3.2.8 Execution procedure for licensing utilities

Products: ABAQUS/Standard  ABAQUS/Explicit  

Reference

Overview

The FLEXlm licensing utilities provided with the ABAQUS release may be executed by running the execution procedure and specifying the licensing parameter. Executing this command without additional arguments displays a command usage summary of all available FLEXlm utilities.

Refer to The FLEXlm End User's Guide for a detailed description of all of the FLEXlm licensing utilities. Several of the most useful licensing utilities are listed in the command summary below.

Command summary

abaqus licensing
lmstat | lmdiag | lmpath | lmtools
 

Command line options

lmstat

This option displays information relating to the location and features served by the FLEXlm servers used to serve the ABAQUS license. Additional arguments may be used with this command to generate more license usage information.

lmdiag

This option displays information relating to the various FLEXlm features and indicates whether or not the feature may be checked out.

lmpath

This option can be used to control where ABAQUS looks for licenses. Additional arguments are used to print, set, or add license location information. Running the command without arguments will display the command summary for each action.

lmtools

This option starts the FLEXlm licensing toolchest on Windows platforms. This application can be used to invoke most FLEXlm utility functions.