License Server - Return a Borrowed License Early

License Managament License server Borrow return early

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This document is a help and a guide for how to setup a license server to be able to return borrowed licenses earlier than the set-out-date. Keep in mind:

- All arrangements to return the borrowed licenses early must be made before initiating license borrowing. Before borrowing a license from the server, you must set the environment variable PRO_ALLOW_EARLY_RETURN to true to return that license early. If you frequently return licenses early, then permanently set the environment variable using the System Properties dialog box.

Note: Setting the PRO_ALLOW_EARLY_RETURN environment variable has no effect on an un borrowed license.

1. License Server Return a Borrowed License Early

2. Returning a Borrowed License Early The information in this document is from the reference document Installing Creo ® 2.0: Creo Parametric, Creo Direct, Creo Layout, Creo Simulate, and Creo Options Modeler, Datecode M120 from PTC (pages 79-80). All arrangements to return the borrowed licenses early must be made before initiating license borrowing. Before borrowing a license from the server, you must set the environment variable PRO_ALLOW_EARLY_RETURN to true to return that license early. If you frequently return licenses early, then permanently set the environment variable using the System Properties dialog box. Note: Setting the PRO_ALLOW_EARLY_RETURN environment variable has no e ff ect on an unborrowed license. For an lmadmin -based license server, set adminOnly ="false” in the server.xml fi le at license_server_manager_loadpoint / conf to return a borrowed license early. See Returning a Borrowed License Early in the FlexNet Publisher License Administration Guide for a procedure on returning the borrowed licenses early.

3. Instructions for Flexnet - the lmgrd -based License Server For an early return of a borrowed license, you can use the lmborrow subfunction with the lmutil Flexnet utility. The lmutil utility resides at { Creo installation path}\ Creo 2.0\Common Files\M120\x86e_win64\ obj Before running the lmutil lmborrow utility, you can run the following command in a command shell to check the status of the borrowed license: lmutil lmborrow –status Then read the command output to determine the optional arguments for the lmutil lmborrow utility. See the next table. To use the lmutil lmborrow utility, open a command shell and type the following command at the prompt: lmutil lmborrow -return [- fqdn ][-c license_file_list ] [-d display] feature Optional arguments are enclosed within brackets in the previous command syntax. Descriptions of the arguments follow.