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Locating the HWID with direct hard drive access only

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Duncan Miller

Is the HWID located in a file on the hard drive of the NX Witness system? I need to recover the license keys of a failed system as it will no longer boot. The system was set-up originally on Ubuntu. Any recommendations would be appreciated.

 

--Duncan

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  • Norman
    • Network Optix team

    Hi Duncan Miller,

    Sure. Head to the following location: 

    /opt/networkoptix/mediaserver/var/log

    Here you should find a file called: hw_log.log

    This file contains the hwid and can be revealed via the following command: 

    cat hw_log.log|grep HWID
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  • Duncan Miller

    Is this the same hardware ID the license are tied to? When I submitted it for license key deactivation they said it should be 34 characters long but this is 32. 

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  • Norman
    • Network Optix team

    Hi Duncan Miller,

    You should have got a whole list of HWID, and these should be fine for license deactivation.

    Can you share the output of the latest entry of the following command:

    cat hw_log.log|grep HWID

    It should look like this: 

    2021-01-11 08:45:35.168 1873 INFO HWID: Hardware IDs: ["74be16979710d4c4e7c6647856088456", "017082123c6c1d691d483bb321e1627294", "01d74c8bb8bb83d5a37a8edb95ddbf7213", "0174368dc7918a9562ce69a7be41e9c601", "01554a1821ce10bfe890d6abf5869cb159", "027082123c6c1d691d483bb321e1627294", "02d74c8bb8bb83d5a37a8edb95ddbf7213", "0274368dc7918a9562ce69a7be41e9c601", "02554a1821ce10bfe890d6abf5869cb159", "03302ea59a794e09576613c241b877d6c7", "0336f06802ea5add59df984ee21c712beb", "033fc90ef047d12c65a7693e6c13418559", "030c90bedac26a911455adf6df25856310", "04dbffa30caca3e0b657fb8864bbbc7aac", "04ae307a9b947ba88d8c6ae07fd45a58ec", "04e67c5889b65dd75a7d87975270929d93", "0462ea8fa51d8d4cb3276c64dd1549f544", "04840510406ec610dd8aa620e2b536e8ac", "04d1c71e17c75cf95516382cfcc360c63e", "049a9325e2ce7de01c685a05582316f3fe", "04792eb9fdf79b6c52e7d66d9a1175b2b3", "04d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e", "0593e2a086a232ab2171998be9cc7d2693", "05ca96b0e4953d5a0a91143b0a2b97ec51", "056368e8ca2055ffb94f23841f3cac561f", "05ff72f8983067268587a61b2e96fabc91", "0566f163ec64e0e5b2aaf6c8af52fb1a81", "0596486056d5bbb783388d1476bec63b4d", "058b9c4cf56443027e9b00cbc80d1a1672", "05b9fdfe648022ab0710574f643484fb4a", "05d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e"]

    With this output I should be able to provide you the HWID you need for the license deactivation. Do you happen to know how many license keys or channels are bound to this key?

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  • Norman
    • Network Optix team

    We have not heard back from you in a while, so we are going to assume your question has been answered and set this topic to 'Answered'.

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