Installation guide

Licensing Components
License Management Daemons
FLEXnet uses a group of processes, called daemons, to control access to
software applications. These daemons run on a server in your network. In
this section, this server is referred to as your license server.
License Manager Daemon
The main daemon is the license manager daemon
(matiabroot\flexlm\lmgrd.exe). This daemon is responsible for managing
the initial communication between the licensed application and the vendor
daemons associated with each licensed application.
Vendor Daemon
Every vendor that uses FLEXnet to manage the licensing of its products must
supply a vendor daemon. The vendor daemon is responsible for keeping
track of how many license keys are available for a particular application
and for granting or denying access to the application, depending on the
current usage of these license keys. The MathWorks vendor daemon is
matiabroot\flexlm\mlm.exe.
Applications
When a user invokes MATLAB anywhere on the network, MATLAB
communicates with the license manager daemon on the license server. The
license manager forwards the request to the vendor daemon. The vendor
daemon checks out a license key for the product. This license key checkout is
transparent to MATLAB users.
The license manager program reads a License File to determine the numbers
of keys you have purchased for each product.
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