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Chapter 6 FLEXnet Licensing SupportSome commands that sflexlm can handle are:startstoprestartstatusstatus -astatusdiaglogStarts the license manager. Before the license manager is started, sflexlm makessure another license manager is not already running. Also, a new log file is createdin “$SONNET_DIR/log”. By default, 5 log files are kept around.Stops the license manager by executing the lmdown command. If the lmdowncommand is not successful, you will be asked if you want to kill the licensemanager.Restarts the license manager by executing a “stop” then a “start”.Determines the status of the license manager.Determines the status of all of the licenses.Determines the status of a specific feature. To determine the names of the featuresuse “status -a”.Tries to get a license for the feature. Prints out diagnostic information if a licensecan not be obtained. Useful in determining why a license can not be obtained bya user.Prints out the last 10 lines of the license manager log file.You can either execute sflexlm as an interactive utility or you can run singlesflexlm commands by typing in “sflexlm ”. For example, to get thestatus of xgeom, type:sflexlm status xgeomThe program sflexlm actually executes FLEXnet commands and handles settingthe environment for these commands. From sflexlm you can execute FLEXnetcommands directly, like lmstat, lmhostid, lmdown, etc. For example, to get thestatus of the xgeom license, type:sflexlm lmstat -f xgeomFor a description of FLEXnet commands see the FLEXnet licensing End UserManual in the Chapter on License Administration Tools.Sflexlm assumes that the license file is stored in “$SONNET_DIR/licenses/license.dat”. When sflexlm runs, it automatically sets theSONNETD_LICENSE_FILE variable and includes the FLEXnet licensingexecutables into the PATH.51