Temporary License Checkout on FlexLM
To Borrow from FlexlM, the following three steps are to be followed:
1. Initiate license borrowing
— Before starting VisualSim Architect or PostProcessor, you must initiate license borrowing on a client system by running the FLEXlm lmborrow utility. In this step you specify how long you want to borrow the licenses, called the borrow period. lmborrow.exe is shipped for Windows in VS_AR/bin directory.
2. Borrow a license
— Once borrowing is initiated, start VisualSim Architect or PostProcessor. When you start VisualSim, you check out licenses for the products implicitly. With borrowing initiated, when you check out a license, you borrow the license for the borrow period. To ensure you have borrowed all the licenses, make sure to select the Library folders that you normally utilize.
3. Turn off license borrowing
— After borrowing all the licenses you need, you should exit VisualSim Architect/PostProcessor and turn off
license borrowing, using the FLEXlm lmborrow utility. Otherwise, with borrowing initiated, you might borrow
licenses for products unintentionally.
After you borrow licenses, disconnect your system from the network. The next time you start VisualSim on your system you will be using the license you borrowed.
Using the lmborrow Utility:
To initiate license borrowing, perform this procedure before you start VisualSim. If you initiate license borrowing while VisualSim is running, you must restart VisualSim before you can borrow licenses.
1. Open a DOS command window. One way to do this is to select the Run option from the Start menu.
2. Navigate to the $VisualSim\VS_AR\bin folder, where $VisualSim represents the directory of your VisualSim installation.
3. Run the lmborrow utility as follows.
lmborrow mjalapa dd-mmm-yyyy [hh:mm]
dd-mmm-yyyy [hh:mm] specifies the end of the borrow period. You must use three-letter abbreviations
for the month, such as sep or oct. You can optionally specify the time [hh:mm] when the borrow period ends. If you do not specify the time, the borrow period lasts until midnight on the specified date.
Borrowing Licenses:
Once you have initiated license borrowing (as shown above), you can borrow license keys for VisualSim products. To borrow a license for the specified borrow period, simply use the product. When you use a product, you implicitly check out a license key for that product. Make sure to click on each Library Folder that you normally use. This ensures that Architect and all the associated libraries are borrowed.
Turning Off License Borrowing:
After you have borrowed licenses for the products you want to use, you should turn off license borrowing. Otherwise, with borrowing initiated, you might borrow licenses unintentionally. To turn off license borrowing, run the lmborrow utility in a DOS command prompt window.
1. Exit VisualSim.
2. Open a DOS command window.
3. Navigate to the $VisualSim\VS_AR\bin folder.
4. Run lmborrow
lmborrow -clear
Determining Which Licenses You Borrowed:
You might want to determine which products you currently have borrowed. The following sections describe how to get this information. Run the lmborrow utility in a DOS command prompt window.
1. Open a DOS command window.
2. Navigate to the $VisualSim\VS_AR\bin\ folder.
3. Run the lmborrow utility,
lmutil lmborrow -status