Licensing mental ray 3.6.51

Important Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) machines must be licensed as a client from an SPM license server on any supported non-Leopard machine (Windows, Linux or Mac OS X 10.4 or earlier). To set up a Leopard machine as a client, see Setting up client machines.

You can license mental ray 3.6.51 by requesting a license. You must use the Autodesk mental ray activation form at www.autodesk.com/mentalrayactivation. In response, we send you an e-mail, fax, or mail containing the license information.

• See Obtaining a license.

Once you receive the license, you save the license in a temporary file, then run the License mental ray program to insert the license into the permanent license file.

• See Installing a license.

Using sudo

In the following section, you're going to use sudo -the special Mac OS X command that executes other commands with the highest level of user permissions-to execute certain commands as root. You must authenticate sudo each time you use it. The following commands must be run by someone who has administrator privileges on the machine.

Obtaining a license

You must request a license from Autodesk, but first you must attach the dongle. Some older dongles require you to push a lever to get power to the dongle.

To attach the dongle

1. Attach the dongle to any available USB port on your system.
2. (On some models.) Push the lever on the dongle so that it makes contact with the battery.

To obtain a license

1. After you have installed the mental ray and SPM software, log in to an account with administrator privileges.
2. Open a Terminal window and type:

sudo /var/spm/spm_key_ib -c

Enter the password when prompted.

Tip Reboot your computer with the dongle attached if you get an error.

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1. Read and record your machine information.
2. Get a license by launching your Internet browser and completing the online mental ray activation form at www.autodesk.com/mentalrayactivation

Installing a license

For floating licenses, perform these steps on the machine that will run the license server process.

To install a mental ray license

1. You should have already obtained a license from Autodesk. If not, refer to Obtaining a license.
2. Save the license file as a text file in an accessible location; for example, my_license .
3. Log in to Mac OS X using an account with administrative access.
4. In a Terminal window, type:

sudo /var/spm/spm_key_ib -x <path_to_license_file>/my_license

5. Continue with Additional setup for floating licenses.

Additional setup for floating licenses

After installing a floating license, we recommend that you restart/start the license server machine.

To start the SPM license server, use the following command:

sudo SystemStarter -vd start mi-spm

(For more information on client machines, see Setting up client machines.)

Once you have restarted, verify the license server installation by typing:

sudo /var/spm/spmstat -KD

You should see a message that looks like this:

SPM-daemon on '127.0.0.1':
License from Autodesk:
License name version lic# used beg_date end_date cpu# type

The information in the message should be consistent with what you purchased from Autodesk.

For more information about spmstat, type /var/spm/spmstat -h .

For systems that will be serving licenses, but not running mental ray, the licensing setup is complete. Continue with Setting up client machines for all other machines.