Summary of flexnetlsadmin Commands

Sets the license server base URL required in every command as the first option. For a local license server, use the following URL:

flexnetlsadmin.bat -server http://licenseServerURL/api/1.0/instances/instanceID 

For a CLS instance, use the URL that the producer provides, similar to this:

https://siteID.compliance.
flexnetoperations.com/api/1.0/instances/
instanceId 

Alternatively, set this value as the environment user variable FLEXNETLS_BASEURL on your machine so that you no longer have to include this option in the commands. See License Server URL Designation for more information.

Note:Use of the HTTPS protocol on the local license is strongly recommended when administrative security is enabled on the license server.

Shows all current user accounts on the license server.

Updates the password or role or both for the user account identified by userName.

Note:(Linux only) If you supply a password directly on the command line you may need to escape some characters with a backslash in order to prevent the shell from interpreting them. The safest approach is to surround the whole password with single quotes, and backslash any single quote that is part of the password.

Authorizes your access, as needed, to operations specified by any of the options listed below.

Shows information about the license server, including its status (as active, inactive, or suspended), its build and version, the back‑office URL, and other information.

The -suspend option temporarily suspends the license server (that is, the license server is still running but does not accept capability requests from client devices).

The -resume option ends the license server’s suspended state so that the server can proceed with normal operations.

Returns the current “selected” hostid—that is, the hostid currently used by the license server.

Activates licenses on the server by installing the specified number of copies of license rights (identified by the activation ID) from the back office. You can specify the ‑activate option multiple times to activate license rights from different activation IDs.

(Part 2 of an offline activation) Processes the offline capability-response binary file from the back office to install licenses on the license server.

Shows details about the features in the current license pool on the server.

Overwrites the current value for the specified policy setting. You can provide multiple value pairs separated by commas. For additional syntax formats, see Override Policy Settings.

Note:To determine which settings are editable, use “‑config” to list the settings; editable settings are marked with an asterisk. Additionally, when you use “-o” to write settings to a file, only editable settings are written. Another way to apply edits to multiple settings is to use “-filter category ‑o <filename>” to write the editable settings to file, edit the settings as needed, and then use “‑load <filename>” to apply the edits.

Writes the current, editable policy settings (except those is the general category) to the specified file in JSON format. This argument can be used with the -filter none option to write all editable settings to file or with the ‑filter category option (except for the general category) to limit the scope of editable settings written to the file.

Displays the model definition that is currently active, showing the partitions and rules.

Uploads the model definition to the license server. The contents of the file you are loading must be written according to the grammar in Model Definition Grammar and Syntax—EBNF.

Only one model definition can be active for each license server instance. You cannot upload a model definition with the name reservations or default, because these names are reserved.

Important:If you were previously using reservations, you must delete all reservation groups. Otherwise, uploading a model definition will fail.

Displays all partitions for the license server. The output lists information about every feature and every feature slice in each partition (feature slices are portions of feature counts allocated to a partition).

Provides a summary of the reservation groups, including each group’s ID, currently available to the license server.

The -group group_id option shows details—at the reservation (hostid) and reservation-entry (feature) levels—for the specified reservation group.

The -o filename option writes the reservation information in JSON format (for all groups or for the specified group ID) to a file.

Creates a reservation group and its reservation entries via a file containing the reservation definitions in JSON format.

Note:To make changes to a reservation group, delete the group and recreate it with the changes to the reservation definitions.

Important:If you were previously using partitions, you must delete the active model definition before creating reservations.

Deletes the specified reservation within the specified reservation group.

Shows both the current policy for a binding-break detection facility (enabled by the producer) and the current binding status as detected by this facility (ok, hard break, or soft break). If this facility is not enabled, the output indicates as such.