Details
Network domain changes - will that impact the licensing relationship?
This question is answered particularly in light of a change with the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN).
Solution
(1) NX licensing and the COMPOSITE hostid:
a. The COMPOSITE hostid consists of many things both hardware and
software/OS wise.
b. Two of those items for sure are;
i. Physical address of the network card the COMPOSITE hostid is
associated with. There can be more than 1 network card and
therefore more than 1 COMPOSITE hostid.
ii. The hostname (in general terms).
(2) TCP/IP
For FLEXlm licensing to work, the TCP/IP relationship (port/socket,
hostname resolution) between the FLEXlm license server and FLEXlm clients
is a necessary prerequisite.
(3) Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDM) for licensing - OBSERVATIONS ONLY
a. A handful of customers do not use the short hostname but instead a
FQDM for identifying the license server "hostname" in the licensing configuration.
b. License Server example;
License file on license server - SERVER line
Instead of (which is most common);
SERVER shorthostname COMPOSITE=XXXXXXXXXXXX 28000
The SERVER line might look like;
SERVER shorthostname.domain.com COMPOSITE=XXXXXXXXXXXX 28000
c. In conjunction with the above, client machines might have the following
System variable SPLM_LICENSE_SERVER defined as follows:
Instead of (which is most common);
SPLM_LICENSE_SERVER=28000@shorthostname
The license server identifying variable might look like;
SPLM_LICENSE_SERVER=28000@shorthostname.domain.com
(4) General answer to the original question:
IF item (3) represents your situation, then you WOULD have to adjust
the licensing identification on the license server (on the SERVER line
in the license file) and SPLM_LICENSE_SERVER variable value on each NX client
to successfully reflect the domain change accordingly.
Otherwise, if the short hostname was used, there shouldn't be any
adjustments necessary (assuming all other network - TCP/IP
identification between the clients and license server machine remain
intact following the domain change).
Hardware/Software Configuration
Platform: INTL64
OS: windows
OS Version: 2019
Product: NX
Application: SYSTEM
Version: V1953
Function: SYSTEM_TOOLS
Ref: 002-8523957