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Chapter 1 - Introduction and Overview
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20 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide
6. Start lmgrd (the license manager daemon) manually; you may also want to set it up to start
automatically at boot time. See Chapter 6, “The License Manager Daemon.”
These steps are discussed briefly below.
License Server Machine and Hostids
Before running any FLEXenabled application using floating licenses, you first need to set up
your license server machine (or machines). You must select which machine or machines to run
your license servers on and provide the hostids of those machines to your software vendor. For
pointers on selecting your server machine, see Chapter 4, “Selecting Server Machines.”
Get the hostid of the server machine by running FLEXnet Licensing’s
lmhostid utility on that
machine. If you don’t have
lmhostid, get the hostid of your machine by using the appropriate
command as described in Appendix A, “Hostids for FLEXnet Licensing-Supported Platforms.”
Using the hostid of your server machines, your vendor issues a license file to you that enables
the application software.
License Files and lmgrd
Once you have received a license file from your vendor, you must install it on your system and
start up the license manager daemon,
lmgrd.
• Your software vendor may have selected a default location for your license file. If not, use
any location you wish. For more details, see Chapter 2, “License File Basics.”
•To start
lmgrd automatically at boot time, you have to modify your system files (UNIX)
or use LMTOOLS (Windows). For details, see “License File Format Overview.”
Administration Tools
Macrovision supplies administration tools to your software vendor. The vendor usually
includes these utilities with their product. Download the latest version from
www.macrovision.com. See Chapter 7, “License Administration Tools,” for more information
about how to use the FLEXnet Licensing utilities.
Options Files
The options file controls various options such as reservations and timeouts of licenses. Most
users run without an options file, but you may decide you want to use some options. For
example, many administrators use an option to limit the quantity and content of logged
messages. To set up an options file, see Chapter 5, “The Options File.”
Notes for End Users
As a user of a FLEXenabled application, you may need to know a few things to use the system
effectively. The main things you need to know are:
• How to tell an application which license file to use
• How to query the system to find out who is using a license