3 The License Server Administration Tool

3.1 Overview

hqn_lsa is a utility available to the superuser for interrogating and configuring the hqn_lsd license server daemon. It lets you configure the license server to your site, and allows finer control over the way licenses on your network or machine are managed.

Note: Remember that hqn_lsa comes in platform-specific versions and you must append the correct prefix for your platform to the name hqn_lsa in order to invoke the program. The three programs are hqn_lsa-irix5, hqn_lsa-sparc-solaris and hqn_lsa-sparc-sunos4. The same suffix rule applies to hqn_lsd.

The hqn_lsa program accepts commands either from the command line, from an interactive shell mode, from the standard input, or from a file. The commands available are the same as the command line options, but the leading hyphen is omitted. Call it from a UNIX shell as follows:

unix> hqn_lsa-<platform> [-option][ - | filename] 

If you pass no options, hqn_lsa enters a simple interactive mode, with a prompt indicating the currently connected server or servers. By default, hqn_lsa attempts to connect to the lowest numbered active hqnserver (see Chapter 2) on start-up, or if no servers are available, to the local host. The -w option can be used to set the maximum amount of time hqn_lsa will take to attempt to make a connection.

With the hyphen ("-") or filename, commands are read from stdin or a file. The -y option can be used to suppress confirmations required by certain commands.


MLWorks Guide to the License Server - 17 JAN 1997

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