Dongles – Overview - Engineering

Detailed information about the dongle driver and its keys can now be viewed directly from the LMU.

Path: Settings > Dongle Overview.

Dongles are USB devices which are used for securing certificate licenses. There are 2 types of dongles that are supported by LMU. These are CMD.04 Driverless Dongles and CMD.04 Dongles.

CMD.04 Driverless Dongles

CMD.04 Driverless Dongle is shown in the picture below. "new" dongles have "golden" letters.
IDs of this type of dongles are in the following format: 1346783461 (a 10 digit number).
When a dongle is plugged into the LMU, system displays the ID on the GUI.

CMD.04 Dongles

CMD.04 Dongle is shown in the picture below. "old" dongles have "white" letters
IDs of this type of dongles are in the following format: 1346783461 (a 10 digit number).
When a dongle is plugged into the LMU, system displays the ID on the GUI.

Dongle ID Visualization in Physical Machine

A green dot appears on Product Family view for each certificate license, if the dongle assigned for this license is plugged into the machine.

• See also
  Naming convention of certificate files.