Summary: This page details the arguments that may be supplied to the licensetool command line utility (licensetoolcmd.exe).

Notes

• All of the following commands can also be supplied to the License Tool GUI application (licensetool.exe), when starting it from a command shell. However, since the license tool does not have stderr or stdout, the results of the following commands will not appear on the screen.
• In addition, when calling these commands from licensetool.exe (the GUI), all arguments must be preceeded by the "-nowin" argument.

Actions

Checkout

• Description:
  • Checkout a product
• Arguments:
  • productid:id -Numeric id of the product to check in. (mandatory)
  • productversion:versionnumber -product version number (mandatory)
  • productfeatures:"featurestring" -features of the product.(mandatory, if there are features associated with the product). NOTE: Because feature strings contain the pipe "|" symbol, they MUST be wrapped in quotes in order to work.
  • checkoutperiod:days -Number of days for which this product will be checked out. (optional)
  • email:noname@bentley.com - The email address of the user performing the checkout. (optional)
• Example:

licensetoolcmd checkout /productid:1000 /productversion:8.11.7.443 /email:username@company.com 

Checkin

• Description:
  • Checkin a product
• Arguments:
  • productid:id -Numeric id of the product to check in. (mandatory)
  • productversion:versionnumber -product version number (mandatory)
  • productfeatures:"featurestring" -features of the product.(mandatory, if there are features associated with the product). NOTE: Because feature strings contain the pipe "|" symbol, they MUST be wrapped in quotes in order to work.with the product)

• Example:

licensetoolcmd checkin /productid:1000 /productversion:8.11.7.443 

Import

• Description:
  • Import a checked out license
• Arguments:
  • file:file name -license file to import (mandatory)
• Example:

licensetoolcmd import /file:c:\mymachine-MicroStation-License.xml

List

• Description:
  • Lists either the products available for checkout or what products are currently checked out on the machine. The default is to produce both lists.
• Arguments:
  • avail -Display only the list of products available for checkout. (optional)
  • out -Display only the list of products currently checked out. (optional)
• Example:

licensetoolcmd list -avail 

Status

• Description:
  • Lists the current configuration of the license client on the machine running the command.
• Arguments:
  • no arguments exist for this command.
• Example:

licensetoolcmd status 

Configure

• Description:
  • Configure a license client option. Takes a license client setting and a value for that setting.
• Arguments:
  • setting:setting_name -The name of the setting to be saved. (mandatory)
  • value:setting_value -The setting value. (mandatory)
  • productid:id -The product id associated with this setting . (optional)

Available Settings:

SELECTserver	The name of the SELECTserver.
ActivationKey	The Activation Key to be used.
UseProxy	Determines whether or not the configured proxy should be used. The possible values are : “Yes”, “No”.
ProxyServer	Name of Proxy Server.
ProxyNeedsAuth	Determines if the configured proxy server requires authentication. The possible values are : “Yes”, “No”.
ProxyDomain	Domain name to use for proxy authentication.
ProxyUser	User name to use for proxy authentication.
ProxyPassword	Password to use for proxy authention.

• Example:

licensetoolcmd configure /setting:selectserver /value:selectserver.bentley.com

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