Floating License Version
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1. gt var tmp imagica log to usr imagica bin Imgrd c var flexlm imagica license dat gt var tmp imagica log 4 Installing a Floating sparkPrimatte License Key on a Linux or SGI client system NOTE This is required to do on the Linux or SGI Client systems Once you have the license file in a remote license server and the license server is set up and running do this 1 Create a license file on the client machine i e the machine that is running Flame Smoke etc named var flexlm imagica license dat Open permissions on it chmod 777 imagica license dat 2 The contents of the file should be the SERVER line from the license and then just add a USE_SERVER line after it SERVER server_machine hostid USE SERVER For example SERVER bigboy 12738ab9 USE_SERVER 3 Your floating license is now installed Restart the Autodesk application and you should have access to the floating license version of sparkPrimatte See the sparkPrimatte manual for instructions on how to use the spark 5 If you have troubles 5 1 The FlexNet Tools usr imagica etc imagica_flexIm start Install post processor usr imagica etc imagica_flexlm stop Uninstall preprocessor usr imagica bin imagica daemon Script to execute the daemon usr imagica bin Imgrd Daemon launcher usr imagica bin Imdown Daemon terminator usr imagica bin Im Miscellaneous utility commands usr imagica bin imagicad The vendor daemon var flexlm imagica l2. data contact the software distributor e Tried to execute too many applications at a time Checkout failed Licensed number of users already reached Feature app License path serv FLEXI m error 4 132 Because You tried to execute more than licensed number of applications To recover Order additional licenses f Incorrect version Checkout failed License server does not support this version of this feature Feature app License path serv FLEXI m error 25 147 Because You tried to execute an application version that is not supported To recover Order a proper license g License expired Checkout failed Feature has expired Feature app License path serv FLEXIm error 10 147 Because You tried to execute an application with expired license Or the system clock is not correct To recover Order a proper license Or adjust the system clock
3. Gross by e mail sgross imagica la com or FAX 1 530 677 9981 and he will send you a temporary license key for your system You can also log onto the Primatte web site http primatte com and request a license in that manner 3 Installing the sparkPrimatte License and Starting License Server Daemon Linux NOTE Prior to installing the license you must install the License Server on a Linux system somewhere on the network See step 2 above NOTE This is only necessary to do on the Linux host server Client system set up is further down in the document 1 The sparkPrimatte floating license key file is provided to you from Imagica and may have been FAXed to you or e mailed It will look something like this License Generated on Fri Oct 20 2006 Copy this entire license key including the lines with s into the license file SERVER boxx ANY VENDOR imagicad FEATURE sparkprimatte imagicad 4 0 permanent 1 SIGN 004D F5A7 46DD C9E4 5188 3E28 E871 6000 D928 03F6 A1E5 A49C 378D B7D7 3232 2 Save the license in a file named license dat in the var flexlm imagica directory and open permissions on it chmod 777 license dat NOTE If you have already had a license file in that directory append the top three text lines the ones that begin with SERVER VENDOR and FEATURE of the new license file to the existing file If the existing license file already includes the same SERVER and or VENDOR lines you may omit those two lines an
4. Requesting Installing and Licensing sparkPrimatte on SGI and Linux Systems Floating License Version March 8 2008 1 Installation of sparkPrimatte SGI Installation After you have downloaded the spark from the Imagica web site NOTE If you have downloaded the spark it will have to be expanded from a compressed state 1 Change the current directory to the download directory cd your download directory 2 Expand the Primatte spark application gzcat primatte tgz tar xf 3 Install the Primatte spark INST_PRIMATTE 4 You will be offered the choice of installing either the 32 or 64 bit version Please choose the correct one for your system 5 You will be offered the choice of installing NodeLocked or Floating license versions Please choose the correct one based on the license you have requested or will request NOTE Demo licenses are almost always NodeLocked licenses NOTE This operation will also load some sample images and support files NOTE Primatte should end up as sparkPrimatte spark in the usr discreet sparks PRIMATTE directory 6 Proceed to Chapter 2 Getting and Installing a License Key LINUX Installation After you have downloaded sparkPrimatte from the IMAGICA web site 1 On the Linux system log in as root 2 Copy the downloaded spark into the default spark directory on the Linux system usually usr discreet sparks 3 Go to the default spark directory gt cd usr discreet spar
5. VER line in the license file failed This often happens when NIS or DNS or the hosts file is incorrect Workaround Use IP Address e g 123 456 789 123 instead of the hostname Feature app Hostname serv License path serv FLEXI m error 14 7 Because LM_LICENSE_FILE is not set to a correct host name To recover Set LM_LICENSE_FILE correctly See Section 1 4 of this manual c There is no daemon running Checkout failed Cannot connect to license server The server Imgrd has not been started yet or the wrong port host or license file is being used or the port or hostname in the license file has been changed Feature app Server name serv License path serv FLEXIm error 15 12 System Error 146 Connection refused For further information refer to the FLEXIm End User Manual available at www globetrotter com Because LM_LICENSE_FILE is not set to a correct license server Or the daemon is not running on the license server To recover Set LM_LICENSE_FILE correctly Or launch the daemon on the license server See Section 1 4 of this manual d Tried to execute an application without a license Checkout failed License server does not support this feature Feature app License path serv FLEXI m error 18 147 Because You tried to execute an unlicensed application To recover Input correct information to the license file See Section 1 2 of this manual NOTE If you have lost the license
6. d just append the third FEATURE line NOTE To run the license server startup script you must have created a guest login account Do that now if you have not done so already NOTE After you have created the guest login account you must make a change to the etc passwd file 3 Using a text editor open the etc passwd file and look for a line that looks like this guest uid gid home guest bin bash if the guest account is named guest 4 Delete the asterisk or other character after the guest account s name leaving just the two colons so it looks like this guest uid gid home guest bin bash 5 Save the file 6 Run the install post processor script usr imagica etc imagica_flexlm start NOTE The service should be started automatically upon reboot You should see a line saying Starting License Daemon NOTE If the daemon does not start open the var tmp imagica log file and send it to sgross imagica la com NOTE A user has sent in the following suggestion regarding adding the guest account and we include it in case it is relevant to your situation Others have not had this problem In order to make the license server startup script work etc init d imagica_flexlm assumes that there is a guest user account My system had no such account so had to change the following line to get it to start bin su guest c usr imagica bin Imgrd c var flexlm imagica license dat
7. e dat You can refresh the latest license file information without terminating the daemon after changing the license dat file Imstat displays the license status usr imagica bin Imstat This will display various information about the status of the license Use the a or A option to get more detailed information NOTE You can also use Imremove Imswitchr Imver See the FLEXIm online manual usr imagica flexim htmlman TOC htm for more detailed information 5 7 Recovering from errors Here are some error messages and the recovering procedure a The system cannot find the license file Checkout failed Cannot find license file The license files or server network addresses attempted are listed below Use LM_LICENSE_FILE to use a different license file or contact your software provider for a new license file Feature app Filename usr local flexIm licenses license dat License path usr local flexlm licenses license dat FLEXIm error 1 359 System Error 2 No such file or directory For further information refer to the FLEXIm End User Manual available at www globetrotter com Because LM_LICENSE_FILE is not set or there is no license file To recover Set LM_LICENSE_FILE correctly Check that the license file exists See Section 1 4 of this manual b The system cannot find the license server Checkout failed Cannot find SERVER hostname in network database The lookup for the hostname on the SER
8. emon auto execution function type chkconfig imagica_flexlm off NOTE The daemon does not run automatically after the system reboots Using the above command you do not need to uninstall the imagica_flexlm system to deactivate When you activate the daemon again type chkconfig imagica_flexlm on NOTE It is set to on with the install program by default It is however necessary to launch the daemon again after changing the chkconfig switch ust imagica bin imagica daemon stop usr imagica bin imagica daemon start NOTE The setting will not be switched until you will execute the command explicitly 5 4 Uninstall procedure To uninstall the Imagica flexlm system open a shell window as superuser and type usr imagica etc imagica_flexlm stop NOTE This command erases the chkconfig entry and removes the related files in etc rc 02 d After executing the above command remove the imagica_flexlm package with the Software Manager swmgpr 5 5 Troubleshooting To restart the daemon ust imagica bin imagica daemon stop usr imagica bin imagica daemon start Check for an error message To verify the license usr imagica bin Imdiag c var flexlm imagica license dat NOTE This command displays the vendor name the imagica field the application name and the version number If you see a message This license cannot be checked out the license file has a problem Check that it matches the licen
9. icense dat The license file distributed separately via e mail 5 2 Starting up the license daemon Automatic method NOTE You will need to have a guest account to perform these operations After you create the guest account you will need to remove the password on it Using a text editor open the etc passwd file and look for a line that looks like this guest uid gid nome guest bin bash if the guest account is named guest Delete the asterisk after the guest account s name leaving just the two colons so it looks like this guest uid gid nome guest bin bash Save the file Run the Install post processor script usr imagica etc imagica_flexlm start The service will now be automatically started upon reboot You should see a line saying Starting License Daemon NOTE If the daemon does not start open the var tmp imagica log file and send it to sgross imagica la com Manual method NOTE The license daemon remains in main memory to manage the licensing mechanism After creating appending the license file restart the license daemon as follows ust imagica bin imagica daemon stop usr imagica bin imagica daemon start NOTE If you run the stop daemon command when the daemon is not running this command will just display a Shut down failed message There are no adverse effects to doing this 5 3 Activating deactivating the license daemon auto execution function To deactivate the license da
10. ks 4 Extract files from the Primatte for Linux tar archive gt gunzip Primatte4 0 WEB _ spark_x86 tar gz gt tar xf Primatte4 0 WEB_spark_x86 tar 5 Change to the primatte directory gt cd primatte 6 Change the file permissions of the installer pl file gt chmod 777 installer pl 7 Run installer script gt install pl NOTE You will be offered the choice of installing either the 32 or 64 bit version Please choose the correct one for your system NOTE You will be offered the choice of installing NodeLocked or Floating versions Please choose the Floating version 8 Exit root user 9 Proceed to Chapter 2 Requesting a Floating License Key 2 Requesting a Floating sparkPrimatte License Key Requesting a Floating sparkPrimatte license for SGI systems NOTE To request a license key from Imagica you have to determine the system information number in the 32 bit format and the hostname of the SGI server system To get the system information number open a shell window in IRIX and type etc sysinfo s To get the system s hostname type hostname Fill out the form at the end of this manual with these two pieces of information and FAX or e mail it to Imagica and they will send you a temporary license key for your system You can also log onto the Primatte web site http primatte com and request a license in that manner Requesting a Floating sparkPrimatte license for Linux systems NOTE O
11. n a Linux system IMAGICA needs the Imhostid and the hostname to generate a floating license key To generate this information you must install the Linux based Primatte FlexNET License Manager This utility application can be found on the Linux Downloads page on the www primatte com web site and is labeled as Floating License Manager bit Linux for Primatte V4 Choose either the 32 or 64 bit version depending on the configuration of the Linux operating system that will host the license server and download it to a known location and follow these steps a Unzip and untar the imagica_flexnet_server_x86 tar gz file gunzip imagica_flexnet_server_x86 tar gz tar xf imagica_flexnet_server_x86 tar b Then type cd imagica_flexnet_server c Make sure you are logged in as root su enter password d Change permissions on the installer script by typing chmod 777 install pl e Run the installer script by typing install pl f Go to the FLEXIm bin directory cd imagica_flexnet_server bin g Get the system s Imhostid Imhostid NOTE The Imhostid will be a twelve digit hexadecimal number h Get the system s hostname hostname NOTE The HOSTNAME will be a text string i At this time you can delete the Primatte4 0 10 WEB_spark_x86 tar and the primatte installation directory rm Primatte4 0 10 WEB_spark_x86 tar rm rf primatte j Exit root user Send this information to Scott
12. se information e mailed to you To check the log information The log for the imagica flexlm system is stored in var tmp imagica log Read the contents and check if any error messages have been recorded 5 6 Utility commands There are various utility commands in the FLEXIm system Imcksum checks typing errors in license dat usr imagica bin Imcksum c var flexlm imagica license dat NOTE You will see either an OK or BAD message Imdiag reports diagnostic message usr imagica bin Imdiag c var flexlm imagica license dat NOTE If you will see This license can be checked out the license is adequate Imdown terminates the daemon usr imagica bin imagica daemon stop Use the above command to terminate the daemon Imdown is automatically invoked from the imagica daemon script Imgrd launches the daemon usr imagica bin imagica daemon start Use the above command to launch the daemon Imgrd is automatically invoked from imagica daemon script Imhostid report the host ID ust imagica bin Imhostid This command displays the host ID For example The FLEXIm host ID of this system is 690caeca Iminstall supports creating license files You can create a license file step by step with this tool If your input is correct you will see the message Good and you can then proceed Imreread rereads from the license file usr imagica bin Imreread c var flexlm imagica licens
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