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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Maya Installation Guide
- Quick Start to Maya Installation
- Maya Installation
- Stand-Alone Installation
- Network Administration and Deployment
- Distributing an Autodesk Program
- Install mental ray for Maya satellite
- Installation Troubleshooting
- General Installation Issues
- How can I check my graphics card driver to see if it needs to be updated?
- What is the text editor used for?
- What is the difference between a stand-alone license and a network license?
- What is the benefit of using a network licensed version of the software?
- How do I access my documentation?
- What is SAMreport-Lite?
- Deployment Issues
- Networking Issues
- Uninstall and Maintenance Issues
- General Installation Issues
- Glossary of Installation Terms
- Autodesk Licensing Guide
- Stand-Alone Licensing Guide
- Network Licensing Guide
- Network Licensing
- Plan Your Network Licensing
- Network License Manager
- Network License Tools
- Network Licensing FAQs
- What is the difference between a stand-alone license and a network license?
- What is the benefit of using a network licensed version of the software?
- How do I switch my license from stand-alone to network or network to stand-alone?
- How do I change the license server information I entered during the installation?
- What is Internet Explorer used for?
- Where can I find more information on troubleshooting network licensing?
- Glossary of Licensing Terms
- Index
The following three processes manage the distribution and availability of
licenses:
■ License manager daemon (lmgrd.exe). Handles the original contact with
the application, and then passes the connection to the vendor daemon.
The lmgrd.exe daemon is used to communicate with the vendor daemon
only; lmgrd.exe does not authenticate or dispense licenses, but rather passes
user requests to the vendor daemon. By using this approach, a single
lmgrd.exe daemon can be used by multiple software vendors to provide
license authentication. The lmgrd.exe daemon starts and restarts the vendor
daemons as needed.
■ Autodesk vendor daemon (adskflex.exe). Tracks the licenses that are checked
out and the workstations that are using them. Each software vendor has
a unique vendor daemon to manage vendor-specific licensing. As its name
implies, the adskflex.exe vendor daemon is specific to Autodesk products.
■ License file. A text file that has vendor-specific license information.
You can run only one Autodesk vendor daemon (adskflex.exe) on your license
server. This means that if you plan to serve licenses for multiple Autodesk
products that were purchased individually (not as part of a suite or bundle)
you must combine the license file contents for the products into one license
file.
For example, if you plan to serve Maya licenses from a machine that is already
serving 3ds max licenses, you must append the contents of your Maya license
file to the 3ds max license file. See
Example of a License File for Combined
Autodesk Product Versions
on page 91 for more information.
TIP You can use the following commands to query the status of your license server
and determine how many licenses you have in total, how many are in use, and to
verify that your license server is up and running:
■ (Windows) lmutil lmstat -a -c <license file> (where <license file>
is your license file name)
■ (Mac OS X)
/usr/local/flexnetserver/lmutil lmstat -a -c /var/flexlm/maya.lic
■ (Linux)
/opt/flexnetserver/lmutil lmstat -a -c /var/flexlm/maya.lic
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