HP Micro Focus Object COBOL/UX Release Notes for Version B.12.35

36 Chapter 3
License Management with FLEXlm and COBOL
Installing and Setting Up the FLEXlm License Manager
Creating or Updating the license.dat File
This section describes adding COBOL license file entries to the
license.dat file and some common configurations. For more complex
configurations, please consult the appropriate GLOBEtrotter FLEXlm
documentation at their website:
http://www.globetrotter.com
The license.dat file must be placed on all license servers and be made
available on all other computers that intend to run HP Micro Focus
Object COBOL Developer Suite. The license server computers use
license.dat to build the pool of licenses for users to checkout. All
other computers use license.dat as a means of locating the license
server(s) to request licenses.
How to Install into an Existing license.dat File
If you are currently using FLEXlm on the server that you also intend to
serve COBOL, do the following:
1. Add the DAEMON and INCREMENT lines from your License File
Certificate into the existing license.dat file. Ensure that the
DAEMON line precedes any INCREMENT lines. Do not add
SERVER lines to your license.dat file (see Note below).
NOTE You can only add to an existing license.dat file if
• The number of SERVER lines provided with your HP Micro Focus
Object COBOL/UX licenses is the same as the number of SERVER
lines in your existing license.dat file.
• The same hostids appear on the corresponding SERVER lines in
each file.
2. If you did not create or modify an options file for the hpcuplangs
vendor daemon, run
$ /usr/local/flexlm/bin/lmreread
This causes lmgrd to re-read the changed license.dat file and
update other lmgrd processes on the network.
After you have done this, you can run the following to verify that the
license servers have received the new license information: