Maya 2020 Subscription License On Headless Linux host

[jhickson70]

I am testing Maya 2020 on our render farm.
I can only do silent installations which complete successfully.
Our licenses are subscription based.
Our render nodes are headless running CentOS with no user interface.
How do I license your product?

[natasha.l]

Hello @jhickson70, 

Thanks for reaching out on the forums. 😊 

I will move this post to the Maya forum for you, as it is the appropriate place to get additional information on this subject. 

Autodesk does not recommend conducting a hardware render (OGS) without a GPU as it requires GPU resources (frame buffers, vertex buffers, etc.) to render with, otherwise VP2 will just fail to initialize if it doesn't find a GPU. So you would need some type of display hardware that meets the system requirements. 

Related Article: Maya 2017 render farm environment variables

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[jhickson70]

Thanks for the response Natasha.

I should clarify that by headless I just mean the UI for CentOS is not installed, command line only.

We use Arnold for rendering on these nodes.

The question remains though: if our licenses are subscription based (SSO) how do I license Maya 2020 at the command line.