Synopsys FPGA Licensing Guide

Tool-Specific License Considerations Chapter 3: License Configuration
– Depending on your platform, do the following to shut down the
licensing daemon:
Windows Server Linux/Solaris Server
•Select Start->Settings->Control Panel.
•Click the FLEXlm License Manager
icon to open the FLEXlm License
Manager dialog box.
•Verify that Service Name is set to
the server you want to shut down.
•Click Stop on the Control tab of the
dialog box.
Enter the following command:
lmutil lmdown -c full_license_file_path
3. Install the software and the new version of the floating license manager
along with it.
Windows installations Make sure to check the FLEXnet license server for
floating licenses option when you install the software.
See Installing on a Windows Platform, on page 2-2 for
details.
Linux/Solaris CD
installation
Linux/Solaris Web
downloads
Follow the directions in Installing from a CD (Solaris
or Linux), on page 2-3, which installs the FLEXnet
utilities.
Follow the directions in Downloading from the
Synopsys Website (Solaris/Linux), on page 2-4,
which installs the FLEXnet utilities.
4. Start the license server.
See platform-specific instructions in Starting the License Daemon with
LMTOOLS, on page 3-8, Starting the License Manager Daemon on Linux
Servers, on page 3-15, and Starting the Solaris License Manager Daemon,
on page 3-18.
5. Verify that the correct version of the synplctyd license daemon is running by
entering the following lmutil commands:
lmutil lmver synplctyd
lmutil lmver lmgrd
The correct version for both daemons is 10.8.2.1 or later.
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