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nchaminda1-Visitor
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October 2, 2015
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Centralizing Creo License

  • October 2, 2015
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Dear all,

 

We Have Creo license and Flex service run on a client Machine. Everytime when we need to use Creo, the client machine should have been switched on.

 

But our server always switched on. therefore are we able to move the license to the server machine.

this server runs GNU/Linux Centos i686 2.6.18 (Nethservice). How to move the license from client machine to server?

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Marco Tosin
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Marco Tosin21-Topaz I
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October 2, 2015

You can search in the right upper box with a string like "license server creo".

There a lot of discussions already with an answer in the community about what you are asking.

Marco
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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
October 2, 2015

Nirosh,

http://support.ptc.com/WCMS/files/121640/en/PTC_LMS_Download.pdf contains info about supported operating systems.

GNU/Linux Centos is not supported.

MH

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GabrielZaha14-Alexandrite
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October 2, 2015

The PTC License Server documentation (https://support.ptc.com/view?im_dbkey=121640) provides the link for the Linux distribution of the license server as well the link to the Manual installation instructions.

The license server is developed for Red Hat, therefore should be compatible with CentOS.

You will also need to update your license file for the new server. To get the PTC_HOSTID you can use the "ifconfig" command. The HOSTID is the MAC address of the network card.

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nchaminda1-VisitorAuthor
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October 19, 2015

Hi all,

Again I am about into the topic. can the licence server be installed on clearos. Because on centos we cannot install. it says no permissions when I run the setup file.

thanks.

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GabrielZaha14-Alexandrite
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October 20, 2015

Are you sure you got the correct files? I'm asking this because there is no setup file for the Linux license server. When you download the files from PTC website you get a zip archive containing the license server daemons (lmgrd and ptc_d) and the license management utility (lmutil).

You need to copy the license file in the same directory where you unpacked the archive and manually start the server. In my previous post I give you the link to the documentation. All steps are described on that document. Also keep in mind that the license server process need to be started as root.

The procedure should be the same for both CentOS and ClearOS.

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nchaminda1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
October 26, 2015

Any one help me to continue?

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nchaminda1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
October 26, 2015

I logged on with root

navigated to the location where setup file is located.

run the setup using ./setup

but following command appears. What am i missing?

ERROR:  The DISPLAY variable is not set -

   Options:

      o Press <cr> to set DISPLAY to mech:0.0

      o Type a value to use for the DISPLAY variable

      o Enter 'q' to abort prosetup

      o Specify '-display <host>:0' on the command line

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GabrielZaha14-Alexandrite
14-Alexandrite
October 26, 2015

This message is showing when you login remotely or when you use "su" command to login as root.

If you are remotely login from a Windows box (via telnet or SSH) you can't start the graphical interface. If you are login from a different linux box or if you used the su command then the first option (pressing the enter key) should work.

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nchaminda1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
October 26, 2015

can i run on the same linux box using su command?

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nchaminda1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
October 26, 2015

I think all the information should be given to you. Can you support me what is saying? I think except the display problem, there is another problem with image of cd?

./setup: line 108: cd: /home/e-smith/files/users/n.chaminda/home/SOFT_STOCK/creolic/Ptc: No such file or directory

./setup: line 121: /home/e-smith/files/users/n.chaminda/home/SOFT_STOCK/creolic/Ptc: No such file or directory

ERROR:  The DISPLAY variable is not set -

   Options:

      o Press <cr> to set DISPLAY to mech:0.0

      o Type a value to use for the DISPLAY variable

      o Enter 'q' to abort prosetup

      o Specify '-display <host>:0' on the command line

Set it to (mech:0.0): [q to abort]

   DISPLAY has been set to: mech:0.0

Starting PTC.Setup, please wait ...

ERROR:  /home/e-smith/files/users/n.chaminda/home/SOFT_STOCK/creolic/Ptc Creo/ptc_lic_server_flex-10-8-5_UNIX/cdimage_k0351flexonlyUNIXOct09/dsrc//obj/ptcsetup - file is missing.

        Check the name of the CD mount directory.

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GabrielZaha14-Alexandrite
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October 26, 2015

rename /home/e-smith/files/users/n.chaminda/home/SOFT_STOCK/creolic/Ptc Creo as /home/e-smith/files/users/n.chaminda/home/SOFT_STOCK/creolic/Ptc_Creo

The error messages on line 108 and line 121 are because of the space from the Ptc Creo directory name.

Unfortunately I can only assume now but my guess is that once you fix that the file is missing will also go away

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nchaminda1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
October 26, 2015

I changed to Ptc_Creo

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ERROR:  The DISPLAY variable is not set -

   Options:

      o Press <cr> to set DISPLAY to mech:0.0

      o Type a value to use for the DISPLAY variable

      o Enter 'q' to abort prosetup

      o Specify '-display <host>:0' on the command line

Set it to (mech:0.0): [q to abort]

   DISPLAY has been set to: mech:0.0

Starting PTC.Setup, please wait ...

/home/e-smith/files/users/n.chaminda/home/SOFT_STOCK/creolic/Ptc_Creo/ptc_lic_server_flex-10-8-5_UNIX/cdimage_k0351flexonlyUNIXOct09/dsrc/i486_linux/obj/ptcsetup: error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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GabrielZaha14-Alexandrite
14-Alexandrite
October 27, 2015

libXm.so.3 is a library that is included in OpenMotif. This is a desktop environment (same as Gnome or KDE) and it was required at the time when Pro/E was available for Linux (Wildfire 1 to 3)

At this point you have two options:

Install OpenMotif - considering that your installation package was released 7 or 8 years ago I wont be surprised if you run in some version conflicts

or

go with the manual installation. You will find step by step instruction here: http://support.ptc.com/appserver/wcms/standards/freefull_cskdb.jsp?&im_dbkey=123883&im_language=en

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nchaminda1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
November 3, 2015

Can you upload this document to follow the steps to install my creo licence server. It would be greatfull to isolate the problem we have to solve.

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nchaminda1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
October 27, 2015

any help from you?

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nchaminda1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
October 27, 2015

I have no rights to access this link. I was recently added to admin group because our company email address no longer exists. Can you tell me do i have to download openmotif

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nchaminda1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
October 29, 2015

I tried to install openmotif. but stall have problems

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