Licensing example

This section shows an example of how the Arm® Licence Server is set up with details of the license file content.

For detailed instructions about how to set up the Arm® Licence Server, see Run Arm® Licence Server.

In this example, a dedicated Linux server machine is running the Arm® Licence Server. It is installed in /opt/arm/licenceserver/<version> and the server license files are stored in /opt/arm/licenceserver/<version>/licences.

The Arm® Licence Server program runs as the dedicated allinea user, and serves all licenses in /opt/arm/licenceserver/<version>/licences. Arm® Licence Server logs events to the /var/log/arm/allinea.log.

These commands were run to set up the Arm® Licence Server to:

• create the allinea user.
• specify the location of licenses and logs.
• link to the systemd init configuration.
• run the Arm® Licence Server and check its status.

% useradd --system --user-group --no-create-home \
          --home-dir /opt/arm/licenceserver/<version> allinea
% mkdir /var/log/arm
% chown allinea: /var/log/arm
% ln -s /opt/arm/licenceserver/<version>/lib/systemd/system/allinea-licenceserver.service \
        /etc/systemd/system/
% systemctl enable allinea-licenceserver
% systemctl start allinea-licenceserver
% systemctl status allinea-licenceserver

The example server license file is /opt/arm/licenceserver/<version>/licences/Licence.server.physics and is served by server.physics.acme.edu on port 4252.

It contains:

type=3
serial_number=1014
max_processes=48
expires=2004-04-01 00:00:00
support_expires=2004-04-01 00:00:00
mac=00:E0:81:03:6C:DB
interface=eth0
debuggers=gdb
serverport=4252
max_users=2
beat=60
retry_limit=4
hash2=c18101680ae9f8863266d4aa7544de58562ea858

The example client license is stored at /opt/arm/forge/<version>/licences/Licence.client.physics.

It contains:

type=2
serial_number=1014
hostname=server.physics.acme.edu
serverport=4252