Starting and Stopping on Microsoft Windows

You start and stop FlexNet Agent 5.8 from the command line. As described in the Response File Properties table, FlexNet Agent 5.8 is, by default, installed as a service on machines running Microsoft Windows. To start FlexNet Agent 5.8 as a service on UNIX machines, see the following section, Starting and Stopping as a Service Using a UNIX Service Script.

To start FlexNet Agent 5.8:

1. Open a Command Prompt window, and change to the FlexNet Agent 5.8 installation directory (agent_install_dir).
2. To start FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications, type the command: Agent
3. Press Enter.

Important:If starting FlexNet Agent 5.8 as a Windows service triggers an error, it may be because the DLL MSVCR71.dll is not stored in the Windows system folder or folders in the PATH environment variable. This is an operating system–dependent DLL. Refer to your Microsoft Windows documentation and/or customer support for information on installing this DLL.

To stop FlexNet Agent 5.8:

1. Open a Command Prompt window, and change to the FlexNet Agent 5.8 installation directory (agent_install_dir).
2. To stop FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications, type the command: AgentShutdown
3. Press Enter.