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FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide 65
The License Manager Daemon 6
The license manager daemon, lmgrd, is one of two FLEXnet Licensing components which
comprise the license server (the other being the vendor daemon). It handles the initial contact
with FLEXenabled applications, passing the connection on to the appropriate vendor daemon.
The purpose of the license manager daemon,
lmgrd, is to:
• Start and maintain all the vendor daemons listed in the VENDOR lines of the license file.
• Refer application checkout (or other) requests to the correct vendor daemon.
A newer
lmgrd can be used with an older vendor daemon or FLEXenabled application, but a
newer vendor daemon or FLEXenabled application might not work properly with an older
lmgrd. Always use the newest version of lmgrd as possible; it is available for download from
www.macrovision.com.
lmgrd Command-Line Syntax
lmgrd is the main daemon for FLEXnet Licensing. When you invoke lmgrd, it looks for a
license file which contains information about vendors and features and starts those vendor
daemons.
Usage is:
lmgrd [-c license_file_list] [-l [+]debug_log_path]
[-2 -p] [-local] [-x lmdown] [-x lmremove] [-z ] [-v] [-help]
where:
-c license_file_list Use the specified license file(s).
-l [+]debug_log_path Write debugging information to file
debug_log_path. This option uses the letter l, not
the numeral 1. Prepending
debug_log_path with the
+ character appends logging entries. See Appendix G,
“The Debug Log File,” for more information on this
file.