Hack Flexlm License Manager User

Dec 19, 2012 - Make sure it is a system variable and not a user variable. From there I was able to create a registry hack file to put in the license servers I wanted. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software FLEXlm License Manager].

Scope This document relates to the FlexLM / FlexNet Publisher license manager, and discusses OpenLM’s capabilities in supporting this license manager. General FLEXlm software is a prominent license management solution that enables software vendors to impose restrictions on the number of software seats available to their customers. FLEXlm supports different licensing policies such as Floating (aka Concurrent) and Node Locked licenses. This type of software system is also referred to as DRM (Digital Rights Management) Solutions. FLEXlm was originally a joint development of GLOBEtrotter Software and Highland Software in 1988. GLOBEtrotter was then acquired by in 2000, which renamed the product FlexNet. In 2008 the company was sold to Acresso Software, and it’s name was changed to Flexera. The product was named, but is still widely referred to as FlexLM.

Flexnet License Manager operation The general structure of the Flexnet license manager is shown below: LICENSE SERVER MANAGER lmadmin or lmgrd FlexLM daemons are supplied either by the licensed FLEXenabled application publisher or by Flexera Software. Its job is to communicate with the application, and receive the license request from it.It then passes the request to the vendor daemon.

VENDOR DAEMON Created by the publisher, and is unique to each FlexEnabled application installed on the network. It is the vendor daemon’s job to process the license request and to either grant it or deny it, depending on the number of available licenses, and predefined license usage constraints. LICENSE FILE Created by your software supplier, and holds detailed license information such as the quantity and time extent of the license TRUSTED STORAGE Some publishers provide trusted storage as an encrypted alternative to using license files. DEBUG LOG AND REPORT LOG FlexNet logs written by the license server manager (lmadmin or lmgrd), typically accounting the license check-outs and check-ins, and license denials.

OPTION FILES Files created by license administrators to restrict license usage to specific users or user groups. Why do you need software license management?

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As is the case every few releases, Autodesk has incremented the FlexLM license manager version required to support its network licenses. The version ’11.14.1.3’,, is required to run the 2019 product year licenses. Ideate software licensing, including for the 2019 releases will work fine with any version past 11.9, including the newest one. Updating your Flexera LMTools is relatively straight-forward if you watch out for these common mistakes: Custom installation folder If you are using anything other than “C: Autodesk Network License Manager,” make sure to change the 3 paths on the ‘Config Services’ tab accordingly after installing the new LMTools. Multiple services on the same License manager When multiple services share the same LMTools install (e.g. Autodesk and Ideate Software) or LMTools only serves licenses for non-Autodesk software, make sure the secondary vendor daemon (e.g. ‘ideate.exe’) and log file (‘ideate.log’) are present in the installation folder after the update.