Inventor pulls PRO license when Standard is started

[hallstevenson]

I have Inventor Professional 11 installed but run Standard 99% of the time. We have multiple Standard licenses but a limited number of Pro licenses.

In the past, we had a "backup" license server that allowed to pull licenses from and it all worked fine. Now when I try to run Inventor Standard, which currently has no local licenses available (I asked everyone to open their copy of IV), it launches Professional. I use a desktop icon that has this:

"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 11\Bin\Inventor.exe" /INVBUN

I also tried going through the Start menu and specifically chose "Use Inventor Series License" and it still runs Pro.

I have this environment variable:

ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE = @my-local-server's-IP-address;@backup-server-1;@backup-server-2

As I understand it, when all my local licenses are consumed, it should then try the next in the list and so on until it exhausts all servers.

Why is Pro launching ?? Interestingly, when I deleted the env variable and launched IV right afterwards, it ran Series/Standard *but* pulled a license from backup-server-1 !! After I deleted the variable, it shouldn't know anything about that server !!

[Anonymous]

Search in the registry for the server name. There are other places that this
can be saved in. Use regedit.exe.
It could also be in the file licpath.lic.
The System Variable LM_LICENSE_FILE can also hold the server name.

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"hallstevenson" wrote in message news:5711012@discussion.autodesk.com...
I have Inventor Professional 11 installed but run Standard 99% of the time.
We have multiple Standard licenses but a limited number of Pro licenses.

In the past, we had a "backup" license server that allowed to pull licenses
from and it all worked fine. Now when I try to run Inventor Standard, which
currently has no local licenses available (I asked everyone to open their
copy of IV), it launches Professional. I use a desktop icon that has this:

"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 11\Bin\Inventor.exe" /INVBUN

I also tried going through the Start menu and specifically chose "Use
Inventor Series License" and it still runs Pro.

I have this environment variable:

ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE =
@my-local-server's-IP-address;@backup-server-1;@backup-server-2

As I understand it, when all my local licenses are consumed, it should then
try the next in the list and so on until it exhausts all servers.

Why is Pro launching ?? Interestingly, when I deleted the env variable and
launched IV right afterwards, it ran Series/Standard *but* pulled a license
from backup-server-1 !! After I deleted the variable, it shouldn't know
anything about that server !!

[Anonymous]

Look also in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\FLEXlm License Manager\ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE

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Jimmy Bergmark
JTB World - Software development and consulting
Owner/Developer
http://www.jtbworld.com
http://jtbworld.blogspot.com

JTB World offers you software's, custom software development, consulting...
http://www.jtbworld.com/about.htm

JTB FlexReport (FLEXnet / FLEXlm license report tool) -
www.jtbworld.com/jtbflexreport

AutoCAD 2008
http://www.jtbworld.com/autocad2008.htm

"hallstevenson" wrote in message news:5711012@discussion.autodesk.com...
I have Inventor Professional 11 installed but run Standard 99% of the time.
We have multiple Standard licenses but a limited number of Pro licenses.

In the past, we had a "backup" license server that allowed to pull licenses
from and it all worked fine. Now when I try to run Inventor Standard, which
currently has no local licenses available (I asked everyone to open their
copy of IV), it launches Professional. I use a desktop icon that has this:

"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 11\Bin\Inventor.exe" /INVBUN

I also tried going through the Start menu and specifically chose "Use
Inventor Series License" and it still runs Pro.

I have this environment variable:

ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE =
@my-local-server's-IP-address;@backup-server-1;@backup-server-2

As I understand it, when all my local licenses are consumed, it should then
try the next in the list and so on until it exhausts all servers.

Why is Pro launching ?? Interestingly, when I deleted the env variable and
launched IV right afterwards, it ran Series/Standard *but* pulled a license
from backup-server-1 !! After I deleted the variable, it shouldn't know
anything about that server !!

[hallstevenson]

What do I do with any registry keys that I find ? What about licpath.lic ? Delete them, rename, export ?

I presume they are "strays" and that the env variable I set will straighten things out.

[hallstevenson]

Okay, I renamed my licpath.lic file. I deleted the registry entry noted below (it keeps getting re-created, by the way).

The env variable is this:

Variable: ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE
Value: @local_server_name;@remote_server_1;@remote_server_2

All of our Series licenses are consumed (from "local_server_name") at the moment.

When I launch ""C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 11\Bin\Inventor.exe" /INVBUN" I still end up running Professional (and consuming a Pro license).

[TravisNave]

Try removing the PLIST Increment from the license file. Perhaps there is a chance that Inventor is pulling an available Pro license from roll-over because the Series licenses are all in use. Just an idea...

[hallstevenson]

I don't have access or permissions to do anything *to* the license file. 😞 I can only access it....

A co-worker who does control their license file suggested something similar, along with changing the timeout values, etc, etc. Can't do any of those and can't get the "keeper" to cooperate.

[Anonymous]

> A co-worker who does control their license file suggested something
> similar, along with changing the
> timeout values, etc, etc. Can't do any of those and can't get the "keeper"
> to cooperate.

Oh well... In this case it's likely rather a totally different problem. Some
times it helps going to management and saying that "someone" is stopping you
from doing your job most efficiently. At the end of the day it should be in
everyones interest to get the problems solved, no?

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[hallstevenson]

> Some times it helps going to management and saying that "someone" is stopping you
> from doing your job most efficiently.

I wish that were the case. I'm just a designer / computer geek though. It will be a cold day in h*ll before IT gives me access to the license "server" because of, uhhhh, security reasons.

[TravisNave]

As an IT person myself, it is my fully qualified position that IT people s_u_c_k.