New Licence Server details

Due to the failure of one of our severs, we have had to migrate the licensing service.

Please see below for the information required to reconfigure your particular software package. More information will follow for the other effected software packages.

Ansys

You will need to find and modify the file ansylmd.ini
(which if you installed Ansys/CFX in the default location on Windows would be in folder:
C:\Program Files\Ansys Inc\Shared Files\Licensing
on Linux/Unix systems it should be in a subdirectory of your Ansys/CFX installation similar to :
ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing )

You will need to replace the following line:

SERVER=10550@oak.iss.soton.ac.uk

by the line:

SERVER=10550@uos-licserv4.soton.ac.uk,10550@uos-licserv5.soton.ac.uk,10550@uos-licserv6.soton.ac.uk

and then save the file

If you are still having problems then check whether the environment variable ANSYSLMD_LICENSE_FILE is set.
If so then you need to reset the value of this variable to:

10550@uos-licserv4.soton.ac.uk,10550@uos-licserv5.soton.ac.uk,10550@uos-licserv6.soton.ac.uk

Matlab

For help setting up the Matlab Licence file on Mac OSX please see the useful downloads area of this page.

You will need to find and modify the Matlab license.dat file

The location of this will depend on the version of Matlab you have installed and typically it will be called either license.dat or network.lic

For versions of Matlab 2008a or later then the default location on Windows would be in a folder similar to:
C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2008a\licenses

Whereas for Matlab 2007b or earlier it would typically be in a folder similar to:

C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2007b\bin\win32

on Linux/Unix systems it should be in the "etc" subdirectory of your Matlab installation for versions 2007b or earlier and in the "licenses" subdirectory for versions 2008a or later

You will need to replace the following line in any license.dat or network.lic file in which it occurs:

SERVER oak.iss.soton.ac.uk ANY  2500

by the following 3 lines:

SERVER uos-licserv4.soton.ac.uk ANY 2500
SERVER uos-licserv5.soton.ac.uk ANY 2500
SERVER uos-licserv6.soton.ac.uk ANY 2500

and then save the file.

If you are still having problems then check whether the environment variable MLM_LICENSE_FILE is set.
If so then you need to reset the value of this variable to:

2500@uos-licserv4.soton.ac.uk,2500@uos-licserv5.soton.ac.uk,2500@uos-licserv6.soton.ac.uk

The Matlab licence server can also be specified directly from the Dos or Unix command line (or a Windows short cut) using the -c option (flag) to the matlab command, eg.

matlab -c 2500@uos-licserv4.soton.ac.uk,2500@uos-licserv5.soton.ac.uk,2500@uos-licserv6.soton.ac.uk

Comsol

You will need to find and modify the Comsol license.dat file

Typically it will be called license.dat and should be found in the "license" directory (folder) of your installation.

You will need to replace the following line in the license.dat file:

SERVER oak.iss.soton.ac.uk ANY  1718

by the following 3 lines:

SERVER uos-licserv4.soton.ac.uk ANY 1718
SERVER uos-licserv5.soton.ac.uk ANY 1718
SERVER uos-licserv6.soton.ac.uk ANY 1718

and then save the file

If you are still having problems then check whether the environment variable LMCOMSOL_LICENSE_FILE is set.
If so then you need to reset the value of this variable to:

1718@uos-licserv4.soton.ac.uk,1718@uos-licserv5.soton.ac.uk,1718@uos-licserv6.soton.ac.uk