Activating a license transfers the license rights from the Harris Download and Licensing Center 
to a node-locked (local) computer or license server. It also creates the features and quantities 
of licenses that enable the software to run. When you purchase Harris Geospatial products, you 
will receive an email with an activation code to use to activate your software license. The license 
is a concurrent process license for each product that was purchased.

These instructions describe how to activate on a local computer (node-locked licenses). 
Licenses are activated over the Internet. 

To open the License Administrator Tool described in this section, use one of the following:

    Linux:	From a terminal window, launch the harrislicense command from the `$INSTALL_DIR/idlxx/bin` 
   		directory. Sudo or root permissions are required.
    
    Mac: 	From a Finder window, double-click the LicenseAdminstrator.app icon located under 
    		the `$INSTALL_DIR/idlxx` directory. Administrator privileges are required.

##Activate Licenses## 

    1. In the License Administrator Tool, click `Activate Local License`.
    2. Enter the activation codes.
    3. Enter the Quantity of licenses you are entitled to.
    4. Click Activate. A message appears when the codes are successfully activated. 
       To view details on the activated licenses for the computer, click View Licenses. 

##To Activate From Command Line##

Run the following:
	`$ activate -a activation-code [-q quantity]`



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