With the Licence generator installed and licenced, open up the Licence generator application (The default path for this is: C:\Program Files (x86)\IPV\Licence Generator)

1. Retrieve the MAC address of the server where the licences are going to be housed. There are many ways to get this information - a few have been listed here:
   • Ask the customer.
   • On the relevant server, navigate to the Licence Manager URL (http://localhost:11125/) . In the top right-hand corner, the website will outline the MAC address.
   • Open CMD and type ipconfig -all
     • The first Physical Address will be the MAC address needed.
2. Enter the MAC address into Licence Manager.
3. In this example we will be licencing Process Engine, but this can be reused for any product.
   • Vendor: IPV
   • Application: Process Engine > Configure Licence
   • Click Start Date/End Date and enter info
   • Allowed Use: This will be the number of allowed processes the application in question can do at once. (The max allowed use is 200, more can be added but the system may not accept the value).
   • Extensions: Over Use (An amount of extra uses could be used if the Allowed Use value is reached).
   • Save.
4. Repeat process for all applications necessary
5. When complete, click the ‘Create Licences’ button and choose a file location.
6. For the licence to be in use:
   • Stop the Licence Manager Service on the server
   • Copy the licence to the Licence Manager folder (Program Files x86\IPV\Licence Manager)
   • Start the service
   • Navigate to the Licence Manager website (http://localhost:11125/)) and check that the new licence was picked up.

Reading a licence.xml file

1. Open up your Licence.xml file in a notepad editor, preferably Notepad++.
2. For licences with a large number of configurations, it is often easier to collapse the XML tags for easier visibility
   • In the language tab select XML
   • In the view tab select Fold All
   • Click the plus sign on the left hand side of the Licences tab.
3. Always start reading the licence file from the bottom up:
4. To understand the information set for one particular product, look for lines similar to <licence type="General" id="Root" originator="IPV" vendor="IPV" application="XStream">. These also state the vendor value and application value. This will allow you to populate the drop-down lists in Licence Generator.
   • Everything before the above line, stopping at the next line that outlines the Vendor/Application, will be the specific configuration settings needed.
   • There can be occasions where there are pairs of the same id type in one section. In the above example, SVServer Simply Playback and SVServer Active Playbackis stated twice.
     • The licence extension always refers to the Extensions section in Licence generator (Duration = Duration and count = Over use)

1. • • Licence manager
       • Start/End date is connected to the same field.
       • Duration is simply the amount of days between the start/end date.
       • Count refers to the allowed use.