LINUX : ID for MATLAB

Hello

Could you confirm that for LINUX, I can use only MAC@ and not Volume ID ?

[Andreas Goser]

What do you mean by "use"? That is a question about the product?

[Andreas Goser]

I looked into it and it seems it is related to activation. Can you tell me which release you are using and which Linux?

[Christine]

Hello,

Yes, I speak about activation.

I will ask to my colleagues. It's for OFFLINE activation.

For windows, we use only Volume ID for OFFLINE activation. I prefer do the same for LINUX as some of our PC can have the MAC@ not available for SSI reasons.

Regards,

C. GAL

[Walter Roberson]

The documentation has always referred to volume serial number activation as only being available on Windows.

[Christine]

Matlab R19b

Linux : Ubuntu 16.04

Answer 1

[Andreas Goser]

Thank you for sharing the context about offline activation. I am confident the information in the article is complete and correct. As offline activation is a frequent need in the defense industry, I wonder if that is your industry and in such a case I would not rely on a user community, but your IT reaching out to MathWorks.

As you can see, I am a MathWorks employee, but my know-how in this field is probably somewhat outdated. I found an internal knowledgbase article that suggests the underlying reason for the question may be an unqualified distributon. But I can exclude that. Although your release is somewhat old, the OS/release combination is qualified.

This article also shares why attempting to workaround the Mac/VolID topic can have negative impact on other software on that machine.

[Walter Roberson]

Unfortunately, that article only implies that it is necessary to use MAC for Linux, and does not outright state that to be the case.