Copying Citrix licenses to another server

What happens if your citrix license server is unstable, or you need to create a citrix farm for testing purposes, or your license server dies? I had a citrix license server crash on a consulting job, and I had to figure out how to bring their environment back up. Luckily I had the data files on the dead server.  Below are the instructions on how to make another server a citrix licensing server.

1. Make sure the new server has the same name as the old server, the licenses were on (domain doesn’t matter, just the name). Caps make a difference.

2. Install the Citrix licensing service on the new server from the cd, update it to the same version of citrix licensing as was on the old server.

3. Copy the license_xxxx.lic file from C:\Program Files\Citrix\Licensing\MyFiles from the old server (or in my case pull it from backup), and place in it the same path on the new server.

4. Now go to regedit on the new server HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters.

5. Edit the Hostname and NV Hostname key to the old servers name (exactly, caps matters).

6. Reboot the new server and you should see the licenses.