To generate a network license file the first step is to download the Network License Manager. We recommend that network administrators always update licensing servers with the most recent version of Network License Manager when it is released to avoid any licensing issues and ensure compatibility with current versions of other Autodesk software products.
Note: The latest installers for the Autodesk Network License Manager install both IPv4 and IPv6 versions of the NLM. If your network uses the IPv4 protocol, you should not have to make any other changes. If your network uses the IPv6 protocol, you may want to set the FNP_IP_PRIORITY environment variable to give priority to IPv6, which can improve performance and avoid unwanted IPv4 address resolution. Refer to the latest version of the FlexNet document, License Administration Guide for more information.
Click on the link below that matches your operating system to download the most recent version (11.13.1.2) of Autodesk Network License Manager:
Windows:
Mac OS X:
Linux:
The next step is to generate the network license file once the network license manager is downloaded and set up.
After planning your network and installing the Network License Manager (NLM), you need to obtain a network license file from Autodesk. This license file contains important licensing and server information and is used to configure your server so that you can run the NLM.
Generating a network license file in Autodesk Account and validating that license consists of the following tasks:
Note: Continue to request license files using RegisterOnce if you need a package license file for an older version, you are using an Educational license, or you need a reseller to generate a license.
Generating network license files in Autodesk Account requires you to provide information about your network license server(s). Here is the information required for each server model type:
Single Server Model:
Redundant Server Model:
Distributed Server Model:
See these articles to learn more about license server model options and locating names and addresses of servers:
In order to generate a network license in Autodesk Account you must be a Contract Manager or Software Coordinator and have a subscription with multi-user access for the product requiring a network license, otherwise you will not see the following options in Autodesk Account.
Sign in to your Autodesk Account using the email address and password you provided when you bought your subscription. There are two methods for beginning the process of generating a license file:
Select the license server model that corresponds to your network environment and enter your server information.
Single Server Model
Click Change Server Model to select a different server model. This will discard any information you’ve entered and return you to the previous screen.
Redundant Server Model
Distributed Server Model
Repeat steps 1–3 until you have added all your distributed servers and specified products for each.
Note: If you started by pre-selecting the product in step 2, your product will automatically have been added to the server model you chose. You can either skip this step or use this list to add additional products.
In the previous steps you clicked the + button to select product licenses for the servers. From the list of available products, select the products to be included in the license file. Click Select all to include all products or click the checkbox for individual products. Click Add selected when finished.
Note: If you are generating a license file for single or redundant server models, you can skip this step.
For distributed servers, you need to allocate the available number of seats to the different servers for the products you added. Click the + or – buttons to increment or decrement the number of seats for each product on each server.
The system will warn you if you have under-allocated (not allocating all available seats) or over-allocated (allocating more seats than are available). Adjust the seat allocations until you have used all available seats. You will not be able to generate a license file if you have over-allocated seats.
When you are ready to generate the license files, click the Get license file button.
License information is displayed according to the servers and products you specified. Click Copy to clipboard to copy this information to be pasted into a license file. ClickSave as… to save the license file to a specified location.
Clicking Send and close will send the license file to the email address associated with your Autodesk account. If you provide additional email addresses, the license file will be sent to those addresses as well.
For distributed servers, license files are generated separately for each server and this screen will be displayed once for each license file. Click Send and next to email each license file and advance to the next license file. Click Send and close when you have reached the last license file.
After you have generated your license file, you must save it on your license server. We recommend you save your license file to the location where you installed your Network License Manager or to a separate folder where you keep your licenses. Here are example locations for different operating systems when using the latest version of the Network License Manager (11.13.1.2):
Windows:
Mac:
Linux:
Note: The license file you generated will have a default name such as, NOSTROMO0011855170BE.lic. You can rename the license file to anything you prefer but it must have a “.lic” extension.
After generating your license file, it is important to confirm that it contains the correct information. Your license file will only work on the machine that has the same physical address as shown in the license. If the host name does not match the host name of the server, you can modify the host name in your license file. If the physical address does not match the physical address of the server you must generate a new license with the correct physical address.
To confirm the accuracy of your license file:
Note: Do not use Microsoft Word or any other word processing program that might modify the formatting of the license file.
SERVER NOSTROMO 001F5B398D08
Redundant server license
SERVER NOSTROMO 001F5B398C08
SERVER SULACO 005056b5600a
SERVER AURIGA 00FFC0D3BD0E
After you verify that your license file is correct, you can close it and move to installing and configuring the Network License Manager.
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