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To activate the MARIN software product using the FlexNET licensing service a floating license on a license server you need to:

• chose a Windows server to run the license server software on;
• request a certificate-based license file for the specific hardware of the license server.your product to run on that server;
• install the FlexNET publisher Publisher license server manager, including the MARIN specific license daemon. , on your license server;
• import the license for your product with the license server manager.

First , you need to chose a Windows server to run the license server software on. We tested the license server manager on Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard and Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard.

Then you need to request a license file. request a certificate-based license. To use certificate-based licensing only a license file is needed.   This license is fixed to a hardware specific hardware ID of your server. To provide this hardware ID you need to Retrieving retrieve the host ID. Return the hostid.txt, the MARIN product name and version for which you need a license together with your request to: support@marin.nl

To use certificate-based floating licenses a license manager is required. This license manager comes in two parts; the FLEXnet publisher license server and the MARIN license daemon. The MARIN license daemon requires the FLEXnet publisher license server 11.9 or higher. 

For installing and using the FlexNET Licensing service license server see: Installing the license server .

After successfully installing the FlexNET licensing service the installing the FlexNET license server and importing the license file licenses are available to ‘float’ around the network.

If you received your MARIN software product on a DVD the FlexNET licensing service license server manager setup is included on the DVD.

To be able to use the floating license for the product on the PC's in the network you need to set the (optional) portnumber and the name of the FlexNET licensing service. Replace "HostnameOfYourLicenseServer" by the hostname of your license server.

Examples for finding the floating licenses:

set MARINLMD_LICENSE_FILE=27045@server27045@HostnameOfYourLicenseServer
or
set MARINLMD_LICENSE_FILE=@server@HostnameOfYourLicenseServer

Sequence for finding a license file

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