User guide

Chapter 7 - License Administration Tools
lmdown
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lmdown
The lmdown utility allows for the graceful shutdown of selected license daemons (both lmgrd
and selected vendor daemons) on all machines.
Usage is:
lmdown -c license_file_list [-vendor vendor_daemon] [-q] [-all] [-force]
where:
If
lmdown encounters more than one server (for example if -c specifies a directory with many
*.lic files) and -all is not specified, a choice of license servers to shut down is presented.
Note On UNIX, do not use kill -9 to shut down the license servers. On Windows, if you must use
the Task Manager to kill the FLEXnet Licensing service, be sure to end the
lmgrd process first,
then all the vendor daemon processes.
When shutting down a three-server redundant license server, there is a one-minute delay before
the servers shut down.
lmdown shuts down all three license servers of a set of redundant license
servers. If you need to shut down one of a set of redundant license servers (not recommended
because you are left with two points of failure), you must kill both the
lmgrd and vendor
daemon processes on that license server machine.
You can protect the unauthorized execution of
lmdown when you start up the license manager
daemon,
lmgrd. Shutting down the servers causes users to lose their licenses.
-c
license_file_list
Use the specified license file(s). Note that specifying
-c
license_file_list
is always recommended with
lmdown
-vendor
vendor_daemon
Shut down only this vendor daemon.
lmgrd continues
running. Requires v6.0
lmdown and lmgrd.
-q
Don’t prompt or print a header. Otherwise lmdown asks
“Are you sure? [y/n]: .”
-all
If multiple servers are specified, automatically shuts
down all of them.
-q is implied with -all.
-force
If licenses are borrowed, lmdown runs only from the
machine where the license server is running, and then
only if the user adds
-force.