR_STRING="VSVER=1.0 LO=(0 2 4 6 7 9 10 17 19 21 22)"\
SUPERSEDE ISSUED=01-Feb-1998
Feature Line Comments
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# Feature Name = PROE_266 Type = evaluation
# Release = 20.0
# Number of Licenses = 5
# License Code = 85739247224342
# Issued Date = 01-Feb-98
# Cpu_id = 08004E22AB08
LO=(0 2 4 6 7 9 10 17 19 21 22)"\
For floating installations, the license file contains:
- SERVER line containing the server name, cpu_id, and TCP/IP port
- DAEMON line containing the path to the ptc_d executable
- Feature information (your licenses)
For triad installations, an identical license file will be used by each triad partner. The license file will contain three SERVER lines, feature lines for all products licensed to the triad, and any additional products licensed to any single partner.