Communications Issues; Installation Notes - Novell ADMINSTUDIO 9.5 User Manual

Chapter 21: License-Enabling Packages Using FLEXwrap
Managing FLEXwrap License Files

Communications Issues

FLEXwrap supports either TCP or UDP communications transport. The default for FLEXwrap is TCP . This should
prove satisfactory in all circumstances; however, you have the option to select UDP communications. You can
select UDP in either of the following ways:
Table 21-13 • Methods to Select UDP Communications
Method
FLEXLM_COMM_TRANSPO
RT
COMM TRANSPORT
The order of precedence is:
1. Environment variable, if specified
2. Options file entry, if specified
3. Default TCP
Note • When using UDP , FLEXwrap uses a default UDP time out of five minutes.
• Windows systems must be correctly installed and configured with the standard Windows Socket (WinSock)
interface.

Installation Notes

When you install the FLEXwrap software, there are some things you should keep in mind:
•
Do not run the License Server as
strongly recommended that the License Server not be run as root. The license file generator (
and
swcrypter.exe
•
License Server daemons need to be installed
should be local to the system(s) on which they will run. So either install FLEXwrap on the machine where the
License Server will run or copy
not run License Servers on diskless nodes.
•
Binaries to be wrapped need to be able to access the
access to the Wrapper binary, either on a local drive or through a permanent NFS mount point. So either copy
the platform-specific Wrapper to each machine that contains a binary to be wrapped or NFS-mount the
FLEXwrap drive to all machines that contain binaries to be wrapped.
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Description
Set the
FLEXLM_COMM_TRANSPORT
C:\>set FLEXLM_COMM_TRANSPORT= UDP
Select the comm transport in the options file with the line:
TRANSPORT UDP
root—It is not necessary to install or run FLEXwrap as root and it is
), however, should be protected from execution by your general user community.
and
lmgrd swrap
environment variable:
locally—The License Server daemons (
to the machine where the License Server will run. You should
Wrapper—Each binary to be wrapped must have
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swsetup32.exe
and )
lmgrd swrap
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