Answers Database Workstation licensing, XACT 5.0: Use XLMCON to debug them. Record #403 Problem Title: Workstation licensing, XACT 5.0: Use XLMCON to debug them. Problem Description: Solution 1: In $XACT/bin/<platform>, where <platform> is one of: sparc, hppa, apollo, there is a program called xlmcon. This program can be used to help in the debugging of workstation licensing problems. After starting it, type "help" to see the help text, which is also shown below: Commands for XLMCON: ------------------- which -- Show name of license file hostname -- Show the hostname of this computer hostid -- Show the hostid of this computer quick_check [-a] -- Check out/in first [all] XXACTD feature(s) in license verify [-y] -- Verify encryption of all XXACTD features in license list [feature] -- List users of features in use [only of feature] list -a -- List all features, showing current users show [feature] -- Show license file lines [only containing feature] checkout feature -- Check out the named feature checkin feature -- Check in the named feature reread -- Tell DAEMON to reread FEATUREs from license file startup or start -- Start the license server (using xlmasu) shutdown or stop -- Stop the license server version -- Show the versions of the licensing programs sn -- Show the contents of the serial number file help or ? -- Print this list of commands exit or quit -- exit from the XLMCON program End of Record #403 - Last Modified: 01/03/96 12:35

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