LMtools seems to check out the licenses according to their logs, but they check back in immediately. Interesting huh? We tried changing the file different ways – it was so weird. Finally, we had someone in support use the license checker tool that they have and they found that we mixed up the hosted licenses w/ the server based licenses – doh! … so we just separated them and created new files and it was all set.
It turns out that the website when generating licenses can generate host based licenses instead of server based licenses. You can tell the difference by seeing:
VENDOR_STRING=licenseType=Host
opposed to:
VENDOR_STRING=licenseType=Server