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• Download the VCG SDK from the website and extract it into the required directory.
• Open the file machind\vcg_code.h and enter into here the vendor daemon name, security seeds used by your company (note that the template may not include LM_SEED in the template, so you may have to add it after the ENCRYPTION_SEED section), and lm_strength (note that lm_strength will change with newer versions). These can be found in the machind\lm_code.h file from your FLEXlm / FLEXnet Licensing installation.
• Once this is done, save the file and edit the vcg.mak file in the platform specific directory that has also been created.
• Replace "VENDOR = demo" with "VENDOR = " and the name of your vendor daemon (same as in the vcg_code.h file).
• Copy platform\lmprikey.h from your FLEX toolkit folder to the platform directory of your VCG toolkit.
• Now build the VCG using the standard compiler: >nmake vcg.mak

IMPORT VCG INTO OPS

Once this is done you can then import this into the FlexNet Operations system.

To configure FLEXnet Operations with your own production VCG:

1. Copy your platform-specific VCG into an ops_install_dir/custom/platform/bin directory, where platform corresponds to the operating system on which FLEXnet Operations is running:

i86_n3 (Windows)
i86_re3 (Linux)
sun4_u8 (Solaris)

If your VCG was built on any of the three Linux platforms supported by the VCG kit, use a platform directory of i86_re3.

The file will be made executable when it is copied into the site directory. The VCG is run from the site directory, but will be preserved on an upgrade or reconfiguration of the site directory if it is located in the custom tree, so make sure and copy over both vcg.exe and publisher.xml. (Note: You'll need to do a flexnet site make to incorporate new VCG.) Also, make sure any entitlement you later create uses a Transaction Key that coincides with the correct VCG.

2. In the FLEXnet Operations web application, click the Administer Operations button. Click Create a License Generator Configuration in the left navigation pane.

3. From the License Technology choice list, select FLEXnet Licensing. (To create a license generator configuration for a different license technology, see Creating a License Generator Configuration.)

4. View or change the values of the following settings. Required fields are indicated with an asterisk. If a default value exists, it is listed as the first choice.

http://bruce:8818/flexnet/help/Operations/opsCreateVcgConfig.htm
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5. Click Save to save the configuration for this VCG.

6. Stop FLEXnet Operations.

7. To load files from the custom directory into the site directory, in the ops_install_dir directory, type flexnet site make.

8. Restart FLEXnet Operations

CREATE ENTITLEMENT IN OPS

(...make an entitlement called supermanRetailENT with supermanFeature...)

ACTIVATE ENTITLEMENT IN CLIENT TS

1. Make sure you have the vendorfnp.dll, FnpComms*.dll (from /platform/publisher directory), and application in appactutil directory.

3. Check local TS with "appactutil -view" to verify license is activated.

CHECKOUT A LICENSE