User guide

Chapter 7 - License Administration Tools
lmborrow
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FLEXNET LICENSING VERSION NOTES
• VENDOR_LICENSE_FILE environment variable honored in utilities starting with v7.0
utilities.
•
-verbose option introduced in v6.0 of the utilities.
lmborrow
lmborrow supports borrowing of licenses that contain the BORROW attribute. It must be run
on the machine where licenses are borrowed. It is used to perform the following:
• Initiating borrowing by setting the borrow period
• Clearing the borrow period
• Determining borrow status
• Returning a borrowed license early
Initiating Borrowing
To initiate borrowing, the user sets the borrow period by running lmborrow from the command
line or through LMTOOLS:
lmborrow {vendor | all} enddate [time]
where:
For example:
lmborrow sampled 20-aug-2001 13:00
This has the effect of setting LM_BORROW with the borrow period in either the registry
(Windows) or in
$HOME/.flexlmborrow (UNIX).
vendor The vendor daemon name that serves the licenses to be
borrowed, or
all specifies all vendor daemons in that license
server system.
enddate
[time] Date the license is to be returned in dd-mmm-yyyy format.
time is optional and is specified in 24-hour format (hh:mm)
in the FLEXenabled application’s local time. If
time is
unspecified, the checkout lasts until the end of the given end
date.