I have been using FLEXlm to manage all our EDA licenses through lmgrd. Initially, there weren't many licenses to manage so I was inclined to just fill in the SERVER and VENDOR lines with the appropriate path and port number for each license file and I just run ./lmgrd -c <license.dat> for each license and it has been working quite well.
Recently we got to a stage where quite a few license files from various vendors need to be managed, and currently we have several processes of lmgrd running different daemons. The trouble is, in some cases one license from EDA vendor A is up and running, but another license file from EDA vendor B might have a different license to EDA vendor A's tool but with different features. So when I run it with ./lmgrd, it complains about multiple daemons license server systems running.
I think there must be a better way to manage them all, but I am not sure how to do it.
Any thoughts would be very much appreciated.
Best regards, Tidus
Start lmgrd separately for each vendor.
lmgrd -c /vendor1/license.lic
lmgrd -c /vendor2/license.lic
After that, when you check ps-ef |grep lmgrd, you will find different process id created for each vendor.