2.6.1 Floating License

If you have a floating license, you will need to follow the instructions below to make it work. If you do not have a floating license, you may skip this section.

Make a new directory to keep track of the running ADF processes. This directory must be located on a file system that is shared between all nodes on which you want to run ADF with this floating license.

Thus, if $ADFHOME is shared and you want (for example) to use the name FloatADF to count the processes:

mkdir $ADFHOME/FloatADF
chmod 1777 $ADFHOME/FloatADF

In this example, we have given all users read, write and execute permissions to this directory. If you wish to restrict this for security reasons, you may do so as long as all ADF users will have read, write and search permission for this directory.

Send the result of the following commands (using again the name FloatADF as an example) to license@scm.com:

ls -lid $ADFHOME/FloatADF

Also, execute the command below on each machine (or cluster node) where you want to run ADF (the ADF package must be installed before running this command) and include the output in your e-mail.

$ADFBIN/dirac info

Important:

• You need to mail the exact output of the above command, thus with a full path to the FloatADF direcetory.
• You should not delete, move or rename this directory once you have sent this information to SCM.
  Doing so will break your floating license.

SCM will send you a license file by e-mail. Its installation is identical to that for non-floating licenses. Copy it to your system (most conveniently also in a shared directory) and make sure all users have read permission to it:

cp license.txt $ADFHOME/license.txt
chmod ugo+r $ADFHOME/license.txt

Next make sure ADF will use this license file by setting the SCMLICENSE environment variable (Bourne shell syntax is shown):

SCMLICENSE=$ADFHOME/license.txt
export SCMLICENSE