Need to know the port for the FlexLM daemon, so make sure this isĬorrect using the License Administrator tool. These ports are specified in your FlexLM licence file,Īnd you can change them to whatever you like. These two daemons listen onĭifferent ports - by default these are ports 17 In the case of Materials Studio this second daemon isĬalled msi (Accelrys' former name). Licence server itself runs two programs (called daemons), the first isĪ generic FlexLM one called lmgrd, and the second is

To be open (that is, allowed through any intervening firewalls). If you aren't sure what ports or firewalls are, youĬhecking out a licence generally requires two ports whilst my particular area of interest is Castep, I am not going to address running a remote Gateway to spawn Castep jobs on other machines.

Edit your Windows HOSTS file to pretend that your servername is in fact the local machine (127.0.0.1)ĭon't worry if this is all gibberish to you, read on and hopefully things will become clear(er).

Create an ssh tunnel to forward the FlexLM and vendor daemon ports from the local machine to the server.

If you know what you're doing, the basic summary is: Licence then you should just install it on the relevant machine, and These notes refer to setting up a licence server,

(Flexnet) licence server, not just Materials Studio users. Inįact I think this should be relevant to anyone using a FlexLM I don't lose them at least, and might prove useful to someone else. Perhaps it would be worth putting my notes online. To communicate with a licence server behind a firewall, I thought Having had some fun trying to set up Materials Studio

Flexlm vendor daemon port