The license path can be the location of the actual “thinkbox.lic” file, or for floating licensing it would be the location of the server, example 27000 change takes effect on edit, so you can edit the license path value registry until the client successfully checks out a license. Name the new string either THINKBOX_LICENSE_FILE or LM_LICENSE_FILE, and change its value to the license path for the client. Right click on ‘FLEXlm License Manager’ and choose “New”, then “String Value”.
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#FLEXLM LICENSE SERVER INSTALL#
In the new window, navigate to one of the following locations: A Fresh Install of the Flexlm License Server on Windows SERVER LINE. To open the registry editor, press the Windows key on the keyboard and type “regedit.exe”, then press enter to select. We recommend the machine-wide setting to ease administration. One can be set for the entire machine, and the other can be for just the current user. To set up a license server, you first install the license. Within the Windows Registry, there are two more locations similar to the environment variables. For network installations MathWorks uses FlexNet Publisher, a license manager from Revenera.
#FLEXLM LICENSE SERVER HOW TO#
Let’s take a look at how to set these variables on the different operating systems we support. flexlmrc changes should take effect immediately. Note that any of changes made to environment variables will require a restart of the client application, the host application in the case of plugins, or restarting the whole machine in the case of Deadline. It is also possible to specify multiple of each, separated by semi-colons on Windows and colons on OS X or Linux. 27001 or a full path to a license file (eg. This can either be a remote host specified as port (eg. The values for these variables are what Flexera calls the ‘license path’ for the client applications. The first takes precedence over the second, while LM_LICENSE_FILE can be used by any flex-enabled application.
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In any of these three locations you can use one or both key names for the path, either THINKBOX_LICENSE_FILE or LM_LICENSE_FILE. To do this you can set an environment variable, Linux rc file or Windows registry key. In addition to setting a license file location in the client application interfaces, you can also direct them to the license server or node-locked file.