ARM® FLEXlm License Management Guide v4.0
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4.2. Installing the server license

You will normally retrieve your license yourself from the ARM web licensing portal (see ARM web licensing portal for more information).

Before you can use this license file, you must make some changes:

  1. Copy the license file to a known location on the server(s). A suitable place would be in the same directory as your license server software. The suggested file name is license.dat, and this name is used throughout this document to refer to the license file. If you wish to call the file something else, substitute your file name for license.dat.

  2. Replace this_host in the license file with the corresponding server name. If you are using a triple server arrangement, replace this_host, this_host2 and this_host3 with the server names that match the host IDs. The first server listed is the master.

  3. Add the port number after the host ID. Normally this port number will be 8224. If you do not define a port, the operating system will choose one in the range from 27000 to 27009. This number may change if the server is rebooted.

    Note

    If the host ID in the license file is incorrect or if the server has changed, you must apply to ARM Limited for a new license file.

For example, if the web-generated license file contained the following line:

SERVER this_host 001002A34BC5

and you wanted to use port number 8224 on your license server called “synchrotron”, you would need to change the line to:

SERVER synchrotron 001002A34BC5 8224

You may not edit anything in the license file other than the server name and port number, otherwise it will not work. You must also ensure that, if you are adding this license to a license server that is already used for licensing ARM development tools, the license utilities are upgraded to the latest version of the FLEXlm tools provided by the various ARM tools that you have.

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