Setup guide

remote workstation or on the same workstation as your Creative Finishing application. Characteristics
of the Single License Server Model :
■ Of the two license server models, this configuration requires the least maintenance.
■ Because all license management takes place on a single server, you have just one point of administration
and one point of failure. On the other hand, if the single license server fails, the Autodesk product
cannot run until the server is back online.
■ Redundant license server model. In the redundant license server model, you use three Linux servers to
authenticate a single license file. One server acts as the master, while the other two provide backup if
the master server fails. With this configuration, licenses continue to be monitored and issued as long as
at least two servers are still functional. The license file on each server is the same. You install the license
server daemon on each server. Characteristicsof the Redundant License Server Model:
■ If one of the three servers fails, all licenses that are managed in the server pool are still available.
■ If more than one server fails, no licenses are available.
■ All three servers must reside on the same subnet and have reliable network communications. The
redundant server pool does not provide network fault tolerance.
■ If you reboot one of the license servers or restart one license server daemon you must also reboot/restart
all three license servers at the same time so the license servers are synchronized.
■ If one of the three servers is replaced, you must request a new license key from Autodesk Creative
Finishing Support
Workflow for Configuring a License Server
1 Select a license server. You can install a license server on your Creative Finishing workstation or any
other machine on your network. To see if you already have a license server running on a machine,
open a Terminal, login as root, and type: chkconfig --list | grep lic. For redundant license servers,
select three machines. All must be set to the same date and time.
2 Install the license server software (page 57) on all machines that will be servers.
3 Get the unique host ID of a license server (page 58) for all servers.
4 Request license codes (page 58).
5 Create the workstation license. License the workstation with a local or single remote license server
(page 58). Configure the workstation to use a set of redundant license servers (page 60) if using the
redundant server model.
6 If using one or more remote license servers: Create a license file for a remote license server (page 59).
7 Start the license server (page 61)(s).
8 To avoid conflicts with other applications or license servers in your facility, you may need to Change
the default port used by the license server (page 60)(s).
Install the license server software
The license server is a Linux daemon that provides concurrent licenses.
You can install the license server on a workstation or node in your network, or on any 64-bit system running
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5.3 with Workstation Option (64-bit), Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4,
Update 3 (64- bit), CentOS 5.3, or CentOS 4.3.
For a redundant network license server configuration, you must install the license server software on all
three workstations selected as license servers.
To install the license server, as root, run on the ./INSTALL_LICSERV from the software installation directory.
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