[Beowulf] question for licensed software users

[Joe Landman]

Toon Knapen wrote:
> What kind of problems: developing using FlexLm or deploying an app which 
> needs to talk to a flexlm-server ?

flexlm server suddenly and inexplicably switching its lmhostid.  After a 
reboot.  Renders all licenses unusable.

This happened recently at two customers sites.  One was a windows 
license server, one was a linux license server.  Restarting the boxes 
didn't help.  Restarting the daemon didn't help.  Looking at the license 
files didn't indicate an expiration.  The logs didn't indicate this 
either.  It just appeared (in the logs) that the thing stopped believing 
it was server 1 (the lmhostid is a mac address BTW), and suddenly 
started believing it was a server 2 (well, it took the other mac address 
as its lmhostid).

Very annoying.  Have seen this on multiple boxes over the past few 
years, ones we haven't touched as well as ones we try to "fix" (e.g. 
alter the setup so that the flexlm daemon will in fact run correctly).

This impacts multiple vendor products BTW.

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