Hello!
I have a question on the licence management of ADS.
I have
- a USB dongled licence for the design environment, data display and the linear simulator
- a licence server with e.g. a User Defined Model licence.
Can I mix both licence source to use e.g. the design environment from the USB dongle and the UDM from the server?
Best regards,
Martin.
I have a question on the licence management of ADS.
I have
- a USB dongled licence for the design environment, data display and the linear simulator
- a licence server with e.g. a User Defined Model licence.
Can I mix both licence source to use e.g. the design environment from the USB dongle and the UDM from the server?
Best regards,
Martin.
Yes. What you want to do can be done. FLEXlm allows very flexible mixing of licenses.
I assume that you have a license file on your PC that is specifically tied to your USB dongle. Let's say that this license file in the the licenses folder of ADS:
C:\ADS2003C\licenses\license.lic
And you are connected to the LAN which has an ADS license server for floating licenses. For this example, we'll call the license server "licserver".
In order to use licenses from both locations (local file AND server) you need to define your license variable to point at both locations. In this example we will use ADS 2003C which uses the AGILEESOFD_LICENSE_FILE variable. Ideally you want your ADS session to looks for a local license first, then to the license server. In order to do this (in our example) we would define our variable as such:
AGILEESOFD_LICENSE_FILE = C:\ADS2003C\licenses\license.lic; @licserver
ADS looks at the local license.lic first for an available license (for whatever feature is being requested) and if the requested license is not found there, ADS will move on to check the "licserver" for the requested license.
The license file variable is typically defined in the System Variables (on Windows2000 Start > Settings > Control Panel > System > Advanced > Environment Variables on WindowsXP Start>Control Panel > Performance & Maintenance > System > Advanced > Environment Variables)
If you have any difficulty getting this to work, please call our Tech Support Hotline 800-473-3763 or email eesof_support@agilent.com for assistance.
-Jay (Tech Support Engineer)