Lumerical license manager installation guide

Ansys license manager support

Lumerical 2020R2 and newer supports licensing via the Ansys License Manager. For Ansys license manager installation instructions, please login to the Ansys customer portal and see installation and licensing help and tutorials.

Installation instructions on this page is for Lumerical FlexNet License Manager (FlexLM) on supported systems.

Notes:

Administrator or root access is required.
Floating licenses must have the Lumerical FlexNet license manager installed on one (1) of the computer in the local network.
Node locked licenses (Windows and macOS) do not require the license manager.

Download the installation package. (registration required)
Change directory to the download location. Right click on the zip file and Extract All...
Open the extracted folder and run the installer, 'LFLM.msi'.
- For Floating trusted storage, USB Key and MAC locked licenses: Check all options.
- For Triad redundant license: UnCheck all options

Download the installation package. (registration required)
Change directory to the download location and unpack the installation files.
```
$ tar -zxf Lumerical_FlexLM-<version>.gz
```
Change directory to the extracted folder and run the install script with root access.
```
$ sudo ./install.sh
```
Choose option 1, the default option
Additional step for Triad Redundant license below.

Download the installation package. (registration required)
Change directory to the download location.
Run the disk image file (Lumerical_FlexLM-<version>.dmg) to mount the installer.
Run the installation package (Lumerical_FlexLM-<version>.pkg) and follow the instructions and complete the installation.
Additional step for Triad Redundant license below.

After installing FlexLM, remove the license file, 'start.lic'. (default install path shown below)

$ sudo rm /opt/lumerical/lumerical-flexlm/licenses/LUMERICL/start.lic