Floating License Installation on Linux/Unix

Currently, Aldec provides customers with two types of licenses: node-locked and floating. To determine the type of license that you have, please do the following:

1. Open the license.dat file provided to you by Aldec

2. Look at the line that is located second from the top

   • If the line says License Type: Nodelocked, then you have a node-locked license

   • If the line says License Type: Floating, then you have a floating license

   

This document describes how to install a floating license.

To install the license, you will need to:

1. Download and install the license dongle driver

2. Download and install the License Server Manager

3. Configure and start the License Server

4. Setup the ALDEC_LICENSE_FILE environment variable

Download and install the license dongle driver

If your license is issued for a USB FLEXid keylock (the license file contains a reference to "flexid=10" in the server line), installing the drivers may be necessary. See https://www.aldec.com/en/support/resources/documentation/articles/2192 for details.

Aldec's License daemon package

The license daemon package is an archive of files that will be used to setup the license server. The archive contains the following files:

• ALDEC - Aldec's license daemon

• lmgrd - license manager daemon

• startlicense - shell script for starting the license server

• stoplicense - shell script for stopping the license server

• lmutil - FLEXlm utilities program

• fnp_LicAdmin.pdf - detailed document on setting up the license server; provided by Flexera Software

• fnp_GS-LF.pdf - describes the basic concepts of FLEXnet Licensing, license models, and concepts for designing license policies using License Files; provided by Flexera Software

The license daemons can be downloaded from the Aldec Downloads Page.

Software is available for the following distribution types:

• For Linux

  • Red Hat Enterprise - 32bits

  • Red Hat Enterprise - 64bits

• For Unix/SPARC

  • Solaris 8,9,10

Download and install the License Server Manager

1. Create a directory where you wish to install the license server and copy the aldec_platform_floating_license.tar.gz package to this directory

2. Unpack the package using the following command: gzip -cd aldec_platform_floating_license.tar.gz | tar xf -

3. Copy the license.dat file to the directory where you unpacked the server

4. Edit license.dat file. Change this_host on the SERVER line to the actual host name. * In the next line, if your license says VENDOR ALDEC ALDEC.EXE, please change it to VENDOR ALDEC ./ALDEC

5. Save and close the file

6. Start the license server

Configure and start the License Server

You can start the License Server two ways:

1. Manually

2. Automatically at system start up

Manually

• To start the license server type: ./startlicense

• To stop the license server, type: ./stoplicense

Automatically at System Start Up

Create a startup script that contains the following:

/<path_to_lmgrd>/lmgrd -c /<path_to_license>/license.dat -l /<path_to_tmp>/debug.log

Specifying the port for the License Server (Optional)

By default, the license server uses the port 27009. If you want to bind the license server to a specific port, you can specify the port number in the license.dat file. This may be convenient if several license servers run on the same machine.

Editing the license.dat file:

1. Open the license.dat file in your favorite editor and locate the line that says: SERVER <server_name><host_id><port_no>

2. Replace the port number at the end of the line

3. Save the file

4. Restart the license server

Specifying the location of the License File

The license server manager must be started before application can be used. The location of the license server is specified by the ALDEC_LICENSE_FILE system variable. To set up the workstation to use the network license use: ALDEC_LICENSE_FILE=<port>@<host> where:

• <port> is the TCP/IP port of the license server manager (default is 27009)

• <host> is the IP address or computer name of the license server manager

For three-server redundant server configurations, use a comma separated list of three port@host specifiers denoting the three-server redundant configuration. For example: port1@host1,port2@host2,port3@host3

If you receive a License Error:

Please see License Error: Cannot read data from License Server System. If you are still receiving a license error, please contact technical support.

Contact Technical Support

If you experience any problems with setting up the license server, locate the license server log file and contact Aldec's support team.

1. Locating the server log file:

   • If the server is started with the startlicense.bat file, the debug.log file will be created in the server directory.

2. Contacting Aldec's Support Team Submit your support ticket at: http://www.aldec.com/support.