User guide

Chapter 3 - Managing Licenses from Multiple Vendors
Managing Multiple License Files
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• Output from all vendor daemons goes into one common debug log unless separate debug
logs are specified with DEBUGLOG in each vendor’s options file. Having one common
debug log makes it harder to debug a single vendor daemon’s problem.
• Maximizes licensing load to one machine and one
lmgrd process.
Starting the License Server System
Invoke the license server manager once on the server machine.
lmgrd -c common_license_directory
lmgrd processes all files with the .lic extension in common_license_directory and
starts all vendor daemons referred to in those files; so, there is no need to enumerate each
license file name on the
lmgrd command line.
See Also
• “Managing Multiple License Files”
• “Capturing Debug Log Output for a Particular Vendor Daemon”
FLEXNET LICENSING VERSION NOTES
• Ability for one lmgrd to process multiple license files introduced in v6.0 lmgrd.
Managing Multiple License Files
You can manage multiple license files that are on the same server machine via a license-file list.
A license-file list is specified two ways:
• By using the
-c option to lmgrd
lmgrd -c license_file_list [other lmgrd options]
• By defining the LM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable within the scope of the lmgrd
process’ environment.
Install the license files in convenient locations on the server machine and then define the
license_file_list.
Wherever license_file_list is specified it consists of a list of one or more of the
following components:
• the full path to the license file
• a directory containing one or more license files with a
.lic extension
•a
port@host setting, where port and host are the TCP/IP port number and host name
from the SERVER line in the license file. Alternatively, use the shortcut specification,
@host, if the license file SERVER line uses a default TCP/IP port or specifies a port in the
default port range (27000-27009).