Manually Stopping the License Server Manager

The allowStopServer command-line argument toggles the presence of the Stop Server button in the lmadmin user interface. The default is the Stop Server button is present. Click the Stop Server button in the Administration section of the license server management interface to shut down the license server manager (lmadmin) and all vendor daemons.

If lmadmin is started with the command-line argument -allowStopServer no, or if -allowStopServer no was the most recent use of the -allowStopServer argument, you cannot stop the license server using the license server management interface. In this situation, to stop the license server you must stop the lmadmin process.

On UNIX systems, you can use the ps utility to identify the process and the kill command to terminate it.

Caution:Do not use kill -9, use only kill with its default signal; otherwise, the license server will not shut down cleanly.

On Windows systems, you can use the Task Manager to identify the lmadmin.exe process and stop it.

You cannot restart the license server from the management interface. You must restart the license server as described in the previous section.