Hi,
I don't know any way to automate borrowing of licenses in an easy way.
LINGER is not for that. One would think that lmborrow.exe or lmutil lmborrow
could be used but I've not been able to get it working.
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"Kathrin Bombrowski" wrote in
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1. I would have to install and maintain 25+ license servers. This wouldn't
save me much work compared to standalone licenses.
2. users frequently change from one office to another. To be correct I would
have to transfer the license, IOW getting 2 new license files every time a
user changes
3. AFAIK I would have to set an environment variable on each machine which
says "ask your local license server first, then all other 24 servers".
Everytime a user moves, I would have to change it on his machine. If one of
the servers is changed or gets a new ip adress, or if one office is closed
and another one is opened, ... i would have to change it on all. At least on
all servers, if we use a script which does the change on the clients.
I don't think this amount of distributed servers would be a good solution
for us.
Since VPN connections break down very rarely we only need a workaround for
the time until it is fixed.
I'm thinking of a scenario like this:
Everytime a user starts AutoCAD he gets a license from a server which is
granted for him for lets say the next 3 days. When he exits AutoCAD the
license "stays" at his machine. Worst case: when he starts AutoCAD again and
VPN is down, he gets the license as long as it is in the 3days-period.
Normal case: he starts AutoCAD again, VPN is up and the 3 days start again.
So we are back to my starting question, I'm still thinking about LINGER in
options file. Do you know if it can do the job?
Or is there a possibility for automatically borrowing the license for 3 days
everytime when the user starts AutoCAD?
Is there any possibility to borrow a license to a user after VPN went down?
Best regards,
Kathrin
"Jimmy Bergmark" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Using a distributed setup you can set it up like this:
Main office - 100 licenses
Satelite 1 - 1 license
Satelite 2 - 5 license
Satelite 3 - 6 license
etc
In this case what happens when the connection goes down between Main office
and Satelite 2 is that Main office doesn't have access to the 5 licenses on
Satelite 2 and Satelite 2 doesn't have access to the Main offices licenses.
The user can point the licenses to the local location first and if it is not
find search a license on a second location and so on.
If all VPN's are up all users have access to all licenses.
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Best Regards, Jimmy Bergmark
CAD and Database Developer Manager at www.pharmadule-emtunga.com
Blog: http://jtbworld.blogspot.com
JTB FlexReport (FLEXnet / FLEXlm report tool) -
http://www.jtbworld.com/jtbflexreport
SmartPurger (Purges automatically) -
http://www.jtbworld.com/?/smartpurger.htm
or download some freeware at http://www.jtbworld.com
More on AutoCAD 2005 and 2006
http://www.jtbworld.com/autocad2005.htm
http://www.jtbworld.com/autocad2006.htm
"Kathrin Bombrowski" wrote in
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Thanks for your answer, Jimmy.
>A2. What you might want to consider is a distributed server solution.
Problem is, if VPN connection between main and satellite office breaks down,
it is normally due to any technical defect in the latter, so there is no
more connection to any of the other offices.
So far I can't see how to avoid loss of licenses with distributed servers,
except we would have one in each satellite office. Did you mean this?
Kathrin
