This articles covers the process of activating a Floating trusted storage license (legacy) using the FlexNet activation utility.
Activation methods
There are two methods of activating a Floating trusted storage license.
- Online activation (depracated) - 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.
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.
Online activation (deprecated)
- Activate your entitlement using the offline activation process.
Offline Activation
- Stop FlexNet license manager
- Open FlexNet license activation utility.
- Navigate to the Activation tab.
- Choose 'Offline Mode', enter your activation code on the space provided and click the Activate button.
- Save the Offline RequestXML file.
- Send Offline RequestXML file to Lumerical Support. A corresponding ResponseXML file will be provided.
- Save/Copy the ResponseXML file into the machine where you generated the RequestXML file.
- Stop FlexNet license manager
- Open the FlexLM activation utility and browse and install the ResponseXML file to complete the process.