LipService/LBrush Licensing(Windows)

 Step I. - retrieving ID info

1. Install the RLM Package

  • Run the RLM_LBrush.exe on your server machine and follow the instructions. We do not recommend you change any installation options. Two license server executables (rlm.exe, joealter.exe) and number of utility programs get installed in "c:\program files\rlm_joealter" directory.

2. Generate the hostid

  • Open the "c:\program files\rlm_joealter" folder. (\Users\Shared\rlm for OSX, and \usr\local\rlm for linux)
  • Execute the hostid_rlm script , it will write the hostid of your server into a file called 'hostid.txt'

3. Send hostname and hostid to Joe Alter Inc.

  • Send the hostid.txt file via e-mail to joe@lbrush.com
Step II. - deploying license

1. Place the license file on the server

  • Place the license file (mayaLBrushLIC.lic) in the following directory path:
    c:\rlm for Windows
    \Users\Shared\rlm for Osx
    \usr\local\rlm for Linux

2. Set up the environment on client computers

If you are running shave on the same system as the license server, you can skip this step entirely.

To set up licensing for a client computer, you can either put the license file into local dirs of ths same path as step 1, or you can set up an environment variable to point at the actual file.

Define the RLM_LICENSE environment variable on each client machine were LipService/LBrush is installed and specify the license file location.
To set an environment variable in windows, go to start->control panel->system->advanced->environment variables

There are two methods to point the client at the server

  • point to the .lic file set RLM_LICENSE to be the path to your license file 'c:/some_dir'. You can use either a local or a network path, a local path, of course requires that the license be on the client machine, but it will find the license faster in the case of heavy traffic.
  • point to the server port (the server is on the same machine), you only need to define <port>@<host>. The port is set in the .lic file, you can change it to any number but the default its 2764, so if your machine name reported in the hostid.txt file is 'john' (as above) then it would be "2764@john".
  • You can do both Separate path with a ";" (for example "/var/myapp/licenses;2764@john")

Make sure you don't have software firewalls turned on, or hardware firewalls between the server and client - if you do make sure you know how to open up the port (2764).


3. Reboot

  • Now that you have set it all up, it's time to reboot your server machine to get the license server started.
    (when you come back from the reboot, both of these processes should show up in task manager : rlm.exe joealter.exe)

MORE INFORMATION : the license manager (RLM) has their own set of end user docs here

 

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