User guide

Chapter 3 - Managing Licenses from Multiple Vendors
Additional Considerations
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Disadvantage
• Careful planning must be given in combining license lines from multiple vendors into one
file, initially and over time.
Starting the License Server
Invoke the license manager daemon once on the server machine.
lmgrd -c combined_license_file
Criteria for Combining License Files
Your product’s license file(s) define the license server(s) by host name and hostid in the
SERVER line(s) in the license file. License files are candidates for combining under the
following conditions:
• The number of SERVER lines in each file is the same.
• The hostid field of each SERVER line in one file exactly matches the hostid field of each
SERVER line in the other file.
Some possible reasons license files may not be compatible are:
• License files are set up to run on different server machines, so hostids are different.
• One file is set up for single server (has only one SERVER line), the other is set up for a
three-server redundant license server (has multiple SERVER lines).
• Hostids for the same machine use different hostid types. For example, the SERVER line in
one license file uses INTERNET= for its hostid type and the other file uses the ethernet
MAC address for its hostid type.
If your license files are compatible as described above, then you have the option of combining
license files as summarized in Figure 3-4 and below in “How to Combine License Files.” Note
that you are not required to combine compatible license files. There is no performance or
system-load penalty for not combining the files.