Comments on: Setting Up & Configuring a Distributed License Server

By: Neil.

Neil. — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Sorry, this is an old post, but your page heading is “Setting Up & Configuring a Distributed License Server”. You’ve made no mention of how to set up a Distributed License Server? What you’ve done is explain how to set up a Single License Server, a distributed server is when you split the licenses across multiple servers and provide a certain level of fault tolerance. That might sound like me being a needless whinge, but I’m actually currently searching for some documentation on how to implement this in practice and came across this… I’m not having a go, just think you shouldn’t have titled this ‘Distributed’ as that means something totally different.

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By: Donnie Gladfelter

Donnie Gladfelter — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:50:29 +0000

@ nick – A network install shouldn’t ask you for an auth code, which makes me think your deployment may have installed as a standalone version. My recommendation would be to verify your deployment, making sure you have entered the correct server name(s) in there. You can also check which license servers your machine is looking to from the “HKCU\Software\FLEXlm License Manager” registry key. Anything beyond that I would recommend contacting your reseller, or submit a ticket through the Autodesk Subscription Center.

By: Donnie Gladfelter

Donnie Gladfelter — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:50:00 +0000

@ nick – A network install shouldn’t ask you for an auth code, which makes me think your deployment may have installed as a standalone version. My recommendation would be to verify your deployment, making sure you have entered the correct server name(s) in there. You can also check which license servers your machine is looking to from the “HKCUSoftwareFLEXlm License Manager” registry key. Anything beyond that I would recommend contacting your reseller, or submit a ticket through the Autodesk Subscription Center.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:15:27 +0000

I have the license server running and I have deployed civil design to a work station, but when I fire up civil design it still asks for the authorization code?

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:15:00 +0000

I have the license server running and I have deployed civil design to a work station, but when I fire up civil design it still asks for the authorization code?

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Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:58:22 +0000

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By: Andrew Bustraan

Andrew Bustraan — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:48:11 +0000

My issue in regards to license distribution is, our local office has 11 Revit Arch 2009/2008 licenses. Those are obtained just fine. We have a remote office in another city, connected by a fulltime VPN. Revit 2008 obtains a license just fine, when installing Revit 2009 on the same remote network, it will not obtain a license. Even when no other Revit Licenses aren’t being used.

Steps for troubleshooting:

Uninstall/reinstall
Specified in the Environment Variables to look for a specific ADeskFlex Server.
Specified in the Windows Registry to utilize a specific ADeskFlex License Server.
Configured a Firewall Service and Rule to insure that Port 2080 was open and unrestricted.
Can Ping the AdeskFlex License server by name and IP.
Can resolve the server via NSLookup to insure there’s no DNS issue.

Any Ideas?

By: Andrew Bustraan

Andrew Bustraan — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:48:00 +0000

Steps for troubleshooting:

Any Ideas?