Changing the Connection Settings for VDX Licensing

In specific situations, it is useful to change the connection settings of the VDX Licensing Service.
Such a situation can be, for example, if the VDX Licensing Service is hosted on a machine in a different network segment than the VDX Licensing Console and the VDX Engine(s).

To change the connection settings of the VDX Licensing Service, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to %programfiles%\Ivanti\VDX Licensing Service and open the configuration file named RES.LicensingService.exe.config with a text editor.

  2. Search the configuration file for BaseAddress — this setting specifies the host name of the VDX Licensing Service.
    By default, this is the DNS name of the computer where the VDX Licensing Service is installed.

    Use one of the following values to specify a different host name and optionally a port:

    Value

    Example

    FQDN 1 name of host

    WIN10.demo.com

    FQDN name of host+port number

    WIN10.demo.com:1234

    IP address of host

    		 192.168.10.4

    IP address of host+port number

    192.168.10.4:3456

  3. Search the configuration file for <value> — this setting specifies the port number used by VDX Licensing Service.
    By default no value is given, which implies that the default port number (808) is used.

    To change the port number, use the following value:

    Value

    Example

    <value>hostname:portnumber</value>

    <value>WIN7x64:812</value>

  • When specifying a port number different than the default port number (808), the firewall settings need to be adjusted accordingly.
  • The VDX Licensing Service supports Port Sharing.

To change the connection settings of the VDX Licensing Console, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to %programfiles%\Ivanti\VDX Licensing Service and open the configuration file named RES.LicensingService.Console.exe.config with a text editor.

  2. Search the configuration file for <DetectTimeOut> — this setting specifies the timeout in seconds after which the VDX Licensing Console stops looking for a VDX Licensing Service.

    Change the value to the desired number of seconds.

  3. Search the configuration file for <PreferredHost> — this setting specifies the host name of the computer where the preferred VDX Licensing Service is installed.
    The VDX Licensing Console always tries to connect to the preferred VDX Licensing Service host. If the field is empty or AutoDetect is used, the VDX Licensing Console uses multicast messages to search in the same subnet for another VDX Licensing Service.

    Use one of the following values to specify a different preferred host name and optionally a port (depends on the settings on the VDX Licensing Service host):

    Value

    Example

    FQDN 2 name of host

    WIN10.demo.com

    FQDN name of host+port number

    WIN10.demo.com:1234

    IP address of host

    		 192.168.10.4

    IP address of host+port number

    192.168.10.4:3456