User guide

Chapter 1 - Introduction and Overview

FLEXnet Licensing Components

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End-User Administration Options File

The end-user administration options file allows the end-user license administrator to control

various operating parameters of FLEXnet Licensing that remain within the license rights

granted to them by the vendor. Specifically, the license administrator can:

• Allow the use of features

• Deny the use of features

• Reserve licenses

• Restrict the number of licenses available

• Control the amount of debugging information logged about license usage

• Enable a report log file

See Chapter 5, “The Options File.” for details on how to create this file.

Report Log File

The report log file contains feature usage information and is generated by the vendor daemon.

Use Macrovision's software license administration solution, FLEXnet Manager, to gain

exceptional visibility into license usage data and to create insightful reports on critical

information like license availability and usage. See Appendix F, “The Report Log File,” details

regarding this file.

FLEXnet Licensing Components Shipped by Your Vendor

This section provides a list of FLEXnet Licensing components that may be supplied to you by

your software vendor along with the FLEXenabled application. Table 1-1 provides a general

list and may differ from that actually supplied. Your vendor is the definitive source for the list

of FLEXnet Licensing components that are shipped.

Table 1-1: FLEXnet Licensing Components for End-User Distribution

Component Description

Windows and UNIX Common Components

lmgrd.exe

lmgrd

(UNIX)

Required for served license models. The license

server manager and vendor daemons, where vendor

is the name of your vendor.

vendor

.exe

vendor

(UNIX)

lmutil.exe

lmutil

(UNIX)

Optional component. FLEXnet Licensing utilities

program. Used for license server system

management and administration. Also available from