VERICUT Users' Forum

ben

Member

From: Samlesbury, UK

Registered: 2005-04-14

Posts: 7

License manager query

With the change over to the Sentinel license manager there is no way of kicking users off a license if the 'forget' to release it (after a pre-determined idle time), as there was with the old Flex License Manager. Hence ...

Are there any plans to go back over to FlexLM,

or

Are there any ways of killing licenses within Sentinel that we have missed? 

Have tried looking at the reservation files etc, however this seems to create more problems than it solves.

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Al_V

Senior Member

From: Cleveland/Akron, Ohio

Registered: 2004-11-11

Posts: 79

Re: License manager query

Yes,
We need a way to kill inactive licenses!!

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BillH

VERICUT Specialist

From: Irvine, CA

Registered: 2004-10-08

Posts: 146

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Re: License manager query

As far as I know, SafeNet (the provider of SentinelLM license software) does not provide a license management feature that can do a forced "check-in" of a license.

I assume you have some user who's started VERICUT, then walked away from his computer for an hour (or a week), and that license is now captive. The only thing I know to do is remotely log-in to the workstation running VERICUT, and kill the VERICUT process. After something less than 4 minutes (the internal watch-dog license timer limit), the licenses will be checked-in to the server.

The license server has no way of knowing if a VERICUT session is "inactive". So this determination has to be made by a system administrator.

Bill