lmdown -c license_file_list [-vendor vendor] [-q] [-all]
- -c license_file_list
Use the specified license files. Specifying -c license_file_list is always recommended with lmdown.
- -vendor vendor
Shut down only this vendor daemon. lmgrd continues running.
- -q
Do not prompt or print a header. Otherwise, lmdown asks Are you sure? [y/n]:.
- -all
If multiple servers are specified, automatically shut down all of them. -q is implied with -all.
You can protect the unauthorized execution of lmdown when you start up the license manager daemon lmgrd. Shutting down the servers causes users to lose their licenses. See the -local, -2 -p, and -x options in FLEXnet license server manager lmgrd, for details about securing access to lmdown.
If lmdown encounters more than one server (for example, if -c specifies a directory with many *.lic files), a choice of license servers to shut down is presented.
Note:
On Linux platforms, do not use kill -9 to shut down the license servers. On Windows platforms, if you must use the Task Manager to kill the FLEXnet Licensing service, be sure to end the lmgrd process first, then all the vendor daemon processes.
To stop and restart a single vendor daemon, use lmdown -vendor vendor, then use lmreread -vendor vendor to restart the vendor daemon (see lmreread).
When shutting down a three-server redundant license server, there is a one-minute delay before the servers shut down. lmdown shuts down all three license servers of a set of redundant license servers. If you need to shut down one of a set of redundant license servers (not recommended because if either of the remaining machines becomes unavailable, the license server will stop serving licenses), you must kill both the lmgrd and vendor daemon processes on that license server machine.