What is included in my license file?

Your license file is a text file that you received from ESRI Customer Service. Each license file contains the following lines:

SERVER – identifies the license manager server and the TCP/IP port number through which it communicates.  For Windows this line will also contain the ESRI_SENTINEL_KEY (hardware key) number.

VENDOR – identifies the vendor, ESRI

FEATURE – defines which ESRI software products and extensions, including the version, you are licensed for, the number of seats (licenses you can access simultaneously), and a time-out date. Each FEATURE line also contains a unique keycode.  This keycode is based upon a unique identifier provided by a computer or hardware key.

UPGRADE (optional) – defines which software products and extension licenses have been upgraded to a newer version. The upgrade line contains the upgrade (new) version, how many licenses were upgraded and the time-out date. This line is only present if the number of upgraded licenses is less than the total number of licenses for that software product or extension

The following is an example of a partial license file (Windows):

SERVER test ESRI_SENTINEL_KEY=37100001 27005

VENDOR ESRI

FEATURE ARC/INFO ESRI 8.01 01-jan-00 1 3BFE809141F5AFA39454 vendor_info="8CDZLST7BRCD3K17G105" ck=27

 

SERVER:

test

HARDWARE KEY*:

37100001

PORT NUMBER:

27005

FEATURE:

ARC/INFO

VENDOR:  

ESRI

VERSION:

8.01

TIMEOUT:

No Timeout (1-Jan-00 has been established as a 'No Timeout' date)

SEATS:

1 seat available

ENCRYPTION KEYCODE:

3BFE809141F5AFA39454 vendor_info="8CDZLST7BRCD3K17G105"

 

 

  *UNIX license files do not contain hardware key information.