Disable Case Sensitivity for NI Licenses in FLEXlm Options File (FlexNet)

Updated Nov 2, 2023

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  • FlexNet

Issue Details

We are using FlexLM Options File for our NI Licenses and in our system, some of the user names are written in certain machines with capital letters while in other machines with low case (for example Employee.One@company.com or employee.one@company.com).

This results in an error on some of our PCs to pull a license from our server as while they are the same users the license only pulls out the exact match of the user name that is entered in the options file.

How can I fix this? 

Solution

You will need to add the GROUPCASEINSENSITIVE statement to your options file and you will need to set it to ON.
The GROUPCASEINSENSITIVE statement sets case sensitivity for users or host lists specified in USER_GROUP and HOST_GROUP keywords. This should be placed at the top of the options file.

If set to ON, user names and host names specified with the options file GROUP and HOST_GROUP keywords, respectively, are treated as case insensitive. By default GROUPCASEINSENSITIVE is OFF; user names and host names are treated as case sensitive.

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LicensingEndUserGuide - FlexNet.pdf

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