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Specify one license server for IV Pro, different server for Standard

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hallstevenson
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Specify one license server for IV Pro, different server for Standard

We've got a location that would like to access our floating Professional licenses but otherwise use their local (network) licenses for Inventor Standard. I was hoping it could be as simple as pointing the shortcut for Pro to the right server, i.e.

"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 11\Bin\Inventor.exe" /license-server-here

I don't know what startup switches are available for IV though.

I thought about using "ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE =" but that will override their Inventor Standard startup too. Or do I specify their license server first, then ours ?
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Anonymous
in reply to: hallstevenson


> We've got a location that would like to access
our floating Professional licenses but otherwise use

> their local (network) licenses for
Inventor Standard. I was hoping it could be as simple as pointing the shortcut
for Pro to the right server, i.e.

> "C:\Program
Files\Autodesk\Inventor 11\Bin\Inventor.exe" /license-server-here

> I
don't know what startup switches are available for IV though.

> I
thought about using "ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE =" but that will override their
Inventor Standard startup too. Or do I specify their license server first, then
ours ?

 

I think it's technical very hard
acomplish.

Imagine you have a situation with server S1 and S2.
Then S1 has pro and standard licenses and S2 has only standard licenses.
Whenever the application will ask for a pro it should ask S1. However it will
also ask S1 for standard licenses in the event that pro licenses are not
available.

 

What can maybe work for you is to make an exclusion
list on S1 so all requests to standard licenses from that office will be denied.
This is a possible way.

Then you would need to add the S1 server path in
front of S2. Similarly you can make other types of exclusion to restriction who
can use which services.

However this could result in some people not
getting the proper licenses depending on the setup. Alternatively people might
end up using the wrong servers. The best way is to start looking into option
files to see about exclusion.

 

Message 3 of 5
Anonymous
in reply to: hallstevenson

You could make a VBS or CMD file that changes the server before starting
each application. Then the users just must make sure to use this to start
with.
http://jtbworld.blogspot.com/2005/05/tips-when-changing-license-server.html

--
Jimmy Bergmark
JTB World - Software development and consulting
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"hallstevenson" wrote in message news:5703294@discussion.autodesk.com...
We've got a location that would like to access our floating Professional
licenses but otherwise use their local (network) licenses for Inventor
Standard. I was hoping it could be as simple as pointing the shortcut for
Pro to the right server, i.e.

"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 11\Bin\Inventor.exe"
/license-server-here

I don't know what startup switches are available for IV though.

I thought about using "ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE =" but that will override their
Inventor Standard startup too. Or do I specify their license server first,
then ours ?
Message 4 of 5

That appears to be a nice option to consider. Can I ask how to "undo" the environment variable setting too ?? Or, as you say, I just have (2) of these files, one that points to my server (for PRO) and another that points to their normal (for Standard/Series) server ??
Message 5 of 5
Anonymous
in reply to: hallstevenson

You can start PRO like this and that will restore the environment variable
when PRO closes:

Set WshShell = Wscript.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
Set WshSysEnv = WshShell.Environment("SYSTEM")
WshSysEnv.item("ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE") = "@SERVER1"
WshShell.Run """C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor
11\Bin\Inventor.exe""",1,true
WshSysEnv.item("ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE") = "@SERVER2"

But in case something got wrong it might be a good idea to have a file
available that the users can run to only restore the environment variable.

--
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:5707151@discussion.autodesk.com...
That appears to be a nice option to consider. Can I ask how to "undo" the
environment variable setting too ?? Or, as you say, I just have (2) of these
files, one that points to my server (for PRO) and another that points to
their normal (for Standard/Series) server ??

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