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This task explains how to reserve static product licenses during a session using the Licensing tab via the Tools > Options... command. The term "static" is used in opposition to "dynamic": you need to restart a session after acquiring a static license, whereas shareable product licenses can be acquired and used immediately without restarting a session. |
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1. Select the Tools > Options... command. |
2. Select the General category, then the Licensing
tab to display the License Manager. The role of the License Manager is to allow you to reserve licenses before using these products. You will not be able to work with any Version 5 products until you have first reserved the corresponding licenses. If you are using network licensing, selecting this tab contacts any license servers to update the list of available configurations and products. You must select at least one configuration license. In our example, it will look like this if you installed the configurations CATIA - Mechanical Design (MD2) and CATIA - Drawing Production (DP2), and imported a nodelock license for the CATIA - Mechanical Design (MD2) configuration: DSLS Licensing tab:
LUM Licensing tab:
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Licensing Information |
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The "Licensing Information" section contains the following information:
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Licensing Setup |
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The "Licensing Setup" section contains the following information:
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License Expiry Date WarningsInformation about license expiry dates is already available via either the Enrolling LUM Nodelock Licenses After the Installation or Enrolling DSLS Nodelock Licenses After the Installation which list nodelock licenses and the remaining validity duration using a color code:
Regarding concurrent licenses, License Server Administration tools allow the administrator to manage licenses and in particular to determine license expiry dates. But neither method provides end users with advanced warning of imminent license expiry. Setting the License Expiry AlertThe Alert control:
is set by default to 30 days, and is enable by default. This means that if a granted license is going to expire within 30 days, a warning popup will be displayed like this: For DSLS:
For LUM:
The popup is displayed as soon as a license is granted. This means that the popup will appear each time you start a session (because the licensing settings specifying that a nodelock license is granted are read at startup) or when you select a shareable license (because the license is granted immediately). Note that:
The alert is available only for nodelock (and consequently offline) licenses. If more than one license is about to expire, the popup will display a message like this: For DSLS:
For LUM:
In the case of batch licensing, the equivalent information is written to the batch log file. |
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List of Available Configurations/Products |
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The list contains ALL the installed configurations and products. Note
that nothing prevents you from installing software for which you do not
have the corresponding license, so the list may contain software for which
you do not have a license.
Note that, if you have not previously reserved any licenses, none of the check buttons is checked. If you are working with a nodelocked license, the license will be reserved by default when you start a session, even if you unchecked the corresponding button. If you entered a nodelock license during the installation, the corresponding configuration is preselected in the list. In the DSLS example, the MD2 option is checked because we imported a nodelock license for this configuration (CATIA - Mechanical Design (MD2) during the installation. In the LUM example, the MD2 option is checked because we imported a nodelock license for this configuration (CATIA - Mechanical Design (MD2) (DS4D8E940000 - MD2) during the installation. On LUM only, the "+" button is displayed next to the license in the list. Clicking this button lets you switch between compact mode (the default) and expanded mode. In compact mode, the license imported is already reserved. On LUM only, click the "+" button to switch to expanded mode. In this mode, a sublist is displayed containing the list of all the installed licenses, preceded by the "Any License" option. |
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All configurations are considered as custom configurations. When you
install a configuration, the list of configurations/products is organized
as follows, in the order of appearance from top to bottom:
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How To Reserve Licenses |
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To find out how many licenses are available for a specific
configuration or product, click the "+" button to display the list like
this (LUM only):
Your administrator instruct you specifically to reserve a specific license with a specific serial number in the list. In this case, check the button for the corresponding license. You can also reserve a license for an individual product. |
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Any License (LUM only)
For a variety of reasons, (network performance, license availability, ...) you may decide to install several identical configuration licenses on different license servers. Furthermore, these licenses may have identical serial numbers, but they may also have different serial numbers. If you are interested in using a specific configuration, irrespective of the serial number, and you do not care which server serves the license, check the Any License option. This means that you want to reserve any one of the licenses for that configuration in the list. In this case, the software reserves by itself one of the available licenses. If the software finds a valid nodelock license on your computer, the nodelock license will be used first. If there is no nodelock license, or the nodelock license is not valid, the software will reserve a network license from the list of license servers. Note: each license has its own serial number. The same configuration license can exist on several servers but with different, unique serial numbers. Once a serial number is determined (when a license is acquired), it cannot be modified during the same session. This means that if the license server which provides the license using the Any License option becomes unavailable, the session will stop: the license will not be replaced by a license for the same configuration from a different server, because the serial numbers are different. |
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Below each configuration or product license, you will see Local
or Server which informs you whether the license is a nodelock
(local) license or a server license. If you are using a server license, the
name of the server will be displayed like this:
where "servername" is the name of the license server. |
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The status Granted
appears next to the products in the list which belong to a configuration
whose license you reserved. The name of the license that granted access to
the product is indicated in parentheses. |
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The status Not
Granted means
that you have not requested a configuration or product license, or that you
attempted to reserve a license that is not available (nodelock license
expired, server license expired, network server down, etc.). The status No License appears next to configurations and products which have been installed, but for which you do not have a license. The configuration and product names are grayed out in the list, and the check buttons cannot be checked. |
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Click the "-" button to return to compact mode (LUM only). | |
3. After checking the appropriate license buttons, click OK. | |
4. Exit and restart your session. You need to restart your session after reserving configuration and/or product licenses. Licensing settings are stored in a settings file. The settings active in the License tab depend on what you set the last time you used it. |
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If you run a Version 5 session in administrator mode, you can lock
individual configuration and/or product licenses to control their usage.
For background information about locking settings, refer to Locking Settings. |
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Troubleshooting MessagesYou may encounter one of the following messages (the list is not
exhaustive) when using the Licensing Manager: |
Environment xxx not set or incorrect. Please set an
environment using the setcatenv command Set a valid
environment using the setcatenv command. For more information about
customizing environments, refer to Customizing
Your Environment on Windows. |
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No Configuration/Product Available The path
containing the information required to display the list of
configurations/products, referenced by the CATICPath environment variable,
is incorrect, or the information is incomplete. |
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There is no suitable license to fulfill the xxx request
You tried to reserve a license when all available licenses are used.
Contact your administrator. See Show License
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You have requested one or more product licenses, but no
configuration license. Click OK and select at least one configuration
license using the License Manager dialog box. You tried to reserve
only a product license. Click OK and select at least one configuration
license using the License Manager. |
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No License Available for Requested Configuration(s)
Click OK and select at least one valid configuration license using the
Licensing tab. |
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Not All Licenses Available Contact your administrator. |
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