Renewing Genesys licenses

[victor]

Has anyone figured a way to renew Genesys license on a running system WITHOUT rebooting?
I have tried lmreread but so far the results were very mixed because sometimes TServer or URS would still hold on to the old licenses (and of course in the log it would not tell you one way or another.)

Is there a sure way to renew licenses without rebooting? Right now, I lose about two hours to half a night rebooting one system or another whenever we need to upgrade the license or switch over from temporary.

Any ideas?

[Haldane]

Victor,
    I used LMREREAD quite alot in our test env as the license is constantly changing. I found it works well but sometimes you need to issue the command more than once as the sometimes not all the demons are issued the command. I know this was a bit flakey in 6.5 but in 7 it works fine.

[rlaing]

Typically updating licenses using lmreread will update the new license count (when you verify using lmstat and output / redirect to a file). Then if you update the license count on a TServer, it will dynamically check out the extra license when a register request needs a license.

Unfortunately, URS / router seats aren't as dynamic. When router starts, it checks out all available licenses (router-seats) and deals with licenses for unique targets within that limit. Can be frustrating if your count / targets is slightly above your available router seats as it doesn't always "free up" a license in a dynamic / free seating environment unless you restart router. Haven't seen any changes for 7.2/7.5 although overall license model appears to moving to a more managable structure of "seats" rather than having to track / identify the various object types, etc.

Richard

[jlennan]

I've simply replaced the license.dat and restarted the license service on my windows box.  Not sure what the process is for linux/unix boxes.

I've found on the windows boxes, using the lmtools.exe to re-read the file, doesn't always work, or doesn't push it out to t-server or other applications unless the service is restarted.

[Fra]

My experience is similar to Haldane's and jlennan's; I never rebooted but:

* in 6.1 FlexLm on a Windows box often more than one Stop&Start of the License Server is needed
* in 8.3 FlexLm on a Windows box one Reread is enough
* on Unix boxes lmreread usually works.