User guide

Chapter 6 - The License Server Manager
Starting the License Server Manager on UNIX Platforms
66 FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide
Starting the License Server Manager on UNIX Platforms
If any licenses in the license file are counted (license count > 0), the license server manager,
and hence the license server system, must be started before the FLEXenabled application can
be used.
The license server manager, lmgrd, is started either manually on the command line or
automatically at system startup. Both methods are discussed in the following sections.
-2 -p
Restricts usage of lmdown, lmreread, and lmremove
to a FLEXnet Licensing administrator who is by
default root. If there a UNIX group called “lmadmin,”
then use is restricted to only members of that group. If
root is not a member of this group, then root does not
have permission to use any of the above utilities. If
-2
-p
is used when starting lmgrd, no user on Windows
can shut down the license server system with
lmdown.
-local
Restricts the lmdown and lmreread commands to be
run only from the same machine where
lmgrd is
running.
-x lmdown
Disable the lmdown command (no user can run
lmdown). If lmdown is disabled, stop lmgrd via kill
pid
(UNIX) or stop the lmgrd and vendor daemon
processes through the Windows Task Manager or
Windows service. On UNIX, be sure the
kill
command does not have a
-9 argument.
-x lmremove
Disable the lmremove command (no user can run
lmremove).
-z
Run in foreground. The default behavior is to run in
the background. If
-l debug_log_path is present,
then no windows are used, but if no
-l argument
specified, separate windows are used for
lmgrd and
each vendor daemon.
-v
Displays lmgrd version number and copyright and
exits.
-help Displays usage information and exits.