Managing Licenses from Multiple Vendors Chapter 3 Managing Licenses from Multiple Vendors Since more than 2500 vendors have chosen FLEX lm as their license manager, chances are good that you have to administer FLEX lm licenses from more than one vendor. 3.1Overview of Multiple License Management Strategies When you are running FLEX lm-licensed products from multiple vendors, you may need to take steps to prevent licensing conflicts during installation. There are several strategies to accomplish this, of which three are presented here. • One license server machine running one lmgrd, multiple vendor daemons each of which using its own license file. Alphasim Ware Aircraft there. License files share a common directory. These strategies are ordered from most to least independence among vendors.

Aug 24, 2011 Learn how to use FlexLM for Autodesk, Solidworks, SmartBIM, ArcGIS, and many other software vendors. I will explain how you can consolidate your license. Managing Licenses from Multiple Vendors Chapter 3. If you have two or more products whose licenses are intended for the same machine.

In the first option mentioned above, you have the most license server machines to monitor; in the third option you have only one server and one license file to administer. Each of these three strategies is described in detail in the following sections. Variations are mentioned in 3.2Multiple Machines In this scenario, each distinct vendor daemon and its associated license file or files is located on a separate server machine. Each machine serves licenses just for its vendor daemon and runs its own local copy of lmgrd. Crane A & Matten D 2010 Business Ethics 3rd Edition. Shows this arrangement. • If one machine goes down, licensing for the vendor’s product associated with that machine is down. Starting the License Server Invoke the license manager daemon on each machine: lmgrd -c server_machine_n_license_list Where server_machine_n_license_list is a license-file list as described in Each lmgrd starts the vendor daemon referred to in its license file(s).

3.3One Machine with Multiple License Servers In this model, each vendor daemon and its associated license file or files is served by its own lmgrd process, and everything is contained in one server machine. Depicts this scheme. Melvin Ayala La Diferencia. • For Server 3: lmgrd -c vendor_XYZ_license_dir_list Where vendor_nnn_license_list is a license-file list as described in Each lmgrd starts the vendor daemon referred to in its license file(s). 3.4One Machine with One License Server and Multiple License Files In this scenario, one lmgrd process runs on the server machine and serves one or more vendor daemons, each with one or more license files; the license files usually are in the same directory. The standard filename extension for license files is.lic. The number of vendor daemons is not limited by FLEX lm.

Illustrates this scenario. • Hostids for the same machine use different hostid types. For example, the SERVER line in one license file uses INTERNET= for its hostid type and the other file uses the ethernet MAC address for its hostid type. If your license files are compatible as described above, then you have the option of combining license files as summarized in and below in Note that you are not required to combine compatible license files.