Last Updated: 2021-03-02
Learn about the system administration commands and daemons that are used by License Manager.
IBM® Common Licensing uses the Flexera FlexNet Publisher from Flexera Software. The software includes the following components:
- A vendor daemon that is named ibmratl dispenses IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) or IBM Rational® licenses. The ibmratl daemon is used for IBM ELM or IBM Rational licensed products. If you have other products from other vendors that also use FlexNet software, they include their own vendor daemons.
- A license daemon named lmgrd. The lmgrd daemon does not process requests on its own, but forwards requests to the appropriate vendor daemon.
- A license file that you maintain. The license file specifies your license servers, vendor daemons, and product licenses.
Note: Use a single combined license file for all ELM or IBM Rational products.
To verify that your license manager is operational, you can enter these commands on your UNIX license server to determine whether its daemons are started:% ps axw | grep -v grep | egrep “lmgrd|ibmratl”
ori% ps -e | grep -v grep | egrep “lmgrd|bmratl”
The output includes lines like these lines (your path names might vary):
538 ?? S 0:03.50 /rational/base/cots/flexlm.7.0f/platform/lmgrd
-c /rational/config/servername.dat
-l /rational/config/servername.log
539 ?? I 0:00.90 ibmratl -T brazil 6.0 3 -c ...| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| lmdiag | Diagnoses problems when you cannot check out a license. |
| lmdown | Shuts down license and vendor daemons. |
| lmhostid | Reports license manager host ID of workstation. |
| lmremove | Returns specific licenses to license pool on license server. |
| lmreread | Rereads license file, starts new vendor daemons. |
| lmstat | Reports status on daemons and feature usage. |
| exinstal | Reports on ibmratl licenses in license file that you specify on the command line. The exinstal and exinstrl commands check the license file format and license codes to determine whether everything is consistent. |
| exinstrl | Reports on ibmratl licenses in license file that you specify on the command line. The exinstal and exinstrl commands checks the license file format and license codes to determine whether everything is consistent. |
| license_check | Runs the FlexNet lmstat command for counted licenses and the exinstal command for any license file (not port@host). The lmstat command queries the license server for a list of licenses that are in the license pool. The exinstal command checks the license file format and license codes to determine whether everything is consistent. |
