License Server Manager “lmadmin”

The license server manager is one of the components that makes up a license server (the other being the vendor daemon). It handles the initial contact with FlexEnabled applications, passing the connection on to the appropriate vendor daemon. The purpose of the license server manager is to:

• Start and maintain vendor daemons as required for serving license rights from different software publishers.
• Refer application checkout (or other) requests to the correct vendor daemon.

There are two versions of the license server manager:

• lmadmin—The Web-based license server manager
• lmgrd—The original license server manager with a command-line interface

This section describes lmadmin. For information about lmgrd, see License Server Manager “lmgrd”.

lmadmin provides improved methods of managing the license server and vendor daemons. A brief description of the improved capabilities follows. For a more detailed comparison of lmgrd and lmadmin, see Migrating from lmgrd to lmadmin.

lmadmin Capabilities

• Direct configuration of the vendor daemons and license server manager—License-server port number, vendor-daemon path and port, and three-server redundant port can be configured without any edits to the license files.
• Configurable alerts—You can set up lmadmin to issue alerts to warn you of potential problems (for example, license expiry, no available licenses, or vendor daemon status).
• License rights status display—The lmadmin user interface provides a display of all available and in-use license rights. This display can include all concurrent (floating) licenses both from license files and from trusted storage. It can also include activatable and hybrid licenses (held in trusted storage) when these are available on the license server.
• Command-line functions accessed by option buttons—For example, the Stop Server and Reread License Files buttons perform the same actions as the lmdown and lmreread functions, respectively. For a list of license administration functions that are available directly from lmadmin, see lmadmin License Administration Functions.
• Minimal editing of license files—Option file specification requires editing.

This release of lmadmin is available for use on a limited number of platforms. For full details, contact your software publisher or see the FlexNet Publisher Release Notes. lmadmin is compatible with licensing components from version 9.2 or later. See Version Compatibility Between Components for detailed information on how to determine what versions of the licensing components are provided in your licensed applications.