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1. for no log file fusr bin local GridgenV15 licenses pointwise ncr log Starting the Native CAD Reader license server using the command fusr bin local GridgenV15 linux flexlm CADstarterv usr bin local GridgenV1iS licenses pointwise ner dat 1542 logfile usr bin local Gridgenv15 licenses pointwise ner lsg Once you hit enter a message will be printed to the screen indicating the command used to start the server To verify that the NCR license server is running you can query the license server by selecting option i from the Gridgen License Control menu This should produce a message indicating how many accesses are available their expiration date and whether the NCR license server is RUNNING l accesses avallable Bundle Id 25bd63fd TTFFundations l access 0 requested Acces validis until Dec 31 2004 for POINTWI Native CAD Reader license server is RUNNING 1 5 Installation Instructions Unix amp Linux Download Now that you have checked the NCR license server s status you may quit the LICENSE CONTROL SH script and start using Gridgen To exit the LICENSE CONTROL SH script you will need to enter option x from the Gridgen License Control menu 1 3 Concurrent V14 and V15 Processes If you are interested in continuing to use V14 after upgrading to V15 please be aware that V14 can be run with a V15 license However V15 will not run under a V14 license 1 4 Downloading A Maintenance Release P
2. is a gzipped compressed tar archive containing updated HTML files for the on line help and various other updated files You may download this file using the same techniques used to download a Gridgen maintenance release Once the help update has been downloaded you may install it using the following procedure l cp help update n tar gz gridgen home path 2 gunzip help update n tar gz gt tar xvf help update n tar 1 7 Running Gridgen All users should be sure that when they execute Gridgen they are actually running the Launch Script grid gen in the gridgen_home_path directory If you were to examine the script s contents you will notice that it accomplishes a variety of tasks including e setting environment variables for the on line help and the tutorials choosing the appropriate Gridgen hardware version and e modifying some keyboard mappings Note For installations on SGI Prism workstations users will need to run the gridgen script by using the following command to ensure that the appropriate shell is invoked irix usr bin sh gridgen 1 7 Installation Instructions Unix amp Linux Download 1 8
3. the archive gridgen hw tar gz in the gridgen_home_path directory cd gridgen home path gunzip gridgen hw tar gz tar xvf gridgen hw tar 3 Change to the gridgen home path hw bin directory cd gridgen home path hw bin 4 The new executable gridgen should now be present in this directory For each maintenance release this executable will be updated Occasionally other files that need to be updated for a maintenance release may also be extracted in addition to the gridgen executable 5 Only for upgrades from Gridgen V15 10 to V15 11 or newer versions Due to an updated license man ager in V15 11 and newer versions the old license server for Gridgen V15 10 will need to be stopped Section 3 10 A new license file will also need to be requested from Pointwise online at http www pointwise com licenses Using the Gridgen V15 11 or newer version of the LICENSE CONTROL SH script import the new license file and start the license server according to the instructions outlined in Section 1 2 Now you may run Gridgen as before 1 6 On Line Help Updates Periodically Gridgen s on line help and other miscellaneous files are updated Help updates are announced 1 6 Running Gridgen Starting the NCR Server at the Pointwise web site and via the Gridgen e mail list On our website http www pointwise com support maintrel shtml you will find a file called help update n tar gz where n is replaced by the maintenance release number This
4. will bring up the Gridgen License Control menu containing your machine s current settings as well as options for importing the license file starting and stopping the server and checking the server status These options are available for both the Gridgen and NCR servers The NCR server is only necessary if you have licensed an NCR module in addition to Gridgen Current settings Hostname urchin Gridgen license host ID O00476eadcal Gridgen installed license file missing Native CAD Reader license host ID OOO476RADCAL Native CAD Reader license port 1542 Native CAD Reader installed license file missing Options General a Change settings fonly settings marked with may be changed bi Get license keys Gridgen License Manager Z2 Start e Check status di Stop f Import License Native CAD Reader License Manager g Start 1 Check status h Stop J Import License H Exit Please enter a letter from at to jJ or x to exit To obtain the information needed for your license file we recommend using either the Current settings dis play or option b to get the following e Hostname e Gridgen license host ID e Native CAD Reader license host ID if you have licensed an NCR module This information should be emailed to icenses pointwise com or your local Gridgen distributor to receive 1 3 Installation Instructions Unix amp Linux Download your license In reply you will receive an email with th
5. 6 must be reported in addition to the Gridgen host ID and hostname to receive the appropriate license file s 1 2 First Time Installation 1 2 1 Downloading Gridgen from the Web You will need to go to the URL provided to you by Pointwise to download your tarred and gzipped Gridgen file If you were not provided with a URL from which to download Gridgen please contact support point wise com and someone will assist you On the website you will see download files for each of the platforms supported for Gridgen You will need to select the file appropriate for your platform Once you have selected your file a prompt will appear asking you to either open the file or save it to your computer Save the file to the directory in which you would like to install Gridgen 1 2 2 Extracting Gridgen Once your download is complete you will need to extract Gridgen and its license managers from the down loaded file Please ensure that your downloaded file is in the directory where you wish to install Gridgen before extracting any files To extract the files enter the following at the command prompt gunzip gq hw tar gz tar xvi gg hw tar where hw refers to the platform type on which you are installing Gridgen such as sgi65 Linux sun etc This will start the extraction process to your current working directory The names of the files being extracted will be printed to the screen Once the extraction is complete you should have the new fold
6. Planning Your Installation 1 Installation Instructions Unix amp Linux Download First time installation of Gridgen is fairly simple It mainly involves downloading a complete version of Gridgen from the Pointwise website then extracting and running files from the downloaded archive This type of installation is generally performed by users who are evaluating Gridgen A typical Gridgen installation will result in the following layout of data approximately 150 MBytes in the gridgen home path folder doc This directory contains the Gridgen User Manual Glyph Reference Manual Tutorial Workbook and Gridgen Release Notes and Installation Instructions in PDF and HTML formats in the PDF and Help subdirectories respectively PDF files may be viewed and printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader HTML files may be viewed by pressing Help within Gridgen examples This directory contains Gridgen gg database and Glyph script glf files for tutorials and other examples of Gridgen usage hw There is not a directory actually named hw It is included here in a generic sense to represent the specific hardware brand s of computer on which you will install Gridgen and its license managers Instead of hw you may see directories called sgi65 sun hp and linux Hardware brand specific files for the license managers library files and executables will be contained here within subdirectories licenses This directory is where we strongly rec
7. ain menu This should produce a message indicating that both First Time Installation Starting the NCR Server the license server and the vendor daemon PWID are UP and that the Gridgen license server is RUNNING Imutil Copyright c 1989 2006 Macrovision Europe Ltd and or Macrovision Corporation All Rights Reserved Flexible License Manager status on Mon 12 10 2007 16 31 License server status 27000 xen1ia License file s on xenia usr bin local GridgenV15 licenses pointwise flexnet lic Kenia license server UP MASTER ywil 4 Vendor daemon status fon xenia PHID UE vill 4 Gridgen license server is RUNNING Now that you have checked the Gridgen license server s status you may either go on to start the NCR license server if you have licensed an NCR module or you may quit the LICENSE CONTROL SH script and start using Gridgen To exit the LICENSE CONTROL SH script you will need to enter option x from the Gridgen License Control menu 1 2 5 Starting the NCR Server To start the NCR license server select option g from the LICENSE CONTROL SH script which can be run by the method described at the beginning of Section 1 2 3 You will be asked to specify the full path and filename of your NCR license server log file after which the license server will be started We recommend saving the log file as pointwise ncr 1log in the gridgen_home_path licenses directory Enter the path and name of the log file leave blank
8. e license file pointwise flexnet lic attached If you have licensed an NCR module you will also receive the license file pointwise ncr dat 1 2 3 1 Importing Licenses The LICENSE CONTROL SH script should be used to import any license files received from us To run the LICENSE CONTROL SH script enter the following at the command prompt cd gridgen home path sh LICENSE CONTROL SH If installed on an SGI Prism workstation the following alternative commands should be used to run the script cd gridgen home path irix usr bin sh LICENSE CONTROL SH This will bring up the Gridgen License Control menu as seen in Section 1 2 3 Options and 3 should be used for the import of Gridgen and NCR license files respectively Please note that importing license files under one or both of these options will place the license files in the default recommended loca tion of gridgen home path 1icenses under the names of pointwise flexnet lic and pointwise ncr dat respectively Note We recommend throughout the installation process that the default locations and port number be used when setting up your Gridgen and NCR license servers If you need to change these settings you can do so by selecting option a from the Options General menu If the default port number of 1542 is changed using the Install Script you will have to edit your license file to reflect this change before starting the license server In your license file the
9. er GridgenV15 present in your installation directory Please remember that this folder and its complete path correspond to gridgen home path It should contain all of Gridgen s files in their proper installed locations No further extraction is necessary 1 2 3 Obtaining the Hostname and Host IDs Evaluation sites will have already completed this step and received their license file s before downloading the tarred and gzipped Gridgen archive If you are an evaluation site please proceed to Section 1 2 3 1 on 1 2 First Time Installation Obtaining the Hostname and Host IDs importing license files Existing customers who already have a valid V15 license and running server can proceed to Section 1 7 on running GG or to Section 1 2 4 for information on starting and verifying the server status Otherwise the next step of the installation procedure is to generate licensing information using your LICENSE CONTROL SH script You may run the LICENSE CONTROL SH script at any time to do a variety of tasks such as generate host information for a new license file start or stop a server check the server status or import a new license file To run the LICENSE CONTROL SH script enter the following at the command prompt cd gridgen home path sh LICENSE CONTROL SH If installed on an SGI Prism workstation the following alternative commands should be used to run the script cd gridgen home path irix usr bin sh LICENSE CONTROL SH This
10. eriodically new minor Gridgen versions are released These minor releases are called maintenance releases Usually a maintenance release consists solely of defect corrections to the software You can deter mine your current Gridgen version by looking in the Version window in the upper left corner of the Gridgen screen Maintenance releases are announced at the Pointwise web site and via the Gridgen e mail list You can obtain a maintenance release by downloading a new Gridgen executable file from the Maintenance Release Download site in the Pointwise Support area of our website http www pointwise com support dload shtml Note Users upgrading from Gridgen V15 10 to V15 11 or newer versions will need a new Gridgen license file New license files can be requested online at http www pointwise com licenses 1 5 Maintenance Release Installation Once you have downloaded a Gridgen maintenance release executable you may install it by following these steps Note that in the following steps the string hw should be replaced with the appropriate string for your hardware type e g sgi65 for SGI workstations running IRIX 6 5 Furthermore the examples below refer to the directory Gridgen was originally installed in as gridgen_home_path 1 Copy to tape disk or to a compressed tar file all files contained within gridgen home path This needs to be done in case a problem is encountered while installing the maintenance release 2 Uncompress and untar
11. following string will need to be modified where 1542 is the port number and hostname is the hostname reported in the Current settings area user _ info CADserver hostname 1542 1 2 4 Starting the Gridgen Server Once the Gridgen license file pointwise flexnet 1ic has been installed the license server will need to be started Run the LICENSE CONTROL SH script by the method described at the beginning of Section 1 2 3 Select option c from within the menu choices which will prompt you to specify the full path and filename of a log file The log file serves as a helpful diagnostic tool for trouble shooting server start up issues We recommend that the log file is placed in gridgen home path licenses as pointwise flexnet log If you wish you may leave the location blank and hit enter to start the server with no log file Once you hit enter the Gridgen license server should start with a message indicating the command that was used to start it Enter the path and name of the log file leave blank for no log file fusr bin local GridgenV15 licenses pointwise flexnet log Starting Gridgen license server using the command fusr bin local GridgenV15 linux flexlm lmgrd c usr bin local GridgenV1iS licenses pointwise flexnet lic 1 fusr bin local Gridgenv15 licenses pointwise flexnet lsqg To verify that the Gridgen license server is running you can query the license server by selecting option e from the Gridgen License Control m
12. ommend that you install your license file utils This directory contains Glyph scripts that perform various utility functions gridgen This file is Gridgen s Launch Script LICENSE CONTROL SH This file is Gridgen License Control Script 1 1 Planning Your Installation Before beginning an installation you should invest some time in planning Choices to make include the fol lowing Choose the workstation on which you will perform the installation It is easiest to perform a First Time Installation on the workstation that will also run Gridgen s license server Keep in mind that the license server workstation should be networked to any workstation at your site on which you want to run Gridgen Choose the user who will install Gridgen We recommend that you do not install Gridgen as root Choose where you want Gridgen s home directory to be created The directory GridgenV15 will be cre ated in this location and all archived files will be extracted to subdirectories within it The full path of GridgenV15 will be referred to within all installation and license management instructions as gridgen home path Please record the location of gridgen home path so that it will be easy to find these files when you need to do a Maintenance Installation or install a new license file It is also very helpful if this directory can be mounted by every workstation that will run Gridgen For SGI Prism workstations we recommend that gridgen home path be
13. placed under the home directory Choose where Gridgen s FLEXIm and Native CAD Reader NCR license managers will be installed We recommend that you install both in gridgen_home_path nw 1ex1m where hw is replaced by the plat form type of your installation for example 1inux for PC workstations running Linux Choose the directory where Gridgen s license file or files 1f you have licensed an NCR provided by Pointwise will be placed It is recommended that you place all license files in gridgen home path licenses After your planning is complete the First Time Installation process is quite straightforward There are five 1 1 Installation Instructions Unix amp Linux Download steps you will need to complete 1 Download tarred and gzipped Gridgen file for your platform from the Pointwise website 2 Unzip and untar the Gridgen file 3 Generate your host ID and host name 4 Import your Gridgen license file 5 Start the FLEXIm license server If you have licensed an NCR you will also have these additional steps 6 Generate your NCR host ID 7 Import your NCR license file 8 Start the NCR license server Evaluation sites should have already completed task 3 before downloading the tarred and gzipped Gridgen file Existing customers are responsible for reporting the host ID and host name to us between tasks 3 and 4 if necessary For evaluation sites or existing customers with a licensed NCR the NCR host ID task

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