ANSYS Licenses (and STK licenses) are handled by the Ubuntu server. You can access it at [email protected].
The server is installed to /usr/local/bin/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/
There is a crontab that runs the license server on reboot, installed on spacesys’ crontab: @reboot /usr/local/bin/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/start_ansysli
Use /usr/local/bin/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/stop_ansysli to, well, stop the server. Sometimes this doesn’t work perfectly and you need to fuser -k 1055 && fuser -k 2325
The license files are installed to ./license_files. The current file (July 2023) has both Ansys and STK licenses all-in-one.
Add the new license as ansys.lic, with ownership spacesys:spacesys
Change the first line of the license file from UTAT-CAD to spacesys-PowerEdge-R300.
Restart the license server after changing licenses!
On the CAD machine, the environment variable ANSYSLMD_LICENSE_FILE is set to [email protected] so that the CAD programs should pick it up by default.
You can also pick up licenses by pointing your own machine (on the UTAT VPN) to ansys.in.utat.space, port 1055.
The license file requires a specific MAC address (the one from the old Ethernet adapter on the CAD machine), so I added a additional virtual (disconnected) ethernet port with that MAC address. Yay for lying. We need to change the first line of the license files from UTAT-CAD to spacesys-PowerEdge-R300 to make this change complete.
The log files are located in the licensing folder, there’s one for the server iteself and one for the license allocation.