This articles covers the process of activating a Floating trusted storage license (legacy) using the FlexNet activation utility.
Important
- Save your activation code.
- License cannot be Activated on more than 1 machine at a time.
- Please protect your license and Deactivate them if you want to change anything or upgrade your machine. See Protecting your license for details.
- License can be deactivated up to three (3) times in a year.
Activation methods
There are two methods of activating a Floating trusted storage license.
- Online activation (deprecated) - only offline activation is supported.
- Offline activation - This method is done by generating an 'offline requestXML file' and sending this to Lumerical. A 'responseXML file' will be provided to complete the activation process.
Online activation (deprecated)
- Delete the activation history (if any) from the Legacy Lumerical FlexLM.
- Activate your entitlement using the offline activation process.
Offline activation
Delete activation history
- Stop FlexNet license manager
- Open FlexNet license activation utility.
- Navigate to the "Trusted Storage Activation History" tab.
- Select each activation request and delete them one at a time, if there any any.
Offline activation process
- Open FlexNet license activation utility.
- Navigate to the "Trusted Storage Activation" tab.
- Choose 'Offline Mode', enter your activation code on the space provided and click the Activate button.
- Save the "Offline RequestXML" file and send this to Lumerical Support. A corresponding "ResponseXML" file will be provided.
- Save/Copy the ResponseXML file into the machine where you generated the RequestXML file.
- Open the FlexLM activation utility.
- Navigate to the "Trusted Storage Activation History" tab.
- Select "Offline Mode" then "Browse" and install the "ResponseXML" file to complete the activation process.
See also
Floating trusted storage license command line activation in Linux
Untrusted, Unknown and Disabled license