plc.myforum.ro

rott · Senior Joined: 23 Aug 2011 Posts: 2266

What is FLEXnet Licensing Service?

Runs in Services on Windows XP.
The description says: This service performs licensing function on behalf of FLEXnet enabled products.
To make sure that the person(s) who are using their application has paid a license for it, some software companies use various services/products that let the application check whether or not the user running the application has paid for it.
FLEXnet Licensing Service is one of these.

This service can work in numeroase ways, but it's usually one of these:

When buying a license from the software company, the user recieves a USB-dongle which includes an encrypted key.
The user install the application from the software company along with a license client, or manager.
The USB-dongle with the key must be inserted in the computer at all times if the application is to be used. When launching the application, the application does a call to the license manager and ask it if there is a valid license for this application. Depending on the response it allows you to run the application or not.
Large companies who use an application deployed over many machines with several users can't have many USB-dongles all over the place.
The dongles themselves might be worth a lot and it's not safe having them in each users computer. A way to work around that is by installing a license manager on a central server and recieve a USB-dongle from the software company that has more than 1 license available. Let's say fifteen.
Now, when the application is deployed to computers it is also deployed with a license client that is configured to connect to the central server to get a license -- instead of a USB-dongle.
Larger companies with, usually, home owners often set up their own license server in their own data center and pre-configure their application to connect to this server and verify that the user have a license to use the application.

Of these 3 options, number 3 is most likely your case. You would problably have noticed otherwise.
You can download an application like TCPView v3.05
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437
to check outgoing and incoming connections.
There you will see where FLEXnet Licensing Service is connecting.

HOSTS SETUP example for Adobe:

1: Turn off all internet access.

2: You need to find your existing hosts file so navigate to here (hidden files and folders need to be shown);

Windows 7/Vista/XP = C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC
Windows 2K = C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC

3: In the ETC folder is a file called hosts, open this file with notepad (double click then open with notepad), in notepad the file will look like this;

rumsfeld · Member 3 Joined: 29 Oct 2011 Posts: 572

Hi Rott,
This the manual about licensing..
http://www.minitab.com/uploadedFiles/Shared_Resources/Documents/License_Management/flexnet_licensing_end_user_guide.pdf
or this...
http://www.synopsys.com/support/LI/Licensing/Documents/Dockeys/enduser.pdf
If you have a method on how to activate all the Rockwell softwares then
show us....
Probably It's necessary to have an initial valid license and then copy from \etc...
Am I right...???