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Locating The MAC Address

Informatica licenses are tied to the MAC address of the installation computer. To obtain the MAC address for licensing, the document provides instructions for different operating systems: on Windows use ipconfig /all, on Solaris use arp -a and grep hostname, on AIX use netstat -i and interpret addresses without leading 0s as having a leading 0, on Linux use ifconfig -a and the MAC address is preceded by HWaddr, and on HP-UX use lanscan and look under the Net-Interface column.

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Locating The MAC Address

Informatica licenses are tied to the MAC address of the installation computer. To obtain the MAC address for licensing, the document provides instructions for different operating systems: on Windows use ipconfig /all, on Solaris use arp -a and grep hostname, on AIX use netstat -i and interpret addresses without leading 0s as having a leading 0, on Linux use ifconfig -a and the MAC address is preceded by HWaddr, and on HP-UX use lanscan and look under the Net-Interface column.

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Locating the MAC Address

Informatica incorporates the Media Access Control (MAC) address of the intended installation
computer into the products licenses that it issues. Therefore, you must provide the Informatica
Global Customer Support with the appropriate MAC address as part of the licensing process. The
MAC address, also known as the ethernet or network address, is the hardware address of the
interface. It is a twelve-digit hexadecimal number usually written as sequences of pairs, such as:
00-04-23-9F-C3-44.
The process of obtaining the MAC address differs based on the operating system.

On Windows:
At the command prompt, enter:
ipconfig /all
The MAC address is the Physical Address entry returned. See below example

In the above example MAC Address = 00-15-58-C8-4D-22

On Solaris:
At the command prompt, enter:
/usr/sbin/arp -a | grep hostname
Where hostname is the result of uname -n. The MAC address is the Phys Addr entry returned.

On AIX:
At the command prompt, enter:
/bin/netstat -i
Note that AIX omits the leading 0 in the MAC address. For example, an address of
0.6.29.c5.3f.26 should be interpreted as 00:06:29:c5:3f:26.

On Linux:
At the command prompt, enter:
$ /sbin/ifconfig -a42 Appendix A: Locating the MAC Address
The MAC address appears on the same line as the device name. It is preceded by the label
HWaddr. In the example below, the device name is eth0 and the MAC address is
00:10:B5:E0:A3:71:
On HP-UX:
On Hewlett-Packard systems, the ethernet device is typically called lan0.
At the command prompt, enter
$ lanscan
and look up the relevant information. For example:

$ lanscan
Hardware Station Dev Hardware Net-Interface NM Encapsulation Mjr
Path Address lu State NameUnit State ID Methods Num
2.0.2 0x08000935C99D 0 UP lan0 UP 4 ETHER 52

Note: HP systems remove the colon from

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