Run product clients

Before you begin

• A floating license consists of two files: Server license (Licence.xxxx), and Client license (Licence).

• Server license file names must begin with License, or the variant spelling Licence.

• License file names are not case-sensitive.

• You can append unique identifiers to license file names for storing multiple licenses in the same directory.

  For example, add the server license serial number, license.server.1234, or include client in the client license name, license.client.5678.

Procedure

1. For each floating license, copy the corresponding client license file to the relevant licences subdirectory in the product installation directory, <product_installation_directory>/licences. For example, copy the Arm® Forge client license to /opt/arm/forge/<version>/licences.
2. Edit hostname in the client license file to include the hostname or IP address of the machine on which the Arm® Licence Server runs.
3. If your licenses directory is not in the product installation directory, you can specify the directory path to point to the location of the product licenses using the environment variable ALLINEA_LICENCE_DIR.

Notes:

• If you include a specific license file name in the ALLINEA_LICENCE_DIR path, the Arm® Licence Server always attempts to serve that specific license.

• You can set the environment variable in a module file for the product. For example:

  export ALLINEA_LICENCE_DIR=${HOME}/SomeOtherLicenceDir
  forge
  

The fields in the client license file are:

Name	Required	Description
hostname	Yes	The hostname, or IP address of the license server
ports	No	A comma separated list of ports to be tried locally for GUI-backend communication. Defaults to 4242,4243,4244,4244,4245
serial_number	Yes	The serial number of the server license to be used
serverport	Yes	The port the server listens on
type	Yes	Must have value 2—this indicates that the license requires a server to run correctly