User guide

Chapter 7 - License Administration Tools

lmpath

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lmpath

The lmpath utility allows direct control over FLEXnet license path settings. It is used to add

to, override, or get the current license path settings.

Usage is:

lmpath {-add | -override} {vendor | all} license_file_list

where:

Note lmpath works by setting the FLEXnet Licensing registry entry on Windows or

$HOME/.flexlmrc on UNIX.

To display the current license path settings, use:

lmpath -status

The following is displayed:

Known Vendors:

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demo: ./counted.lic:./uncounted.lic

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-add

Prepends license_file_list to the current license-file list

or creates the license-file list, if it doesn’t exist, initializing it

license_file_list. Duplicates are discarded.

-override

Overrides the existing license-file list with

license_file_list. If license_file_list is the

null string,

"", the specified list is deleted.

•

lmpath -override all ""

Deletes the value of LM_LICENSE_FILE.

•

lmpath -override vendor ""

Deletes the value of VENDOR_LICENSE_FILE.

vendor A vendor daemon name. Effects the value of

VENDOR_LICENSE_FILE.

all

Refers to all vendor daemons. Effects the value of

LM_LICENSE_FILE.

license_file_li

A colon-separated list on UNIX and a semi-colon-separated list

on Windows. If

license_file_list is the null string, "",

then the specified entry is deleted.