3.1. The License File

A license file structure consist of different types of lines, let's describe shortly some of them.

# Line

All Lines beginning with a #, which are considered as comments.

SERVER Line

The line beginning with keyword SERVER tells modeFRONTIER the hostname of the license server, its HostID, and which port to use for connecting to the license server.

A valid entry for the SERVER line can be:

     SERVER hostname 00105b159823 7157

where hostname is the hostname of the license server, 00105b159823 is the HostID and 7157 is the port. You can change the hostname if you change the name of your license server, and you can change the port number. You cannot change the HostID, since the license keys are encrypted using the HostID.

DAEMON|VENDOR Line

The line beginning with the keyword DAEMON|VENDOR shows modeFRONTIER^TM which vendor daemon has to be used for the different licensed features.

The default DAEMON line for the modeFRONTIER^TM product on UNIX systems is:

DAEMON esteco mypath/esteco

or for WINDOWS systems,

DAEMON esteco c:\mypath\esteco.exe

where mypath is the absolute path for the vendor daemon esteco.exe

The ONLY item you can modify on the DAEMON|VENDOR lines is the path of the license daemon esteco/esteco.exe. The path should be changed accordingly with the final target platform.

FEATURE/INCREMENT Line

One or more lines beginning with keyword FEATURE orINCREMENT. These lines contain your license keys.

Some valid FEATURE/INCREMENT lines for the modeFRONTIER^TM can be:

SERVER hostaname 00065CCAF848
VENDOR esteco esteco.exe

FEATURE mf_gui esteco 3.0 1-dec-2003 2 NOTICE="ES.TEC.O srl (Demo License #9999)" SIGN="008C \
	4F15 5292 B663 888D 89BA 9442 F700 2AE7 E34B 6A1D A668 AC7C \
	91CC 354F"

INCREMENT mf_gui esteco 3.0 1-oct-2003 4 NOTICE="ES.TEC.O srl (Demo License #9999)" SIGN="00ED \
	1153 5D54 47BD C61 9DA1 43D4 7200 FE8E 18D0 2EDE A42C 9117 \
	33F0 5555"

INCREMENT mf_batch4 esteco 3.0 1-dec-2003 2 NOTICE="ES.TEC.O srl (Demo License #9999)" SIGN="00ED \
	1C53 5D54 47BD C451 9DA1 42D4 7200 FE9E 18D0 2FDE A42C 9119 \
	73F0 1349"

The different parameters for the FEATURE mf_gui, which license the modeFRONTIER^TMGraphic User Interface, can be explained as follows:

mf_gui : It is FEATURE name which identify a specific part of the software to be licensed.
esteco : It is the name of the vendor dependent daemon.
3.0 : It is the feature version.
1-dec-2003 : It is license key expire date.
2 : It is the number of concurrent users that can run the features on the network.

The INCREMENT mf_gui line adds 4 more licenses to the FEATURE mf_gui but with a shorter time out.

Note:

Those parameters CAN NOT BE CHANGED, they are encrypted in the signature key.

NOTICE="ES.TEC.O srl (Demo License #9999)" : The NOTICE parameter contains the main licensee informations, usually the licensee name and the licensee id number.

SIGN="1C53 5D54 ... 47BD" : This parameter contains the encrypted key. The encryption process includes all the previous parameters which therefore CAN NOT BE CHANGED by the final user.

As described above you can not change any information that is encrypted in the license signature. You can, however, add spaces and split the entries over several lines to make them more readable by adding a backslash to the end of all but the last line of each entry.