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redundant server config - one server down but not failing over

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allers1961
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redundant server config - one server down but not failing over

Our master server died last week and Revit 2014 is not getting licences from either of the other two servers. I created the FLEXLM_DIAGNOSTICS system variable and set it to 3. 

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Two things puzzle me. It is picking up the IP address for the Hostname, rather than the hostname in the licence file, and it also seems to be looking for a feature that isn't in the licence file! We have the BDS, not individual products. Our licence file looks like this:

SERVER endell-dc2 000f203310d0 27005
SERVER srv-uk-vm01 00155d01d309 27005
SERVER srv-uk-prtsrv01 00215aa7515e 27005
USE_SERVER
VENDOR adskflex port=2080
PACKAGE 85787BDSPRM_F adskflex 1.000 COMPONENTS="86071BDSPRM_2014_0F \
85946BDSPRM_2013_0F 85787BDSPRM_2012_0F 85837NAVSIM_2012_0F \
85536ACD_2011_0F 85652BDSPRM_2011_0F 85503MAXDES_2011_0F \
85561ARCHDESK_2011_0F 85595STRDET_2011_0F 85562BLDSYS_2011_0F \
85607SHOWCASE_2011_0F 85615ALSK_2011_0F 85543REVITST_2011_0F \
85541RVTMPB_2011_0F 85614RVTMPJ_2011_0F 85601NAVSIM_2011_0F \
85594REVSU_2011_0F 85587REVIT_2011_0F" OPTIONS=SUITE SUPERSEDE \
ISSUED=03-May-2013 SIGN="11C0 D294 3F0E 1D48 D043 C3C5 B693 \
2BCA CEDE C28A D003 E0A8 41FA 8B80 2714 06F9 7901 5FEF 3AE0 \
876C 58D1 5F56 8BBF ACD7 61C2 B883 BA1B 4CCA BEE6 28A7" \
SIGN2="146F 1836 DA0F C4C7 12F7 927B AB4E 0D04 6A02 DA3F 0EF7 \
E84B D7CF 83F4 C4C1 13FD 9BDB A666 6DBB 40CB F729 D940 54B5 \
BA3E 8179 1795 D4C9 D21B EB6F 1BA0"
INCREMENT 85787BDSPRM_F adskflex 1.000 permanent 3 \
VENDOR_STRING=commercial:permanent SUPERSEDE DUP_GROUP=UH \
SUITE_DUP_GROUP=UHV ISSUED=03-May-2013 BORROW=4320 \
SN=377-88534578 SIGN="0B58 845F D993 B462 316E A304 FEDC C519 \
EA32 43F4 0CE3 AF29 0226 34A2 E97B 121D E1E7 8AC1 3D49 0A86 \
E3F4 BD7D A165 FC50 5688 B364 52D9 5622 EDE0 EF4F" SIGN2="159C \
2208 E286 2124 822C D1D3 A89A 2F6C 8B5C C841 FC17 1C78 E137 \
0240 54AD 03CF D04A BD8E 1D66 030F 4AF7 6571 D39C 5CD9 E06D \
EF72 94CE A181 C21B D42F"
INCREMENT 85787BDSPRM_F adskflex 1.000 permanent 6 \
VENDOR_STRING=commercial:permanent SUPERSEDE DUP_GROUP=UH \
SUITE_DUP_GROUP=UHV ISSUED=01-Oct-2013 BORROW=4320 \
SN=377-88534578 SIGN="0846 9FD1 4F03 0F8C 23AC BEF0 E36A 3299 \
9281 4C10 44EF 7FD9 852E 1AF0 1BC5 0FE2 6305 2D37 8B67 A93D \
56EC 3913 2D3A 95D3 12D7 8B75 6910 69EC DE98 AFC3" SIGN2="13CC \
83D8 6979 1FB1 94EE 233E CEE9 9F37 F051 4EB2 7C81 6E7B CE4C \
02FB 19DE 10E3 F393 2DC1 5E70 48C2 B242 6D6F 247C EE54 420D \
F80A 3D0B A36F E437 26E9"

 

IPv6 is disabled on the servers. We are running 11.11 x64 on both servers, although the dead master server was running 32-bit.

 

If anyone has any suggestions i'd really appreciate it!

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TravisNave
in reply to: allers1961

Ditch the redundant setup.  It is a nightmare and does not work in the way that you think it does.  It doesn't really offer much failover redundancy.  Only a redundacy of the amount of work it takes to keep it properly running.  Your best bet is to run a single server or a distributed server.  My recommendation?  Generate a new license file for one server and have all of your users point to it.  You will be up and running within minutes. 



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allers1961
in reply to: TravisNave

Thanks for the reply - in fact it turned out to be a schoolboy error on my part. Beecause we had never tested failover before I hadn't checked the server configs closely enough. It turned out that one of the servers still had Windows Firewall turned on and it was blocking FlexLM traffic! I turned it off (we use a firewall appliance) and hey presto, licences served from failover server!

I take your point though about the flakiness of the redundant server config - in the exchange of emails I had with Autodesk support reading between the lines they don't like it either!

Thanks again for your help.

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