Answers Database M1.4/M1.5: Instructions on how to install and run the license manager standalone on sun/solaris/hp workstations Record #2851 Product Family: Software Product Line: Merged Core Product Part: security Problem Title: M1.4/M1.5: Instructions on how to install and run the license manager standalone on sun/solaris/hp workstations Problem Description: Keyword: license, manager Urgency: HOT standalone on sun/solaris/hp workstations. Files are located on ftp site: For M1.3 (License Manager v5.0) ftp://ftp.xilinx.com/pub/swhelp/M1.3_alliance/license_hp.tar.Z ftp://ftp.xilinx.com/pub/swhelp/M1.3_alliance/license_sol.tar.Z ftp://ftp.xilinx.com/pub/swhelp/M1.3_alliance/license_sun.tar.Z For M1.4/M1.5 (License Manager v5.12) ftp://ftp.xilinx.com/pub/swhelp/M1.4_alliance/license_hp.tar.Z ftp://ftp.xilinx.com/pub/swhelp/M1.4_alliance/license_sol.tar.Z ftp://ftp.xilinx.com/pub/swhelp/M1.4_alliance/license_sun.tar.Z Solution 1: Installation/Use: Untar and Uncompress files and copy into paths as follows: Following files are license executables required to startup license manager v5.0 required to run Xi linx M1.3 tool. ( In the case of M1.4, the license manager version is v5.12) tar and compressed file: license_sol.tar.Z, license_hp.tar.Z, license_sun.tar.Z files when untarred and uncompressed: lmutil, xilinxd, lmgrd (1) Copy files into following directory:       $XILINX/bin/<platform>/ For example: $XILINX/bin/sol/lmutil /lmgrd /xilinxd (2) Where to place the license.dat file?       $XILINX/data/license.dat or       /usr/local/flexlm/licenses/license.dat(the default for flexlm)   (3) Setup LM_LICENSE_FILE variable:       - Set an environment variable in your user setup(.cshrc) file that         points to the license.dat file. For example, if the license.dat         file is installed in $XILINX/data, you would enter the         following command:         setenv m1_license=$XLILNX/data/license.dat       - Set the LM_LICENSE_FILE variable in your user setup(.cshrc) file         to point to the m1_license variable.       - Use an If statement to consider two conditions:            (a) Users who have not yet set the LM_LICENSE_FILE                variable during the install process            (b) Users who have LM_LICENSE_FILE set            Following is an example statement:            if ( ! $?LM_LICENSE_FILE ) then              setenv LM_LICENSE_FILE $m1_license            else              setenv LM_LICENSE_FILE $ (LM_LICENSE_FILE) :$m1_license            endif       - Source the .cshrc file (4) Set Server and path to point to xilinxd in license.dat file.       Example of license.dat file:       SERVER gene 80361d08 2200       DAEMON xilinxd /user/xilinx/bin/sol/xilinxd (5) How to start License Manager?       $Xilinx/bin/sol/lmgrd -c <path_to_license_file>/data/license.dat (6) Please refer to following resource for additional documentation on licensing.       -Release Document ( From your M1 package)       -Solution 2547 at http://www.xilinx.com/techdocs/2547.htm       -Solution 2499 at http://www.xilinx.com/techdocs/2499.htm       -Answer Database at http://www.xilinx.com/support/searchtd.htm (7) If some client machines run M1.3 and some run M1.4, use the license manager v5.12. End of Record #2851 - Last Modified: 11/29/99 15:58

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