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ptc-51261831-Visitor
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July 25, 2013
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Licensing

  • July 25, 2013
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Having just installed Arbortext Aerospace and Defence 4.4 on a Windows 7 32bit machine, the Arbortext application asks for a license server.

Is there an environment variable that we may set (via GPO in AD) to direct the workstations to the flexlm server?

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JeffStevenson1-Visitor
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July 25, 2013

Hi Jim,

I'm not as familiar with Aerospace, but the other Arbortext applications use a Windows environment variable called PTC_D_LICENSE_FILE to find the location of the license server (for floating licenses) or the license file (for locked licenses).

It sounds like you use Flex server so the value would be something like "7788@<server-name>" with <server-name> being the name of the computer hosting Flex.

-Jeff

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ptc-51261831-VisitorAuthor
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July 25, 2013

Cheers Jeff. Tried that but it made no difference. The apps says "Cannot connect to server: Code -15" which I suspect is a firewall issue. I'm trying to install it on to a box on the actual site where its going to be used, rather than across the WAN. Fingers crossed.

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JeffStevenson1-Visitor
1-Visitor
July 25, 2013

Yes, that would cause difficulties depending on your network setup. Are you able to ping the Flex machine by name? IP address? You could also put an IP address in the PTC_D variable (ex. 7788@192.168.1.101).

LAN or WAN doesn't matter to Flex as long as you have a means of accessing the Flex machine via name or IP. If all else fails, you can also install Flex server locally and point PTC_D to 7788@localhost. However, I would not recommend for deskop machines that are routinely shutdown and fall asleep.

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dalad1-Visitor
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July 25, 2013

Hi Jim,

Hope you are well, good to hear your upgrading to 4.4

Ok, so on the Win7 boxes the licence info is actually stored in the registry, under -
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Wow6432Node > FLEXlm License Manager"

[It could vary depending on how you have your clients set up].

The Flex LM licence for the client connecting to the licence server can be set if you navigate to

Start > Programs > PTC > Arbortext AAD > Set FlexLM Server
[You may need to run as Admin in order to commit to the registry - right mouse > Run as Admin]

With regards to the licence server, if you can drop me an email at -, i can send you a reference document that may assist you.

Hope the above helps


- Dharmesh

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