Summary

Explanation of swidtag file with lmadmin installer

Question

The lmadmin installer on both Windows and Linux installs the file 'README-swidtag-lmadmin.txt' to the installed directory. The file describes creating a directory and moving the included *.swidtag file to that directory. These instructions are not found in the FlexNet Publisher Doc library nor indicated by the installer on either Windows or Linux platforms. Our lmadmin installation instructions to our users had included instructions to configure the *.swidtag file on the Linux platform, but not the Windows platform...and our Windows users have not experienced any problems. So here are my questions:

1. What is the purpose of the swidtag file?
2. Is the swidtag file configuration still relevant?
3. hat is the effect of configuring or not configuring the swidtag file as instructed?

Answer

Please find the answers to your questions below:

1. What is the purpose of the swidtag file?
   Organization that use a software asset management tool are able to recognized software asset inventory by parsing the software tag identify by the vendor. These software tags are industry set standard to identify software components.
2. Is the swidtag file configuration still relevant?
   If you're using tools that use software asset management, then yes. Otherwise, no.
3. What is the effect of configuring or not configuring the swidtag file as instructed?
   None. This is solely for software asset management.