Contents

1

Licensing Overview

About This Reference

Overview of Cadence Licensing

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How to Configure Licensing

Configuring Licensing

What Do You Need to Know?

What Do You Do Now?

Configuring Licensing with Cadence Utilities

Configuring Licensing without Utilities

Configuring Licensing using Dongles

After You Configure Licensing

Backing Up Your Licensing Files

Letting Users Access Cadence Products

Managing Licenses

Creating an Options File

Reserving Licenses

Timing Out Idle Licenses

Disabling Automatic Reread

Restricting Access

Limiting Log-File Messages

Creating FlexNet report log Files

After Modifying the Options File

Setting Variables for IPv6 Network Support

CDS_LIC_USE_FLEX_11_16 (Client only)

FNP_IP_PRIORITY

FNP_IP_ENV (Client only)

Setting Up Fault-Tolerant License Servers

Running Two Versions of Cadence Software

Specifying Time-Outs

Client-Server

Idle Client

Specifying License Queuing Options

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License Maintenance

Tracking License Expiration

Server Model License Expiration Notification

Client Model License Expiration Notification

Monitoring Licensing

License and Daemon Status 

License Usage

Stopping and Starting the License Daemons

Stopping the License Daemons

Starting the License Daemons

Changing the License File

4

Setting Up Licensing on Windows

Overview

Verifying Networking

Configuring the License Server

Configuring the User's Workstation

Checking License Server Status

Restarting License Server

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Setting Up Licensing on Cloud

Software Requirements (on Linux)

Cloud License Server Use Model

Setting Up VPC and ENI on Amazon EC2

Generating a License for Amazon EC2

Migrating Amazon ENI Instances

Generating a License for GCE

Generating a License for Microsoft Azure

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Distributed and Heterogeneous Installations

Cadence Hierarchy

Licensing Files

Distributed Software Installations

Sharing Files among Platforms

Distributing Cadence Products across File Systems

Sample Automounting

Heterogeneous Networks

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How Licensing Works

Components of Licensing Configurations

License-Server Requirements

Cadence Licensing Tools

License File

Which Products Are in the License File?

Which Products Are Available?

Combining License Files from Other Vendors

How Licensing Components Interact

The License Server and the License File

Cadence Products and the License File

Methods of Locating License Files

Where Applications Look for Licenses

Types of Licensing Configurations

Single License Server

Multiple, Independent License Servers

Fault-Tolerant License Servers

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Licensing and Installation Commands

Licensing Utilities

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Cadence License Server Diagnostics Utilities

ServerStatus.exe

LicenseFileValidity.exe

FeatureValidity.exe

Run the Tests through GUI

Sample License File Test Runs

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Troubleshooting - Basic

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Troubleshooting - Detailed

General Troubleshooting Hints

Specific Problems

Daemons Are Not Running

You Cannot Find the License Debug Log File

The Hardware or Software Crashes

An Application Client Cannot Run the Software

Licenses Not Checked-in after Using lmremove

Error Messages and What to Do about Them

Licensing Error Messages reported by Cadence Products

Cadence Error Messages

FlexNet Error Messages

License Server/Configuration Error Messages

Error Message Syntax Description for Cadence releases prior to June 2006

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Supported Platforms and Compatibility

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Glossary