Difference between revisions of "Allinea: Start Licence Server"

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Alinnea Licences

Download Allinea Forge and Allinea Licence Server from http://www.allinea.com/products/downloads/download-allinea-ddt-and-allinea-map
Run the installers and note the installation directory
/cm/shared/apps/allinea for Allinea Forge

/cm/shared/apps/allinea/licenceserver for Allinea Licence Server

Allinea will provide one licence file. If it has no name, it should be named Licence.<serial number>.
This file is the server licence file and should be placed in /cm/local/allinea/licenceserver/licences
Create another file named Licence and place it in /cm/local/allinea.

This file should have the following format

type=2
serial_number=8502    #info from the initial Licence.<serial> file
hostname=head-Boston
serverport=4241

Running the Licence Server

Run the licenceserver pointing to its licences directory:

/cm/shared/apps/allinea/licenceserver/bin/licenceserver /cm/local/allinea/licenceserver/licences/ &

Check the licence service is running

point a browser at the server using port 4241

Start the Licence Server as a service

RHEL/CentOS 6

/cm/local/allinea/licenceserver/bin/allinea_licensing_init is a SysV-style init style script for <7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases. To use the script, follow the instructions below (as root):

Set ALLINEA_TOOLS_PATH at the top of the script to point to the Allinea Licence Server installation, e.g. /cm/shared/apps/allinea/licenceserver/
Set ALLINEA_LICENCE_USER to the name of the user to run the licence server as
Then do:

ln -s /cm/shared/apps/allinea/licenceserver/bin/allinea_licensing_init /etc/init.d/
chkconfig --add allinea_licensing_init
service allinea_licensing_init start
service allinea_licensing_init status

RHEL/CentOS 7

For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, a systemd unit configuration file can be used to start the licence server. To use it, follow the instruction below (as root):

Edit /cm/local/allinea/licenceserver/lib/systemd/system/allinea-licenceserver.service in your Allinea Licence Server installation. Make sure in particular that the Environment, ExecStart and User settings in the [Service] section are correct for your install.
Then run:

systemctl enable lib/systemd/system/allinea-licenceserver.service
systemctl start allinea-licenceserver
systemctl status allinea-licenceserver

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 <tt>/cm/local/allinea/licenceserver/bin/allinea_licensing_init</tt> is a SysV-style init style script for <7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases. To use the script, follow the instructions below (as root):
-#Set <tt>ALLINEA_TOOLS_PATH</tt> at the top of the script to point to the Allinea Licence Server installation, e.g. /cm/local/allinea/licenceserver
+#Set <tt>ALLINEA_TOOLS_PATH</tt> at the top of the script to point to the Allinea Licence Server installation, e.g. /cm/shared/apps/allinea/licenceserver/
 #Set <tt>ALLINEA_LICENCE_USER</tt> to the name of the user to run the licence server as
 #Then do:
 <syntaxhighlight>
-ln -s /opt/allinea/tools/bin/allinea_licensing_init /etc/init.d/
+ln -s /cm/shared/apps/allinea/licenceserver/bin/allinea_licensing_init /etc/init.d/
 chkconfig --add allinea_licensing_init
 service allinea_licensing_init start