Autodesk SAMREPORT-LITE 2006 User Manual

Autodesk® Network License Manager Jimmy Bergmark – JTB World This class is for anyone who wants to learn how to manage network licenses. You will lea

Autodesk® Network License Manager 10 Autodesk Product Support strongly recommends the distributed server configuration for most applications and I ag

Autodesk® Network License Manager 11 For full details see the requirements for the software to be used as described in the Autodesk’s documentation o

Autodesk® Network License Manager 12 The Host ID also known as MAC Address or Ethernet Address can be obtained in two ways. Using ipconfig /all or LM

Autodesk® Network License Manager 13 2. In the LMTOOLS utility, click the Systems Settings tab. 3. Locate the Computer/Hostname box. Copy the host

Autodesk® Network License Manager 14 1. Click Start > All Programs > Autodesk > Network License Manager > LMTOOLS Utility or run lmtools

Autodesk® Network License Manager 15 4. In the Service Name list, select the service name you want to use to manage licenses. By default, the servic

Autodesk® Network License Manager 16 8. To run lmgrd.exe as a service, select Use Services. 9. To start lmgrd.exe automatically when the system sta

Autodesk® Network License Manager 17 12. Click the Server Status tab and click on Perform Status Enquiry to ensure that it’s working. 13. Close LMTO

Autodesk® Network License Manager 18 Manage network licenses How Network License Manager is Working The following three things manage the distributio

Autodesk® Network License Manager 19 FlexNet Configuration Tools FlexNet provides two administrative utilities for managing the license server. Thes

Autodesk® Network License Manager 2 Table of Contents Learning Objectives ...

Autodesk® Network License Manager 20 Update FlexNet from a Previous Version Normally with a new release of Autodesk products it is required to upgrad

Autodesk® Network License Manager 21 This procedure can be performed without affecting users who are running the software, provided the entire proced

Autodesk® Network License Manager 22 Create an Options File Open a text editor, enter the parameters you want, and then save the document as a file n

Autodesk® Network License Manager 23 Set Up License Timeout License timeout is set in the options file to determine how long a product session can be

Autodesk® Network License Manager 24 Unfortunately the Automatic save functionality triggers a command activity. Thus it can take longer time than th

Autodesk® Network License Manager 25 Defining Groups of Users or Computers Defines a group of users for use in INCLUDE, INCLUDEALL, INCLUDE_ENTITLEME

Autodesk® Network License Manager 26 Because network licenses are more expensive than single licenses make sure users don’t borrow licenses just to b

Autodesk® Network License Manager 27 EXCLUDE_BORROW 85730ACD_2012_0F USER smithj EXCLUDE_BORROW 85730ACD_2012_0F HOST computer1 EXCLUDE_BORROW 85730A

Autodesk® Network License Manager 28 Restrict maximum license usage You can limit usage of specific licenses for a user, computer, group of users or

Autodesk® Network License Manager 29 INCLUDE 85730ACD_2012_0F USER smithj INCLUDE 85730ACD_2012_0F HOST computer1 INCLUDE 85730ACD_2012_0F GROUP Engi

Autodesk® Network License Manager 3 Limiting borrowing ...

Autodesk® Network License Manager 30 Using an IP address in place of server hostname See Knowledge Base document TS1053533. Network License File desc

Autodesk® Network License Manager 31 SUPERSEDE Replacement for any existing Increment line of the same feature code from any license files on the s

Autodesk® Network License Manager 32 License File Examples Here is an example of a completed license file for a single or distributed license server

Autodesk® Network License Manager 33 The license file might be corrupted if edited in a non-ASCII editor like Wordpad or Word. Use Notepad. Knowledg

Autodesk® Network License Manager 34 CD68 1D77 27F8 8555 9CF7 DEDD 9380" INCREMENT SERIES_1 adskflex 1.000 permanent 100 \ VENDOR_STRI

Autodesk® Network License Manager 35 6916 70B1 9E80 AB07 1644" PACKAGE 64800INVPRO_F adskflex 1.000 \ COMPONENTS="59600INVPRO_2009

Autodesk® Network License Manager 36 accordingly. If you fail to include PLIST increments, certain Autodesk products may not be able to acquire a net

Autodesk® Network License Manager 37 Dynamic Licensing in Inventor Products Inventor always tries to start with the most economical license using the

Autodesk® Network License Manager 38 Good example: ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE=27000@server1;27000@server2 See Knowledge Base documents TS37913, TS71384, T

Autodesk® Network License Manager 39 Troubleshoot network license issues Windows Services Console and Task Manager The vendor daemon service can be

Autodesk® Network License Manager 4 Network licenses are not released after exiting product ... 46 Ho

Autodesk® Network License Manager 40 2. Application generates a request for a license 3. Server resolution occurs 4. LMGRD receives request 5. LM

Autodesk® Network License Manager 41 In this row we can see that the FlexNet version is 11.9. 11:41:26 (lmgrd) FLEXnet Licensing (v11.9.0.0 build 87

Autodesk® Network License Manager 42 11:41:28 (adskflex) 64300ACD_F (consisting of: 85730ACD_2012_0F 11:41:28 (adskflex) 85536ACD_2011_0F 71200AC

Autodesk® Network License Manager 43 In some cases when a user is denied a license there is no record of it in the FlexNet debug log. The user might

Autodesk® Network License Manager 44 nnn) Retrying socket bind (address in use) The license servers try to bind their sockets for approximately six m

Autodesk® Network License Manager 45 Row showing the number of issued and in use licenses for a feature Users of 85730ACD_2012_0F: (Total of 1 li

Autodesk® Network License Manager 46 Check Windows Event Viewer, if there is an error message similar to “FLEXlm service failed to start. Cannot find

Autodesk® Network License Manager 47 Error when network version of software is started: Error [1.5.-12] Because of port filtering done at the client

Autodesk® Network License Manager 48  License Manager is not started  Autodesk Network License Manager version is out-of-date  Errors in the li

Autodesk® Network License Manager 49 LMTOOLS Error: Data Execution Prevention After you restarted the license server, you received an error message s

Autodesk® Network License Manager 5 Install and configure Autodesk Network License Manager Autodesk Network License Manager Network licenses are man

Autodesk® Network License Manager 50 See Knowledge Base document TS73294. Autodesk Product Support and Knowledge Base Problems configuring the Autode

Autodesk® Network License Manager 51 Report license usage Using LMTOOLS Current usage can be seen in LMTOOLS. If you are experiencing problems with t

Autodesk® Network License Manager 52 A Usage Summary report in SAMreport-Lite: If you need more detailed reporting, you may want to consider the Fle

Autodesk® Network License Manager 53 JTB FlexReport LT JTB FlexReport LT is a freeware from JTB World for HTML reports showing current FlexNet usage.

Autodesk® Network License Manager 54 JTB FlexReport JTB FlexReport is a report tool from JTB World that gives you graphic reports or detailed list re

Autodesk® Network License Manager 55 References and resources: Autodesk Product Support: www.autodesk.com/support Autodesk's YouTube Channel: h

Autodesk® Network License Manager 6 Planning The Network License Manager can be installed on one or multiple servers. There are three possible server

Autodesk® Network License Manager 7 Single License Server In the single license server model, the Network License Manager is installed on a single se

Autodesk® Network License Manager 8 Distributed License Servers In the distributed license server model, licenses are distributed across two or more

Autodesk® Network License Manager 9 Redundant License Servers In the redundant license server model, three servers are used. Licenses can be issued a