switch from single to redundant

[Anonymous]

good morning.
we're on 2007. we have a single license server set up (which has been working fine for a few years) and we have around 50 active users.
now, that single server is having problems and my supervisor wants us to switch to redundant servers. while setting up the redundant servers shouldn't be too hard and i see i'll have to re-create (or modify the existing) the deployment. but what about all the workstations out there... will we have to re-install AutoCAD on their machine for them to see the redundant info (the 2 new ip addresses) - or is there some other setting I can change that allows them to see the redundant info. (even if it means typing in the ip addresses on each machine) so i don't lose their preferences and have to reset up their plotter access?

[Anonymous]

I don't have to much experience of redundant servers. What is the problem
with the single server setup? Have you considered distributed servers?

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"mas1" wrote in message news:5629387@discussion.autodesk.com...
good morning.
we're on 2007. we have a single license server set up (which has been
working fine for a few years) and we have around 50 active users.
now, that single server is having problems and my supervisor wants us to
switch to redundant servers. while setting up the redundant servers
shouldn't be too hard and i see i'll have to re-create (or modify the
existing) the deployment. but what about all the workstations out there...
will we have to re-install AutoCAD on their machine for them to see the
redundant info (the 2 new ip addresses) - or is there some other setting I
can change that allows them to see the redundant info. (even if it means
typing in the ip addresses on each machine) so i don't lose their
preferences and have to reset up their plotter access?

[Anonymous]

> ... machine for them to see the redundant info (the 2 new ip addresses) -
> or is there some other setting I
> can change that allows them to see the redundant info. (even if it means
> typing in the ip addresses
> on each machine) so i don't lose their preferences and have to reset up
> their plotter access?

The easiest way to add more ip addresses to the users system is to add them
to the environment variable LM_LICENSE_FILE like:

LM_LICENSE_FILE = port@host;port@host2;etc

When you do a deployment thats exactly what happens behind your back.
Instead of adding it as an environment variable they get added as a file
with *.lic extension. The concept is still the same though.

However redundant servers are not always for the better. Previously the
stability has not been worth talking about. I've seen too many times that
the servers gets confused about themselves and deadlocks requiring you to
re-start more of them. Some people have good experience and other vendors
actually tell their users to stop using it.

Best Regards,

Henrik Goldman
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