Stopping Vendor Daemons

This operation requires “Manage Vendor Daemons” permission. See FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Roles and Permissions for details.

Notifying Users

Make sure that users of licenses for the vendor daemon are aware of the impending shutdown.

To identify and notify your users:

1. Click the Activity tab, then click Concurrent by Feature to display the Concurrent by Feature - Summary page
2. Click the Vendor Daemon column to sort the list by vendor daemon name and find all entries for the vendor daemon name of interest.
3. Click the Users link for each feature served by the vendor daemon and note the user names.
4. Notify all users of the impending vendor daemon shutdown.
5. Wait for licenses to be checked in, or click the Free Selected Licenses button for each feature to check the licenses back in on behalf of the users.

Stopping the Vendor Daemon

When all users have checked in the licenses for features served by the vendor daemon of interest, you can stop the vendor daemon.

To stop the vendor daemon:

1. Click the Servers tab, then click Vendor Daemons.
2. Click the display name for the vendor daemon of interest. This displays the Configure and Manage Vendor Daemon page for the vendor daemon.
3. Click the Stop Daemon button.
4. After a period of time—several seconds to several minutes, depending on your network response time—observe the Vendor Daemon Status on this page. This field should contain the red x icon indicating a successful shutdown.