It can be run manually as an administrator in the commandline. Note the location where the network license manager is installed and then uninstall the network license manager by entering the standard mac os x commands, for example, rm. Modelsim license server mentor graphics communities. Jul 28, 2009 checking the status of remote license servers posted on july 28, 2009 by xsisupport one of the maya support agents forwarded a case to me last friday. Some of you may know the commercial flexnet licencing application macrovision. How can i see who is currently using a floating network license. Install the autodesk network license manager start the network license server query the license server status install the autodesk network license manager unzip the downloaded file into a folder on the server. Monitoring floating license use documentation safe software. Mac osx terminal commandline tips and tricks index. As an alternative, you could create a network share for the license manager log file. However, when access to the licensing software is not available, you can use system commands to get the hostid. The module parses the output of lmstat and returns an easytouse data structure.
You can use the following commands to verify that a license server is up and running, and to determine how many licenses it has in total, and how many are in use. Floating license installation and flexlm troubleshooting debug lily shi january 10, 2017 19. Flexnetlmutil convenient oointerface for flexnet license. Brent, suspect that is still going to be a manifestation of delay in closing the esrilicenseuse. Floating license installation and flexlm troubleshooting debug. This log file is for debugging purposes, but it does display license checkout information. Normally, endusers would not use lmutil directly, they would use the individual utility programs which are either a copy or a link to lmutil. To query the license server status search autodesk. This document details the steps necessary to release the hung license using the lmremove command. For information about using the lmutil program, see using the flexnet command line utilities lmutil. How do i monitor the usage number of users of flexnet licenses or keys for matlab and the toolboxes. Its a clientserver based solution for managing the usage of socalled flexnetenabled applications. We are now shipping with our software flexlm version 11.
If you are on windows, you can obtain the host id by issuing the following command at a cmd shell prompt like so. Determining the hostid for licensing mentor graphics. If a physical or remote login access to the license manager server cannot be obtained, a user account with administrative rights on that machine can use the following steps to release a hung license from a remote license manager server. Logged in user, ive tried lmutillmstat etc and cant get it. How can i monitor flexlmlizenzdienste paessler knowledge. Is there a way for licenses to be monitored from the client machine instead of the server. Today, were going to go over some great interface and user tweaks you can execute to customize your mac. Im sure im missing something but the help switches are not very useful with the suggested syntax for commands. Logged in user, ive tried lmutillmstat etc and cant get. You can keep track of usage, health of license servers, get alerted when licenses are due to expire, and capture usage history. Hostname of computer that the license was checked out on.
Navigate to the networklicensemanager folder on your product install media or download the latest version of the autodesk network license manager for linux. Using lmutil lmstat to check license mgr v10 geonet. How do i reread a license file from the command line. License status reads the current status of flexlm flexnet licenses using lmutil s lmstat command and presents it in a more usable table format. Using the flexnet utilities graphical user interface lmtools flexnet provides a graphical user interface gui, called lmtools. This page covers information general to all of our flexlm services, which presently includes matlab, simics and maple version 12 onwards amongst others. Instructions provided describe how to remove a hung license from a remote license manager server. Occasionally a license may not be checked back into the pool of available licenses. Checking the status of remote license servers exsi. On windows systems, the lmutil command form of the commands are available. Moe 2014 is not compatible with the license manager from moe 2012 and earlier versions.
Here, 1718 is the default port, and lcsrv the host name of the license manager. So, for all the beginners out there, here is my pick of the top. It seems to be an issue of parenthesis and having spaces in the commands. Lmutil is used by lmtools to run license manager commands related to status checks and borrowing. Using lmutil lmstat to check license mgr v10 geonet, the esri. On the mac, the terminal app is kinda buried, probably perhaps because those who use a macos laptop just for social media probably wont need a terminal. However, if the os crashes and the license is not released, follow these steps to release the license. At the command prompt enter lmutil lmstat a c license. The lmtools gui provides access to the same set of tools as the lmutil command and displays the results returned in an integrated display window. How to reread license file from command line for network license manager. Alternatively, the lmutil lmdiag or lmutil lmstat commands can be used from a command shell to show all flex licenses available in a given directory or running on a given server. If known, you can also use the mac address of the license server. Logged in user, ive tried lmutillmstat etc and cant get it to work.
Open a terminal and run this command to check the license server status. The exinstal and exinstrl commands checks the license file format and license codes to determine whether everything is consistent. What im getting is information for the other flexlm product and not autocad. I have written a python program to poll the flexlm daemons every few mintues using lmutil lmstat a.
Flexlm provides license management utilities that you can use to monitor the license manager. Open a dos command prompt window and enter the lmutil command, specifying the name of the lmstat utility. If you have problems running license statistics with lmutil v11. How can i force the license server to release the license. Diagnose mac networking problems with these three commands. Use lmtools config services to make sure use services and start server at power up are checked. With it, instead of pointing and clicking, you type your commands and your mac does your bidding.
License status is an alternative to the lmtools server status tab. Is there a way for licenses to be monitored from the. Flexnetlmutil is a small wrapper around the flexnet license server utility lmutil, currently implementing the subfunctions lmstat and lmremove. Mar 22, 2017 flexnetlmutil convenient oointerface for flexnet license server utility lmutil. If you do not specify a license file, lmutil lmstat will query all files in its folder ending in. You will need to decide how frequently you take a license usage snapshot and balance that against how much cpu time is needed to collect those data. Oct 08, 2019 the output of lmstat a linux or lmutil lmstat a windows operating system, architecture, kernel, glibc, and any service packs installed on the system on which the intel software license manager server is installed. On the arm information centre i found a page with a couple of perl scripts for parsing the output of lmutil.
Check the license server nlm licensing guide arnold renderer. Using the flexnet utilities graphical user interface lmtools. Is there a way for licenses to be monitored from the client machine. Licensing how can i see what licenses are available on a server or on a local machine. The intel software license manager server file name that you downloaded and installed. To update flexnet on a mac os x or linux license server. I have another flexlm product on my server where the autocad license is. I would like to monitor the usage number of users of license keys for matlab and.
Installing the network license manager on mac os x network. The lmstat command queries the license server for a list of licenses that are in the license pool. If you are currently serving moe licenses using a license manager application from moe 2012 or earlier, you must disable the old license manager and use the new one, otherwise moe 2014 will not start properly. Apr 03, 2012 if the application crashes, the license is returned correctly. The lmstat command displays only one use of the license, even if. Start the autodesk network license manager service by entering the following string in terminal. Note that the license server log is not intended to be used for usage reporting, and this is stated in the log header text. Visit autodesk network license manager for mac os x and download the latest version for your os.
See my earlier 19 nov 2010 post in this thread for details and work around. To find out how many floating license seats are in use at a given point of time, you should run the command. The lmstat function will display the following information. Sep 20, 2012 1 to check current license usage, you can use the lmstat function if the network license manager is running linux or mac os x. The lmstat command queries the license server for a list of licenses that are in the. We have installed pb in the new pc and point the license to our sysam server. But the powerbuilder in the new pc showing that we are in grace period. Is there a way for licenses to be monitored from the client.
The exinstal command checks the license file format and license codes to determine whether everything is consistent. After loading the flexlm zip file, you will need to unzip it to an empty folder c. Servers are rarely rebooted but if the license server is rebooted you want to be sure that the license server is restarted so that your clients can continue to check out licenses. How do i monitor the usage of license keys for matlab and. If you want to check the current usage, the best way is to use the lmstat function. Apr 03, 2020 lmstat displays the status of a license server. Floating license installation and flexlm troubleshooting. Installing the network license manager on linux network. On unix, linux, mac, you can log into the server and run the following command. How can i see who is currently using a floating network. To avoid text wrapping, cursor on the right edge to expand the.
License manager commands for license servers on unix. Knowing some basic terminal commands can really enhance your experience of os x. Information can be optionally be qualified by specific server nodes, vendor daemons, or features. The output from the lmstat utility will look similar to this. If the application crashes, the license is returned correctly. One of the maya support agents forwarded a case to me last friday. In macos catalina the default shell will change to zsh and in time this page will be updated to include that. You can also check the usage of a specific autodesk product by specifying the feature code of that product. You can see this information in the license file on the first line as server licsrv 123456789 1718. Hi folks, we are using served license for our powerbuilder 12. The final section of this appendix reprints the man pages of the several license manager user commands, courtesy of globetrotter software, inc. These utilities are available at the command line or through a graphical user interface. Start the terminal application and run these commands. If these commands do not work on a windows license server machine, it may be necessary to copy variations of the following dll libraries from another windows workstation into the folder that contains the flexnet binaries and the license file.