Matlab license based on disk serial number

One of our user needs matlab license based on hard disk serial number. As a license admin, how can I generate the license for a hard disk serial number. Is this possible

Answer 1

[Fangjun Jiang]

If you are the license administrator of a group license, you can log in your Mathworks account and assign a license to this user. Then this user can "activate" his/her computer through MATLAB menu "Help, Licensing, Activate Software". The license is bounded with the computer with hard drive serial number, MAC address etc.

[Guru Achar]

I am the license administrator and I have assigned this license to the user. But I do not want user to activate. I want as an admin i only should have this option.

[Fangjun Jiang]

You as admin still has the full control. It just saves you some work. When the user activates, it sends the serial number and MAC address through internet to Mathworks and creates the license file. You can delete this activation (this computer), delete this user, etc.

If you insist doing it yourself, log in your Mathworks account, go to license center, select a license, click the "Install and Activate" tab, click "Activate a computer".

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

Hard disk serial numbers can be used only for individual licenses; see https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/101892-what-is-a-host-id-how-do-i-find-my-host-id-in-order-to-activate-my-license