Quartus/ModelSIM FlexLM Licensing Error -5,147: No Such Feature

Hi,

Can you provide the following:

1. Debug.log file
2. Screen shot of error message
3. Your machine OS
4. Your Quartus version
5. License.dat file

I'll send you a private message too so you can send the files there for confidentiality purposes.

Thanks,

Best regards,

Nurina

Nurina,

PM has been sent.

Thanks

Hi Paul,

Thanks for providing the items I requested. Can you perform the following checks:

1. Make sure the NIC ID is from a physical NIC card, not virtual ID.
2. Make sure the daemon executable paths are correctly set. From the licensing manual it should be under: "<installation-directory>\bin64\alterad.exe" which is different from your license file. Look for the daemon files in your server and set it to that.
3. Is your license file saved in this path: "<drive>:\flexlm" If not, please save it there as it is the preferred location.
4. Did you follow all the steps to set up floating license? Available here at section 4.3.5: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdfs/literature/manual/quartus_install.pdf#...
5. Could you try restarting or performing a full reboot of your server?

Remember that each time you make changes in your license file you need to restart your server.

Regards,

Nurina

Nurina,

Thank you.

1. The NIC ID is correct or none of the licences would be working
2. The daemon paths are correct...
   1. This is evident in the logs as the diagnostics file reports the daemon is running but the licences/feature cannot be checked out
3. We do not use the default path; however we tried for the sake of testing with no change in the results
   If this was an issue none of the licences would be working.
4. The server has been restarted with no success.
   Being a production server with more than just Quartus/ModelSim licences outages need to be planned.
   We stop and start the service between any licence file changes. This is ample for the service to reread and reload the licence file.

As can be seen in the diagnostics file the daemons are running correctly and the issue relates to the use of specific licences.

Cheers,

Paul

Paul,

Can you run the following command:

./lmutil.exe lmstat -a -c Quartus_II_license_Braema_60dayEval.dat

and then share with me the result.

Thanks.

Regards,

Nurina

PM has been sent. thanks.

Thanks, Paul. I've replied your PM.

Can you please provide the files I've requested?

Nurina

Case has been resolved by customer. Issue was solved by enabling firewall to open the ports for the mgcld daemon.

With that, I now transition this thread to community support. If you have a new question, feel free to open a new thread to get the support from Intel experts. Otherwise, the community users will continue to help you on this thread. Thank you.

Regards,
Nurina

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Hi,

I'm experiencing the same issue. I checked all the hints above, but cannot checkout the Questa license:

"intelqsim" v2024.01, vendor: mgcld, expiry: 31-oct-2023
vendor_string: 057D5A07
License server: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
floating license starts: 2-aug-2023, expires: 31-oct-2023

This license cannot be checked out because:
No such feature exists.
Feature: intelqsim
License path: 27000@XXXXXXXX;
FlexNet Licensing error:-5,147

Running

lmutil lmstat -c 27000@localhost -a

on the server gives:

mgcld: UP v11.16.4
Feature usage info:
Users of mgcvipae: (Total of 6 licenses issued; Total of 0 licenses in use)
Users of mgcvipaeaxi: (Total of 6 licenses issued; Total of 0 licenses in use)
Users of mgcvipaeaxi4: (Total of 6 licenses issued; Total of 0 licenses in use)
Users of intelqsim: (Total of 6 licenses issued; Total of 0 licenses in use)

Further I tested the TCP connection with

Test-NetConnection <YOUR_SERVER> -Port <your_port>

for all ports (lmgrd alterad mglcd) seem to allow a TCP connection from the client side.

Any further suggestions?

Thanks!