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11 years ago

Setting up Floating License on Remote Server

Hi All, I have a floating license that my company got and I'm trying to have it be accessible to myself and others in my office. The host server where we have to store the license file is in T...
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11 years ago

When you configured the license.dat file, you should have specified a port on that machine and then started lmgrd.

- In my case, the top line in my license.dat file looks like so: "SERVER tolkien 3085A98F2C22 1800" (without the quotes)

On remote machines, you specify <portnum>@<remote_machine>:<pornum>@<remote_machine> for as many floating license servers as you have.

In my case, I have 4 or 8 (I forget which) license tokens on port 1800 on a machine I call "tolkien". For the machines that I want to run jobs on, I either set the LM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable to "1800@tolkien" (again, without the quotes) or I enter 1800@tolkien.

Hope that answers your questions...it's the same for any FlexLM licensed tools.

Cheers!

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