Updating the “sonnet.lic” File

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You may at times receive a new “sonnet.lic” file. When this occurs, you will have to restart the license manager. This section explains how this is done. For the experienced FLEXnet administrator, you may want to do a “lmreread” instead of restarting the license manager.

Before restarting the license manager, you should backup the existing license file and save the new “sonnet.lic” to the same location. Edit the “sonnet.lic” file and on the SERVER line change “this_host” to the hostname or IP address of the license server.

The following are instructions to restart the license manager.

    1.  First login as “root” on the license server.
    2.  Change directory to the Sonnet Suites directory.

Type:

cd <Sonnet Directory>

    1.  Determine the users that are using the Sonnet Suites applications.

Type:

bin/sflexnet status -a

    1.  Ask these users to quit their Sonnet Suites applications.

Users who are using Sonnet programs like em, xgeom, etc. may lose their license when the license manager is restarted. These programs will have to be exited, then restarted. Note that in xgeom, even without a license the users may still save their work to a file. Also, in all of the applications it may take a few minutes before the application actually loses the license.

    1.  Restart the license manager.

Type:

bin/sflexnet restart

The sflexnet program will run lmstop then lmgrd to restart the license manager.

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