Installing a Node-Locked FEMAP Network Client License

A stand-alone node-locked network client version of FEMAP is a method for securing FEMAP not with a Parallel Port dongle, but with the ethernet ID of your computer.  To run in this mode, you must first provide Enterprise Software Products, Inc. with the machine unique information that identifies your computer.  To obtain this information, please see Getting Your Machine ID.  After you have received your license file from ESP, do the following to get FEMAP up and running:

  1. Place the license file, usually named license.dat, place that file in the same directory where you installed FEMAP.
  2. Start FEMAP - If the license file is indeed named "license.dat", and it is in the FEMAP directory, you should be ready to go, if something is out of whack, you will see the following:
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    Whatever you do, do not go into this Dialog Box at all, Press Cancel to continue into FEMAP unlicensed.
  3. Although you are not licensed, FEMAP will start, first displaying the following errors to let you know that FEMAP was not able to check out a FlexLM license:
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  4. Press OK in both of these boxes to proceed into FEMAP.  Once in, Select Help - About from the FEMAP menu, FEMAP will display the Help About Dialong Box:
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  5. In the Help - About Dialog Box, press the Security Button, FEMAP will bring up the Network License Information Dialog Box:
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  6. In the Network License Information Dialog Box, fill in the License File line with the complete path and filename of the license file.  After you are done, press OK in the Network License Information Box, and in the Help About Dialog Box.  At this point you will be in FEMAP and be licensed.  It is best to actually exit FEMAP and start again, first to make sure that you will be able to do so in the future, and second to initialize any optional modules that were allowed via the setting in your license file.

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