Allinea: Start Licence Server

Alinnea Licences

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

   /cm/local/allinea for Allinea Forge

   /cm/local/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/local/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

/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):

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

ln -s /opt/allinea/tools/bin/allinea_licensing_init /etc/init.d/
chkconfig --add allinea_licensing_init
service allinea_licensing_init start
service allinea_licensing_init status