For some preinstalled software products we offer a limited number of licenses only.
In case you do not want to queue for a certain license you can bring your own.
This requires the following steps:
- Your license server is accessible from Determine if you need to access your license server from our login nodes, our compute nodes, or both.
- Check, that the relevant license server ports are accessible from 130.73.234.140 (blogin).
Eventually (compute nodes) and/or 130.73.234.[1-20] (login nodes), respectively.
Usually, you need to ask you your local admin to open your license server to allow external access from these IPs and ports.
Please configure the ports of your license server statically (see remark *). - Send a mail to support@nhr.zib.de including the name (FQDN), IP and ports of your license server.
Please configure the ports of your license server statically (see remark).
In case your license server is inside a subnet, we also need to know the name/IP of its access point. - We will setup Wait for our reply, that the corresponding IP forwarding rules , such that your job script can call your license server from our compute and post-processing nodes.
Remark
- are activated in our firewall. You can test it (from our compute/login nodes) via:
telnet your-license-server port
*) FLEXlm license servers usually use two TCP ports ("SERVER" and "VENDOR"), and both of them need to be configured in the HLRN license gateway. By default, the VENDOR port is dynamic (i.e. chosen randomly) and may change on restart of the license server. To remain accessible from the HLRN, both SERVER and VENDOR ports need to be statically configured (VENDOR xyz port=1234) in the license server. See also http://www.hlynes.com/2010/01/21/flexlm-license-servers-and-firewalls/
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