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INTERNAL: Windows IDL: Command line installation of the ITT FLEXnet license manager service

David Blackston
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Normally on Windows, the ITT FLEXnet license manager is automatically configured by entering a license server-based license file text into the ITT product License Wizard program. The wizard detects that a license manager service is required, and then provides the user with the option to install the license manager service.

Another option is manually configure a new ITT product FLEXnet license manager service via the Config Services tab of the LMTools.exe utility that is included with the ITT product installation.

A third, although rarely used, option is to install the ITT FLEXnet license manager service via a command line utility, install_lm_server.exe, that is included with the ITT product installation.

This article discusses this third option, installing the ITT FLEXnet license manager service on Windows via the "install_lm_server.exe" command line utilty.Discussion:
Installing the service

Here are the steps to use the "install_lm_server.exe" command line utility to install (or remove) the license manager service on Windows:

1.) Log in as a user with administrative privileges.

2.) Open a DOS command prompt window (select Start menu -> Run and enter into the Run dialog: CMD and return. The command window should appear.)

3.) Change directories to the [IDL-directory]\bin\bin.x86 directory of your ITT product installation. For example:

    cd C:\Program Files\ITT\IDL64\bin\bin.x86\

4.) From there, issue the following commands to install the default configuration of the ITT FLEXnet license manager service. For example (one very long line):

    install_lm_server.exe -c "C:\Program Files\ITT\license\license.dat" -e "C:\Program Files\ITT\IDL64\bin\bin.x86\lmgrd.exe" -l "C:\Program Files\ITT\license\lmgrd_debug.txt" -n "ITT FLEXnet License Manager"

Removing the service

To uninstall the license manager service from a DOS command line use the -r and -n switches to "install_lm_server.exe". For example (as an administrative user):

    install_lm_server.exe -r -n "ITT FLEXnet License Manager"

Command line options for install_lm_server.exe

Issue the install_lm_server.exe command by itself to view all of the command switch options. For example:

C:\Program Files\ITT\IDL64\bin\bin.x86>install_lm_server.exe
installs - Copyright (c) 1989-2005 Macrovision Europe Ltd. and/or Macrovision Corporation.
All Rights Reserved.

Usage:
        To install the license manager as a service:
          installs -c  \
                   -e  \
                   -l  \
                   -n  \
                   [-k ]

        To remove the license manager as a service:
          installs -r -n 

If -n is not specified, "FLEXlm License Manager" is used as the service name.

The -k switch is optional and is used to pass one or more startup command-line
parameters (-local, -x lmdown, and -x lmremove) to lmgrd.

Refer to the FLEXnet Licensing Programming and Reference Guide for more 
details on the "installs" command.

C:\Program Files\ITT\IDL64\bin\bin.x86>

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