license management (.profile file)

The states that licenses can be managed with the file .profile
which can check-in idle licenses, reserve and limit users/licenses.
It implies that this file would be in each users directory but its
path should be defined in the license file. Where should it be?

Thanks

Rick

 

rick wrote, on 05/04/10 22:45:

Rick,

I suspect something must be missing from your statement, because it doesn't make
sense. Where does it state that license are managed with a .profile file (which
is the startup file for a bourne shell, so perhaps that's the confusion with it
being in the user directory?)

Anyway, license options are controlled via an options file (which wouldn't be
per-user - the whole point is that it's done on the server side, not client
side). This is covered in <instDir>/doc/license/license.pdf (any release). In
the few installations I looked at, it's in Chapter 2 "How to Configure
Licensing" in the section "Managing Licenses". It discusses all the capabilities
in this options file, and then describes how you reference the file on the
DAEMON cdslmd line in the license file.

Regards,

Andrew.

 

Typo....sorry, working too many issues at once. Not the profile but
it is the options file

 

rick wrote, on 05/05/10 15:46:

Rick,

No problem - I understand entirely. My entire life seems to be spent working on
too many issues at once (and usually not the issues I'm _supposed_ to be working
on) ;->

Andrew.