Licensing with FRI3D
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NLicenseD - InstructionsThis is the license manager which needs to be run in order to use Floating/Network licenses of FRI3D. This runs the service and monitors the licenses.
No administrator access is needed if not installed as a Windows service. However it does monitor UDP ports (46345) and issues requests every minute.
If Installed on the local machine
- Any other machine needing access to FRI3D needs to have access the IP address and mentioned ports to the local machine NLicenseD is running on.
- Please check with your IT department about access.
If installed on a separate license server machine
- Please ask your IT adminstrator to ensure that the license server machine is visible in the network via UDP and TCP/IP Ports 46345 .
- Any machine running FRI3D needs to be able to ping the license server machine under the mentioned port.
- On the machine running License Server -> Command Prompt
- ipconfig /all
- On the local machine running FRI3D -> Command Prompt
- ping
<IP Address of License Server Machine> and ensure that the machine answers to the ping
- ping
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InstallationRun the installer NLicenseD_Windows.exe
Follow the prompts . Specify the Installation folder to it into a custom user folder if you dont have Adminstrator access or access to <Program Files>
folder. The default is \<C:\Program Files\NLicenseD> . Select NLicenseD component. Accept License Agreement
There are two ways once can run the license server.
- Run as a windows background service - Needs Administrator Access
- Run as a user process
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Start as a User process (Recommended)- Open Windows Command Prompt Win -> Command Prompt
- Change directory to the Program Folder where NLicenseD License Daemon was installed. (cd
<Program Folder> )
- .\NLicenseD.bat
This runs the process as a regular user process and monitors the licenses. No administrator access is needed. However it does monitor UDP ports (46345) and issues requests every minute.
Short | Long | Explanation |
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-e | -execute | Execute the service as a standalone application |
(useful for debug purposes). | ||
This is a blocking call and it will be executed like a normal application. |
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Startup as a Windows Service- Open Windows Command Prompt Win -> Command Prompt
- Change directory to the Program Folder where NLicenseD License Daemon was installed.
- NLicenseD.exe -install to install the service
The following are the commands which can be issued to the service. Each time use NlicenseD.exe with the following options.
Short | Long | Explanation |
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-i | -install | Install the service. |
-u | -uninstall | Uninstall the service. |
-t | -terminate | Stop the Service |
-p | -pause | Pause the Service |
-r | -resume | Resume the paused service |
-c {cmd} | -command {cmd} | Send the user defined command code\e{cmd} to the service application. |
-v | -version | Display the version and Status information |
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If Service needs to be suspended or terminated- NLicenseD.exe -terminate
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To uninstall the service- NLicenseD.exe -uninstall