Please refer to the End-User manual for a general discussion of the End-User Options file. Only exceptional or undocumented questions are answered here.
Add a path to your Options file to the DAEMON line in the license file:
Before:
DAEMON demo /usr/flexlm/demo
After: DAEMON demo /usr/flexlm/demo /usr/flexlm/options
TIMEOUT only works if the application developer specifically supports it. By default, it
doesn't work. Often, it's a difficult feature to support, since the application has to determine
when it's `idle', and this is sometimes non-trivial to determine.
No. GROUPs are defined in the Options file, and are unrelated to Unix groups.
Upgrade to v4.0 vendor daemons. They support '\' line continuation character, and a GROUP
line of up to 2K.
Upgrade to v4.0 vendor daemons, where HOST_GROUP is supported.
It's used by FLEXadmin to give an accurate report of historical usage. It's not intended for any
other use.
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Q9.1 How do I enable the Options file?
Q9.2 Why doesn't TIMEOUT work?
Q9.3 Is the Options GROUP the same as a Unix group (/etc/groups)?
Q9.4 I need to have more users in a GROUP - how can I get around the 240 character limitation?
Q9.5 I need a GROUP of hosts, not users.
Q9.6 What is REPORTLOG for?