To configure your machines to serve and receive licenses across the network, you must set up the license server machine ( Activating the software from a serial number and Installing a license), then set up each client computer that obtains a license from the server. (Servers can serve a license to themselves.)
(Windows) License server management options and license server confirmation
To set options and start the license server
(Windows) To confirm the license server operation
If the license server is up, the window displays:
<servername>:license server UP(MASTER)
where servername is the license server computer name. The text area should also list the products/features and the number of logins you have.
(Windows) To stop and start the license server
(Windows) Checking whether the license server is running
You can use the Windows Task Manager to tell whether the license server is running. Do the following steps on the license server computer.
To check license server status
If lmgrd.exe and sgiawd.exe are in the list of processes, the license server is up. If neither are in the list, the license server is down. If only one is in the list, the license server is partially up. In this case, restart the computer.
(Linux) License server management options and license server confirmation
(Linux) To start the license server
/etc/rc.d/init.d/
/etc/rc.d/init.d/aw_flexlm stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/aw_flexlm start
lmdown - Copyright (C) 1989-2004 Macrovision Corporation. All rights reserved. Shut down FLEXlm server on node servername 1 FLEXlm License Server shut down
lmdown - Copyright (C)2004 Macrovision Corporation. All rights reserved. Connection to "servername" failed: Cannot connect to license server(-15,12:146) Connection refused
where servername is the name of the server machine. You can ignore this error message.
License file = /var/flexlm/aw_servername.dat
FLEXlm Licensing daemon for Alias software: /usr/etc/lmgrd
(Linux) Additional troubleshooting steps
If you are having problems starting your licensing server, and stopping and then restarting your service as in the above instructions does not solve your problem, do the following:
killall lmgrd
/usr/aw/COM/etc/lmgrd -c <path to license file>
/usr/tmp/aw_flexlm.log
ps -aef | grep lmgrd
(The ps command may have different options in your shell.) This confirms that the daemon is now running.
For further information on troubleshooting networked license issues see Troubleshooting licensing problems (Linux, Mac OS X).
(Mac OS X) License server management options and license server confirmation
(Mac OS X) To start the license server
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 start the license server. You must authenticate sudo each time you use it. The following commands must be run by someone who has administrator privileges on the machine.
sudo /usr/aw/COM/bin/aw_flexlm start
If you’re using the Maya Terminal, you do not need to type the path.
sudo /usr/aw/COM/bin/lmstat -a -c /var/flexlm/aw_server.dat