Floating License Installation (SpinFire Pro Build 818 or Later)


SpinFire Professional Support

Note: These instructions are for installing the floating license configuration to be used with SpinFire Professional Build 818 or later. If you would like to install or update a floating license configuration to work with earlier versions of SpinFire Professional, see Floating License Installation (SpinFire Pro Build 814 or Earlier). Please note that you cannot have SpinFire Professional seats running under different floating license configurations on the same network.

Determine the build number from the SpinFire Professional menu bar by selecting Help > About.

About Floating Licenses

Floating Licenses allow multiple users on a network to access SpinFire Professional. A Floating License Server is required to allocate and keep track of the Floating Licenses.

The number of network users allowed to access SpinFire Professional at one time will be equivalent to the number of floating license seats that have been purchased.

See the installation instructions below.

Floating License Server Requirements

Pentium II class computer
96MB Ram
Windows NT, Windows 2000 (Workstation or Server), or Windows XP.
TCP/IP protocol installed

Installation

Note: These instructions are for installing the floating license configuration to be used with SpinFire Professional Build 818 or later. If you would like to install or update a floating license configuration to work with earlier versions of SpinFire Professional, see Floating License Installation (SpinFire Pro Build 814 or Earlier). Please note that you cannot have SpinFire Professional seats running under different floating license configurations on the same network. Determine the build number from the SpinFire Professional menu bar by selecting Help > About.

Download and install SFFloatingInst_840.exe on a computer on your network, and note the destination folder you install in.

Note: If upgrading an older version of the Floating License Server, install on the same computer where your current Floating License Server is installed.
Copy the sfpflv2.dat file into the folder where the Floating License Server is installed, overwriting any versions of those files that may currently be located there. (Default location: C:\Program Files\Actify\Floating License Manager\ )

Actify emailed the sfpflv2.dat file as an attachment when you purchased your floating seats.
Note: You also may have received a license.dat from Actify. Please ignore this file, as it is used only for the older SpinFire Professional floating license configuration (Build 814 and earlier).
If you do not have the sfpflv2.dat file, email the Host ID, Server Name, Seat ID, and Build Number to support@actify.com. These files will then be generated and sent to you.

The "Host ID" is also known as the Server MAC Address. Determine the Host ID by opening a DOS prompt, going to the folder where the Floating License Server is installed, and executing the lmutil lmhostid command.
The "Server Name" is the name of the computer running the Floating License Server on the network.
Determine the "Seat ID" in SpinFire Professional by selecting the Options component, clicking the Internet Activation link, and looking at the Seat ID field.
Determine the "Build Number" from the SpinFire Professional menu bar by selecting Help > About.

Reboot the computer running the Floating License Server.
Update each floating client on the network:

Install SpinFire Professional, if it has not been installed already.

Use the Seat ID to download SpinFire Professional from http://iq.actify.com/iq/4_03/download/frmCustLogin.asp

If running SpinFire Professional 2004v2 Build 845 or earlier, copy the sfpflv2.dat file to the kernel folder. (Default location: C:\Program Files\Actify\Kernel\ )

Note:

sfpflv2.dat

Restart SpinFire Professional.
Use the Seat ID to activate SpinFire Professional, if it has not been activated already.