Starting the License Server
To start the specified license server:
| 1. | Click the display name of the license server. The Configure and Manage License Server page appears and displays the license server information you specified when you installed the FlexNet Agent, or displays default settings. |
| 2. | By default, status and usage information for a license server is sent every five minutes. If performance is an issue, a longer refresh interval can be set for a license server by clicking License Server Scheduling and increasing the Refresh License Server Status interval. To display the refreshed status information, the web browser display must be refreshed. |
| 3. | During the FlexNet Agent installation, you specified the location of a debug log file for this license server. This location is where a debug log file would be written if lmadmin or lmgrd is started with debug logging enabled. Therefore, before starting the license server through FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Admin, make sure that debug logging is enabled for this license server (it is by default) and click Save. |
| 4. | Review all the configuration information for this license server. If you chose to install a license server that runs as a Windows service or from a boot script, now is the time to enter and save startup parameters to exactly match the service or script parameters. |
| 5. | Click a vendor daemon name on the Configure and Manage License Server page. The Configure and Manage Vendor Daemon page is displayed. |
Assigning a vendor daemon group provides a way to group different vendor daemons on a page. The vendor daemon group defaults to the vendor daemon name, but can be changed or removed.
If you wanted to enable report logging for this vendor daemon, before installing the FlexNet Agent, you should have set up an options file for the vendor daemon that specifies the full path to a report log file. FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications reads the options file and displays the report log file name. Note that you can schedule the rotation of report logs through FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Admin.
Review the rest of the configuration information for the vendor daemon.
| 6. | Click the license server display name to return to the Configure and Manage License Server page. When you are ready to start the license server, click Start. A message is displayed to notify you that the start command is being processed. |
| 7. | Click the Summary tab after a few seconds. The status of both lmgrd and the vendor daemons should be up. If not, refresh the Web browser display after a few more seconds. |
If the license server does not start:
| • | Verify that the license server runs with the same startup parameters from the command line, as a Windows service, or from a boot script, outside FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Admin. |
| • | Check the files flexnet.log and flexnetagent.log, and read the section, Troubleshooting FlexNet Agents in this chapter. You can also view these log files from the FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications user interface. |