A common cause for this error message is that you have changed non-user editable parts of your license file. For example, you may have a three server license and have commented out two of the three server lines. The only parts of the license you are allowed to change are the host name (not the host ID) and the license server daemon port numbers. If you are using FLEXnet v10.8 license server software, then you could also optionally add SORT= to the required license file INCREMENT lines. See the FLEXnet End Users Guide, which is supplied with your ARM development tools.

This message can also indicate that you are running an older version of the FLEXnet license server software that is not compatible with the format of the license file that you have installed. This can happen if you upgrade your development tools, for example from ADS 1.2 to RVDS 3.x.

Refer to the FAQs in the ARM technical support website, under Tool Licensing, for further information about what versions of license server software are compatible with what versions of the ARM software development tools.