How to activate your Spider LCM 6.x or Columbus 7.x license

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Summary

You have been installing Spider LCM 6.x or Columbus 7.x and your License Console tells you to activate your license or you get an e-mail from the Columbus server that you should activate your license.

Discussion

To activate your license please follow these steps:

1. If you got an e-mail from your Columbus server you can jump to #5
2. Open the License Console (Start > All Programs > Columbus | Spider > License Console )
3. Select one of the items which is not activated yet
4. Open Main Menu > Save Activation Request for Selected License ID
5. Save the file with your company name to a location you can remember
6. Send this file to o-support@flexera.com
7. You then will receive an activation file (xml). Save it to a known location you can access within the License Console.
8. Open the License Console again
9. Open Main Menu > Import Activation Information File
10. Select the activation file you have got
11. After confirmation your license has been activated
    
    Congratulations 🙂

[TomStarke]

This article is completely outdated.

Please update with current procedure.

Cordially,

Tom