License Mnager Question

[blmorris]

This may be a silly question, so
please forgive my ignorance. I am new to the Network Licensing for AutoCAD.

We have a server that is our License Server. I want to monitor and control the connections from my worstation without having to log on to the server directly. Can that be done with LMTOOLS?

Thanks!

[TravisNave]

Yes.

Install LMTOOLS on your machine. Connect using License File and point to servername@27000.

[blmorris]

Awesome.

I tried that, but came up empty... But it did give me something to go on.

I ended up installing the LMTOOLS, setting a LM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable as '27000@servername', and then launching the utility.

At that point, I can choose 'Configuration using License File' and go to my server status tab and do a succesful Inquiry.

Thanks or the help!

[TravisNave]

Yeah, that is what I meant. My train of thought derailed. My bad. 27000@servername. Oops.

[JPM]

For a cheap monitor, I created a batch file like this:

\\licenseserver\flexfile\lmutil.exe lmstat -c \\licensesever\flexfile\license -A >c:\temp.txt

type c:\temp.txt

pause

This opens a command window and shows me the activity going on for all licenses (I modified the command shell to get a larger window). I have an icon in my tray I just click on to run the bat file. Cheap and dirty.