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Chapter 7License Administration Tools 7
FLEXnet Licensing provides utilities for the license administrator to help manage the licensing
activities on the network. Always use the newest version of the utilities as possible; they are
available for download from www.macrovision.com.
Table 7-1 lists these utilities.
Table 7-1: License Administration Utilities
Utility Description
lmborrow
Supports license borrowing.
lmdiag
Diagnoses license checkout problems.
lmdown
Gracefully shuts down selected license daemons (both
lmgrd and
all vendor daemons) on the license server machine (or on all three
machines in the case of three-server redundant servers).
lmhostid
Reports the hostid of a system.
lminstall
Converts license files between different formats.
lmnewlog
Moves existing report log information to a new file name and starts
a new report log file with existing file name.
lmpath
Allows users direct control over license file path settings.
lmremove
Releases a hung license to the pool of free licenses.
lmreread
Causes the license daemon to reread the license file and start any
new vendor daemons.
lmstat
Displays the status of a license server system.
lmswitch
Controls debug log location and size.
lmswitchr
Switches the report log to a new file name.
lmver
Reports the FLEXnet Licensing version of a library or binary file.