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activate from command line

Burton_R_ — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:27:44 GMT

Hello,

We have a floating Fortran Composer license. Last night we changed the NIC in the server, and of course this started causing licenses to fail. I was able to re-register the hostid and get the new license file installed on the server. However, on all of the clients, I had to delete the old .lic files and re-activate through the Intel Software Manager before it would start working.

So my question is this: is there a command-line interface that will allow me to re-activate licenses on clients so that I can distribute a batch file to all of my users in lieu of giving them manual instructions? Better yet, since we're contacting a licensing server on every build anyway, could you just fix it so the client automatically updates the local .lic files?

I have found that simply

Burton_R_ — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:32:28 GMT

I have found that simply replacing the existing license files on the clients is sufficient. Please let me know if there are any inherent issues with this approach.

Hi Burton,

James_T_Intel — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:57:46 GMT

Hi Burton,

How are the license files set up on the clients? Since you have changed the hostid, you'll need to update the license files on each of the clients to match it. You should be able to copy the license file, rather than doing a new activation for each.

Sincerely,
James Tullos
Technical Consulting Engineer
Intel® Cluster Tools