Options Files: Passing Instructions to Vendor Daemons
You can pass instructions to a vendor daemon using an options file. The options file is where you specify the path to a report log file. To enable reporting for a vendor daemon, you must include the keyword REPORTLOG in the vendor daemon’s options file, and specify the path to the report log file. See Enabling Report Logging for more information.
You can add a new options file, and you can edit an existing options file within FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications using a text editor–style interface. (You can also import an options file at the command line.) FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications automatically notes the newly configured options file during a reread of the vendor daemon’s license files, or when the license server or vendor daemon is restarted.
The options file location must be either of the following:
| • | Specified on the VENDOR line of the license file that contains the vendor daemon’s feature lines. |
| • | In the same directory as the vendor daemon’s license file with a file name that matches the vendor daemon name with an .opt extension (for example for a vendor daemon named mycompany, the options file must be named mycompany.opt). |
To work with an options file within FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications, a user must be assigned a role with the Manage Options for Vendor Daemons permission.
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