Article - CS20911

Transfer of product license from an existing Host ID to a new Host ID

Modified: 13-Feb-2025   


Applies To

  • PTC Arbortext Editor 6.0 to 8.0
  • Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro Wildfire to Wildfire 5.0
  • Mathcad Prime 7.0 to 10.0
  • Creo Parametric 1.0 to 11.0
  • Creo View 1.0 to 10.1
  • PTC RV&S (formerly Integrity Lifecycle Manager) 4.6/ 8.6 to 12.1
  • Windchill Quality Solutions Enterprise Edition 10.0 to 11.0
  • Creo Illustrate 1.0 to 9.1
  • Windchill Quality Solutions Team Edition 10.0 to 11.0
  • Windchill Risk and Reliability Enterprise Edition (Formerly Relex) 11.1
  • PTC Customer Service Web Application (License Management)

Description

  • Online transfer of licenses from an existing HOSTID (MAC/Physical address) to new HOSTID
  • How to transfer licenses to new PTC_HOSTID from the PTC Support site
  • Move license from one computer to another
  • How to move / transfer PTC product licenses registered to an existing hardware to new hardware MAC address?
  • How to get a new license file for a new machine MAC/Physical address
  • How to transfer existing PTC product licenses to a new server
  • How to transfer license file from old to new server
  • The 'license Identification' page of the setup returns status PTC_HOSTID is Invalid when license file path is provided
  • How to split licenses for Creo Parametric from a single server to different individual machines
  • How to consolidate individual licenses on Host IDs of several machines into a single Host ID of the License server machine
  • How to merge a new license with an existing license
  • Need to transfer license to a new host ID due to error FLEXnet Licensing Error: -9, 57
  • How to deactivate an old license file if we move the license to a new host ID  
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