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[aliborhan]

We have been using an old version (v 11) of License Manager on our Linux server for many years.  We just renewed our license and tried installing version 19.2 of the License Manager. Upon installation, we get the following error and cannot open the license manager:

Problems were encountered running the licensing configuration. 
Updating /home/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/init_ansysli ...

 

We tried installing the new LM in the same directory as the old one. Do we have to uninstall the old license manager first?  I would appreciate any help to resolve this issue.

[tsiriaks]

Hmm, then it's likely that your OS is very old. What is the output of this command

cat /etc/*release

Do you have ANSYS products installed under /home/ansysinc/ ? If not, I would recommend to wipe out this entire folder before trying the License Manager v19.2 installation. Also, make sure there is no ansysli_server, ansysli_monitor, lmgrd (from ANSYS), and ansyslmd running before you try the reinstall.

If issue persists, please post the entire content of install.err file under /home/ansysinc/

Thanks,

Win

[aliborhan]

Yes, our OS is old. The output is

CentOS release 5.4 (Final)

Our old LM is installed under /home/ansys_inc/ and that is where we tried to install 19.2.  Should we wipe out the ~ansys_inc directory and then install under /home/ansysinc/ ? We had stopped the license manager before installing. Below, I have attached the contents of install.err and install_licconfig.err from our first two installation attempts.

Thank you for your help.

Ali

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ANSYS installation: Fri Jun 14 16:57:59 2019
Revision: Release 19.2

   ###### Warnings/errors #######
   Warnings/errors were encountered while running the ANSYS License Manager configuration. Please check the install_licconfig.err file in the installation directory for details.
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ANSYS installation: Fri Jun 14 17:02:44 2019
Revision: Release 19.2

   ###### Warnings/errors #######
   Warnings/errors were encountered while running the ANSYS License Manager configuration. Please check the install_licconfig.err file in the installation directory for details.
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[aliborhan]

And here is install_licconfig.err

 

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2019/06/14 16:57:49  ...FATAL ERROR: The Tomcat server currently is running either from another installation directory or in a way that cannot be stopped.
                        It must be stopped before the licensing configuration can continue. Exiting.

 
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2019/06/14 17:020  ...ERROR: Attempt to execute the command to retrieve information used to determine whether the following file should be moved failed with exit code 127 and process status 0:
                        "/home/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/linx64/update/ansysli_client"
                        Therefore, this file will not be processed even though it may need to be moved. It will remain in the update directory.
2019/06/14 17:024  ...ERROR: Attempt to execute the command to retrieve information used to determine whether the following file should be moved failed with exit code 127 and process status 0:
                        "/home/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/linx64/update/ansysli_util"
                        Therefore, this file will not be processed even though it may need to be moved. It will remain in the update directory.
2019/06/14 17:02:40  ...ERROR: Attempt to run the following command failed with exit code 1 and process status 0:
                        "/home/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/linx64/ansysli_util" -updatesiteprefs
                     
2019/06/14 17:02:40    

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Start of update site preferences (product order) processing output

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                        ERROR:  Unknown option: -updatesiteprefs
                        Usage : /home/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/linx64/ansysli_util [-option argument] [-option] ...
                        [-log ]                           Logs the ansysli_util output to a file instead of stdout.
                        [-getlicpath [>]] Retrieve the license path for this installation.
                        [-printlicpath []]      Retrieve the license path for this installation and print to screen.
                        [-parseflexlog ]                  Parse the usage from the passed FLEXlm log.
                        [-parseflexlogusers ]             Parse the usage from the passed FLEXlm log and include remaining user list.
                        [-help]                                 Display this usage summary.
                        [-version []]                     Display the ansysli version information (long, short, build, or ali).
                        [-envvar []]                   Displays the value for the passed env var if passed or the values of several licensing related
                        environment variables.
                        [-hostinfo []]                Displays information on this [default] or supplied host.
                        [-timezone]                             Displays the ANSYS timezone value for this system.
                        [-statli []]                 Display the status information on the ansysli_server running on this system unless the port@host of
                        another system is supplied.
                        The following command line options pertain to site license preferences:
                        [-getsiteprefs ]                  Retrieve site license preferences and write them to the designated file.
                        [-savesiteprefs ]                 Save updated site license preferences from the designated file.
                        [-deletesiteprefs]                      Deletes the currently save site preferences.
                        The following command line options pertain to user preference retrieval/update for the designated revision (-revn):
                        [-revn ]                          Identify the ANSYS, Inc. revision to use for license preferences.
                        [-getuserprefs ]                  Retrieve current user's license preferences and write them to the designated file.
                        [-saveuserprefs ]                 Save current user's license preferences from the designated file.
                        [-deleteuserprefs]                      Deletes the current user's saved license preferences.
                        [-getavail ]                      Retrieve the list of available licensed features in an XML format.
                        [-cap ]                     The capability to retrieve usage for.
                        [-getcapdef ]                     Retrieve the capability availability in an XML format.
                        [-printcapdef []]                 Show capability availability.
                        [-capcount ]                Retrieve the number of available tasks for the given capability.
                        [-printliccapdef []]              Show licensed capability availability.
                        [-getqueueusage ]                 Retrieve the list of queued capabilities in an XML format.
                        [-purge_wb_usage ]                Cleaning up the usage data that is older than the Specified number of days.
                        [-printqueueusage []]             Show current queue usage.
                        [-printavail]                           Print an easy to read list of available licensed products.
                        [-printusage]                           Show current usage.
                        [-getcn]                                Print the list of available customer numbers.
                        The following options are for license test checkouts:
                        [-prefsvr ]                     Specify a preferred server to connect to.
                        [-preffeat ]                   Specify a preferred feature to checkout.
                        [-andcap ]            Capability(ies) to AND with the checkout capability. Separate multiple values with ':'.
                        [-checkloop <#>]                        Number of times to loop requesting the following checkout(s) (see -checkout option).
                        [-checkcount <#>]                       Number of tasks to checkout per request with the following checkout(s) (see -checkout option).
                        [-checkout ]        Checkout specified capability or feature.
                        The following options are for reserved licenses:
                        [-reserve_list]                         Display the active list of license reserves.
                        [-return_reserve_by_id ]     Return Reserve for the ID specified.
                        [-return_reserve_by_user ]        Return Reserves for the specified user.
                        [-return_reserve_all]                   Return all outstanding Reserves for all users.
                        The following options are to list/remove used licenses:
                        [-liusage [<user]@[host]:[pid]:][feature]> Display the list of used licenses.
                        [-liremove <[user]@[host][id]>]       Return the license used by the specified user.
2019/06/14 17:02:40    

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End of update site preferences (product order) processing output

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                     ...ERROR: The automatic updating of any existing site preferences (product order) failed. If site preferences have not been set on this
                        license server machine, you may ignore this error. If site preferences have been set or you're not sure, please refer to the following
                        Troubleshooting section in the ANSYS Licensing Guide for additional details:
                        License Manager Installation's Licensing Configuration Step to Update Site Preferences (Product Order) Failed

[tsiriaks]

You can use /home/ansys_inc/ , I just copied the path that you posted earlier, maybe there was some issue during the post.

Let's neglect the fact that the OS is not supported for now (this might be the issue).

Try kill all ANSYS processes including Tomcat

wipe the entire  /home/ansys_inc/

install LSB (yum install redhat-lsb) 

then install ANSYS License Manager 19.2 

do you still get any error ?

Thanks,

Win

[aliborhan]

Do I need to uninstall the old license manager or is it sufficient to just remove the directory /home/ansys_inc? 

We have a large number of cases that run in v14.5 and that is why we have not updated the software. If I remove the /home/ansys_inc directory, would I lose the ansys 14.5 program files?

I tried installing LSB using the command you provided, but got the following error message:

Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=x86_64&repo=addons error was

[Errno 4] IOError:

Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: addons

 

Thanks,

Ali

 

[tsiriaks]

Hi Ali,

Ah, I didn't know that the same machine is also running ANSYS products (v14.5) . 

You don't need to uninstall License Manager but you definitely can't remove the /home/ansys_inc/ 

For issue installing LSB, I'm not sure about this but you can check some suggestions here

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/22924/how-can-i-fix-cannot-find-a-valid-baseurl-for-repo-errors-on-centos

The LSB is required for later versions of ANSYS License Manager, so you would need to get this installed successfully first.

Thanks,

Win

 

[aliborhan]

Hi Win,

We installed LSB and tried to install the LM, but got an installation error again.  Here are the contents of install.err and install_licconfig.err

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ANSYS installation: Fri Jun 21 11:06:29 2019

Revision: Release 19.2

   ###### Warnings/errors #######

   Warnings/errors were encountered while running the ANSYS License Manager configuration. Please check the install_licconfig.err file in the installation directory for details.

 

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2019/06/21 11:06:20  ...FATAL ERROR: The Tomcat server did not stop correctly. Please check permissions and the Tomcat log files at the following location:

                        /home/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/tools/tomcat/logs

                        The licensing configuration cannot continue until this issue is resolved. Exiting.

 

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Any suggestions? Thanks.

Ali

[tsiriaks]

Hi Ali,

Let's do this

kill all ANSYS related processes including any tomcat processes

remove the /home/ansys_inc/shared_files folder

reinstall

does this make any difference ?

Thanks,

Win

[aliborhan]

Hi Win,

I did what you said and the installation completed with warnings/errors.  I then reread the license file that was sent to me and received the error shown below:

Thanks.

Ali

 

[tsiriaks]

Hi Ali,

Please post the error from /home/ansys_inc/*.err files

Also, try starting this manually from command to see more error. You can use the following command with root privileges

/home/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/start_ansysli

If issue persists, post the content of

/home/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/ansysli_server.log

and

/home/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/license.log

Thanks,

Win

[aliborhan]

Hi Win,

Starting from command line results in the following error:

[root@head ~]# /home/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/start_ansysli

/home/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/linx64/ansysli_server: error while loading shared libraries: liblber-2.4.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

There are no *.log files in /home/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing.

[root@head licensing]# ls /home/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing

ansysli_data       init_ansyslm_tomcat  linx64         start_lmcenter

ansys_pid          language             logs_backup    stop_ansysli

gatherdiagnostics  lic_admin            prodord        stop_lmcenter

 

init_ansysli       license_files        start_ansysli  tools

 

 

I will post the contents of /home/ansys_inc/*.err files in the next post.

Thanks.

Ali

[aliborhan]

Here are the contents of /home/ansys_inc/*.err files:

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ANSYS installation: Fri Jun 21 12:44:24 2019

Revision: Release 19.2

   ###### Warnings/errors #######

   Warnings/errors were encountered while running the ANSYS License Manager configuration. Please check the install_licconfig.err file in the installation directory for details.

 

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2019/06/21 12:44:24  ...ERROR: Attempt to run the following command failed with exit code 127 and process status 0:

                        "/home/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/linx64/ansysli_util" -updatesiteprefs                     

2019/06/21 12:44:24     

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Start of update site preferences (product order) processing output

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                        /home/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/linx64/ansysli_util: error while loading shared libraries: liblber-2.4.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

2019/06/21 12:44:24     

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End of update site preferences (product order) processing output

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                     ...ERROR: The automatic updating of any existing site preferences (product order) failed. If site preferences have not been set on this

                        license server machine, you may ignore this error. If site preferences have been set or you're not sure, please refer to the following

                        Troubleshooting section in the ANSYS Licensing Guide for additional details:

                        License Manager Installation's Licensing Configuration Step to Update Site Preferences (Product Order) Failed

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[tsiriaks]

The systems does not have liblber-2.4.so.2 which is included in openldap package. I can't find the exact version for your CentOS 5.4 as it's too old, ref:

https://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=liblber-2.4.so.2

or

https://pkgs.org/download/liblber-2.4.so.2()(64bit)

I strongly recommend updating your OS version.

But if you want to try and push through this, this forum might help (with this current issue)

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/libldap-2-4-so-2-cannot-open-shared-object-file-no-such-file-or-directory-4175548855/

Thanks,

Win

 

[aliborhan]

Hi Win,

We uninstalled the old license manager and then installed version 17 of LM.  It installed without any errors.  No errors in the *.err files.  When tried to read the license file it shows the following error:

 

We then started ansysli manually as you suggested and the command was executed without error. However, when we tried to start from the license manager center, we still got the same error as shown above. Now we do have an ansysli_server.log file.  I am sending you the content in the next post. It complains that no initialization file is found.  I noticed that init_ansysli and init_ansyslm_tomcat are not in the /etc/init.d directory.  Shouldn't they be there?

Thanks.

Ali

[aliborhan]

Hi Win,

 

We were able to install LM 17.0 without any OS issues.  The problem is getting the license manager to start.  I posted the log file that you had asked for. Thanks.

 

Ali

[tsiriaks]

Ali,

The initialization file (ansyslmd.ini) is required only when you try to launch product (Mechanical, Fluids) , it's not required to start License Manager. You still have issue starting ansysli_server successfully (please make sure port 2325 is open, which is used by ansysli_server)

Kill all ANSYS related processes, then try this command

/home/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/linx64/ansysli_server -k start

what error do you see ?

Thanks,

Win

[aliborhan]

Hi Win,

 

It does not like the "-k start" option. Here is the error:

[root@head ~]# /home/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/linx64/ansysli_server -k start

ERROR:  Unknown option: -k

 

Usage : /home/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/linx64/ansysli_server [-option argument] [-option] ...

 

      [-help]                             Show help/usage information.

      [-log ]                       Log debug ansysli_server usage information to the designated file.

      [-logtype ]                   Indicates the level of debug (either STANDARD [default] or CONNECTIONS or VERBOSE) that should be logged.

      [-ijou ]                      Specify the input journal file

      [-ojou ]                      Specify the output journal file

      [-monitorlog ]                Sets the log file for the monitor.

      [-port_timeout ]           Specifies the time to wait for the server's port to clear.

      [-restart_port_timeout ]   Specifies the monitor's wait time for the server's port to clear.

      [-nodaemon]                         Do not daemonize the server.

      [-noflex]                           Forces ansysli_server to NOT start FLEXlm, the default is to start it.

      [-cacheflexlic]                     Designates the FLEXlm license file to cache.  This option is valid only when used with -noflex option.

      [-cache_srv ]              License servers to be cached at startup.

      [-UseFlexOpts ]       Indicate if the ANSYS Licensing Interconnect should process the FLEXlm options file entries.

      [-UseClientIp ]       Indicate if the ANSYS Licensing Interconnect should use the IP address passed by the client when handling 

                                          FLEXlm options file entries.

      [-UseLmProject ]      Indicate if the ANSYS Licensing Interconnect should use the LM_PROJECT passed by the first client when 

                                          checking out licenses.

      [-IpOverride ]        Indicate if the ANSYS Licensing Interconnect should override the IP passed to FLEXlm.  Default is to 

                                          override.

      [-nomonitor]                        Do not start the ansysli monitor.

      [-ini ]                   Read the startup options from the designated ansysli initialization (ansyslmd.ini) file.

      [-report ]               Log usage information to the designated directory.

      [-version []]                 Display the ansysli version information (long, short, build, ali, or revn).

      [-user]                             Only the user who started the server can shut it down.

      [-group ]                    Only a member of the given group can shutdown the server.

      [-reservegroup ]        Identify the group or (comma separated list of) groups that are allowed to return reserved licenses for all 

                                          users.

      [-reserveuser ]          Identify the user or (comma separated list of) users that are allowed to return reserved licenses for all 

                                          users.

      [-queuing_interval ]       Specify the queuing interval when checkout attempts are performed on queued requests.

      [-max_queued_requests ]     Specify the number of maximum queued requests.

      [-usage_archive_interval ] Specify the number of minutes before archiving WB license usage tracking information, defaults to 60 

                                          minutes.

      [-purge_wb_usage ]            Specify the number of days to keep archived WB license usage tracking information before purging it, 

                                          defaults to 28 days.

      [-dp_reserve ]        Indicate if the ANSYS Licensing Interconnect should allow the DesignPoint Reserve or not. It is "on" by 

                                          default.

      [-wb_usage ]          Specify whether or not WB license usage tracking is supported, default is to support it.

      [-ignore_flexsvr ] Identifies the host name, ip, or comma separated list of FLEXlm server or servers that should be 

                                          ignored for all FLEXlm operations.

      [-IdleTimeoutMax ]         Specify the maximum timeout value before an idle license is returned. Defaults to 1200 seconds (20 minutes).

      [-fnp_ip_env ]        Bypass hostname resolution during the checkout call.

      [-fnp_restart_attempts ]    Specify the number of times the ANSYS Licensing Interconnect should attempt to restart the FlexNet server.

      [-c ]                            Forwarded to FLEXlm lmgrd: Designates the FLEXlm license file.

      [-l ]                            Forwarded to FLEXlm lmgrd: Designates the FLEXlm debug log file.

      [-local]                            Forwarded to FLEXlm lmgrd: See FLEXlm End User's Guide for description.

      [-x ]                            Forwarded to FLEXlm lmgrd: See FLEXlm End User's Guide for description.

      [-k info [port@host]]               Return information on the server running at port@host(*)

      [-k reread [port@host]]             Reread information for the server running at port@host(*).

      [-k stop [port@host]]               Stop the server running at port@host(*)

      [-k stop_triad [port@host]]         Stop the server running at port@host(*) and its associated triad servers.

      *                                   If port@host is not given, tries to detect

                                          a running server on the localhost automatically.

 

[tsiriaks]

Try this instead

 /home/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/linx64/ansysli_server &

[aliborhan]

Hi Win, 

Here is what we got after executing the command and checking ports. 

Thanks.

Ali

[tsiriaks]

Hi Ali,

What is showing in the ansysli_server.log ?

[aliborhan]

Hi Win,

Here is the ansysli_server.log:

               

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NORMAL STARTUP 2019/06/26 14:503

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                ANSYS Licensing Interconnect version 1.7.0 (20151130) for linx64.  Updated at ANSYS Build 17.0.  Started on 2019/06/26 14:503 by root@head:linx64 with pid 13649.

                (C) 2015 SAS IP, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

                Unauthorized use, distribution, or duplication is prohibited:

                Built Using FlexNet Publisher v11.13.1.2 build 173085 x64_lsb

 

               

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                Please note that entries in this debug log have the following format:

 

TIMESTAMP              ACTION              FEATURE                    REVISION (BUILD DATE)             A/B/C/D                 W/X/Y/Z   PID:MPID:APP:USER@HOSTLATFORMISPLAY                                    SOCKET:IP           

 

                Licenses statistics:

               

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                A is the number of licenses requested by this ACTION.

                B is the number of licenses used by this USER.

                C is the number of licenses used by all users.

                D is the number of licenses available in the local license pool.

 

                License server performance statistics:

               

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                W is the number of currently connected client applications.

                X is the maximum number of connected client applications.

                Y is the unique serial number of this client application.

                Z is the number of all client applications served by this Licensing Interconnect server.

 

               

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2019/06/26 14:503    INFO                ANSYSLI_CMD=/home/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/linx64/ansysli_server

2019/06/26 14:503    INFO                ANSYSLI_INITIALIZATION_FILE=No initialization file found.

2019/06/26 14:503    INFO                ANSYSLI_MONITOR=/home/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/linx64/ansysli_monitor

2019/06/26 14:503    INFO                ANSYSLI_PRODORD_FILE='/home/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/prodord/ansysli.prodord.xml'

2019/06/26 14:504    INFO                FLEXLM_LICENSE_FILE='/home/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/license_files' 

 

Thanks,

Ali

[tsiriaks]

Ali,

Do you have any kind of security or Firewall running (like SELinux , Iptables, Firewalld , etc.)  ?

Can you try turning them all off before starting the License Manager ?

It's odd that it doesn't show any error but ansysli_server never starts.

Thanks,

Win

[aliborhan]

Hi Win,

I have stopped lptables so it does not seem to be a firewall issue.  It seems like the license manager cannot find the license server.  When I try to set license preferences, I get the error "could not connect to any license server".  The head node on our cluster is the license server and the external IP address for the cluster was recently changed. Could that be causing a problem?  The first few lines in the license file are as follows:

SERVER head 003048dc8258 1055

VENDOR ansyslmd

USE_SERVER

The host name "head" is associated with the cluster's internal IP address in the /etc/hosts file so the external IP should not make a difference when I try to start the license manager right on the head node. Correct? Any other suggestions? 

Thanks.

Ali

 

[tsiriaks]

Hi Ali,

I don't think this would be related to IP resolution issue but you can try this

create /home/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/ansyslmd.ini   file

with content

SERVER=1055@localhost

ANSYSLI_SERVERS=2325@localhost

ANSYSLI_EXTERNAL_IP=your_external_ip

 

then modify the content of license file in /home/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/license_files  

from

SERVER head 003048dc8258 1055

to

SERVER 127.0.0.1 003048dc8258 1055

and try starting the ansysli_server again

Thanks,

Win

[tsiriaks]

Hi Ali,

So, it's like what I thought. This has nothing to do with IP resolution. It's just ansysli_server couldn't start on port 2325 for some reason.

If everything is working correctly, your next line is supposed to show

INFO                ANSYSLI_PORT=2325 

Because ansysli_server couldn't start, you can't use any feature that would call it. That includes setting license preferences.

It's something on the systems preventing this or it's just because of the OS incompatibility.

Thanks,

Win

[aliborhan]

 

Hi Win,

If it were an OS incompatibility, wouldn't the installation of the license manager lead to error? CentOS 5 was still being updated when LM 17 came out so I would think it should be compatible with LM 17. The only change to our server from last year is that it has been moved to a new data center and has a new external IP address. I was told that the data center firewall is allowing communication to ports 2325 and 1055.  Would the external IP play any role here? Does the license file have to be changed?  The Hostid is the same as before.

If we were to use a new Windows machine as our license server instead (to bypass the current problem), could we still use our linux cluster to run fluent in parallel using our HPC licenses or does that introduce new issues?

 

Thank you for your help.

Ali

 

 

[tsiriaks]

Hi Ali,

Installing is a different story than running.

Here is the link for platform support dated back to v16.0

https://www.ansys.com/solutions/solutions-by-role/it-professionals/platform-support/previous-releases

Particularly the link for 17.0 is here

https://www.ansys.com/-/media/ansys/corporate/files/pdf/solutions/it-professionals/platform-support/platform-support-by-application-17.pdf?la=en&hash=552BB2920F630DEB9EB6428D2D4AC48A3659C8AD

Again, IP has nothing to do with this issue (and no, you do not need a new license file just for IP change). Even if port 2325 was not open, it'd have shown an error about it but, in your case, it just disappears.

All licensing functionality is the same regardless of where you host the license as long as you have network communications configured with it.

Thanks,

Win

[aliborhan]

Hi Win,

We installed LM17 on our Windows server (E5-CHE-ANSYSLIC) and started the license server.  On our Linux cluster, we specified the new license server and tried running fluent. We get the following error:

ANSYS LICENSE MANAGER ERROR: Could not connect to any license server.

The server is down or is not responsive.

       ANSYSLI_SERVERS: 2325@E5-CHE-ANSYSLIC

       FLEXlm Servers: 1055@E5-CHE-ANSYSLIC

 

Cannot find license file.

 The license files (or license server system network addresses) attempted are

listed below.  Use LM_LICENSE_FILE to use a different license file, 

 or contact your software provider for a license file.

Feature:           fluent

Filename:        /home/ansys_14.5.7/ansys_inc/v145/fluent/license/lnamd64/../license.dat

License path:  /home/ansys_14.5.7/ansys_inc/v145/fluent/license/lnamd64  -

       / ../license.dat

FLEXnet Licensing error:-1,359.   System Error:  2 "No such file or directory"

 

We can ping E5-CHE-ANSYSLIC from the cluster so the error that it cannot connect to the license server is puzzling. It looks like the cluster is trying to find the license file in its old location on the Linux machine (when we were using the Linux head node as the license server).  Can you tell us what we need to do on the client side (the Linux cluster) with LM17? 

 

Thank you for your help.

Ali

[ANSYS_MMadore]

Hello Ali,

 

Can you make sure that the Windows server is open for communications? If there is a firewall, you will need to have exceptions for these licensing executables.

lmgrd

ansyslmd

ansysli_server

ansysli_monitor

ansysli_client

 

You can test by running a telnet from the Linux side to the Windows server on these specific ports.

telnet E5-CHE-ANSYSLIC 1055

telnet E5-CHE-ANSYSLIC 2325

 

Thank you,
Matt