Licensing with FRI3D

NLicenseD - Instructions

This 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

1. 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.
2. Please check with your IT department about access.

If installed on a separate license server machine

1. Please ask your IT adminstrator to ensure that the license server machine is visible in the network via UDP and TCP/IP Ports 46345 .
2. Any machine running FRI3D needs to be able to ping the license server machine under the mentioned port.
3. On the machine running License Server -> Command Prompt
   1. ipconfig /all
4. On the local machine running FRI3D -> Command Prompt
   1. ping <IP Address of License Server Machine> and ensure that the machine answers to the ping

Installation

Run 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.

1. Run as a windows background service - Needs Administrator Access
2. Run as a user process

Start as a User process (Recommended)

1. Open Windows Command Prompt Win -> Command Prompt
2. Change directory to the Program Folder where NLicenseD License Daemon was installed. (cd <Program Folder> )
3. .\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
-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.

Startup as a Windows Service

1. Open Windows Command Prompt Win -> Command Prompt
2. Change directory to the Program Folder where NLicenseD License Daemon was installed.
3. 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
-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

If Service needs to be suspended or terminated

1. NLicenseD.exe -terminate

To uninstall the service

1. NLicenseD.exe -uninstall