Building an Installer for FlexNet Publisher License Server

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Building an Installer for FLEXlm License Server.

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This article discusses the steps required for building an installer for a FlexNet Publisher license server service.

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FlexNet Publisher provides the INSTALLS.EXE utility which not only allows for manually configuring the license service, but also enables embedding the installation procedure of the license service in the installer. Use the INSTALLS.EXE command to properly set the registry entries during your installation. Below is the supported syntax:

Usage is:

installs -c license_file_path \

-e lmgrd_location \

-l log_file_path \

-n service_name \

[-k lmgrd parameters]

To remove lmgrd as a service:

installs -r -n service_name

where:

Usage	Description
-e lmgrd_location	Location of lmgrd.exe on your system. Path names with embedded spaces need to be enclosed in double quotes.
-c license_file_path	Location of the license file. Path names with embedded spaces need to be enclosed in double quotes.
-l log_file_path	Location for the debug log file. Path names with embedded spaces need to be enclosed in double quotes. The default location for the debug log file when lmgrd is started as a service is the c:\winnt\System32 folder. To specify a different location, make sure you specify a fully qualified path.
-n service_name	The service name. If not specified, FLEXlm License Manager is used by default. Service names with embedded spaces need to be enclosed in double quotes.
-k lmgrd	parameters Used to pass additional command line arguments to lmgrd each time it is started as a service. A string of parameters with embedded spaces needs to be enclosed in double quotes. One or more of the following can be specified: ? -local?Restricts the lmdown command to be run only from the same machine where lmgrd is running. ? -x lmdown?Disables the lmdown command (no user can run lmdown). ? -x lmremove?Disables the lmremove command (no user can run lmremove).
-r	Remove service_name service.

Consider the following example:

installs -e "C:\Program Files\flexlm\i86_n3\lmgrd" \

-c C:\mylicenses\sample.lic \

-l C:\mylogfiles\sample.dl \

-n "Myvendor License Manager"

where:

C:\Program Files\flexlm\i86_n3\lmgrd? is the location of the lmgrd executable. (Double quotes are required around the name since there is an embedded space in one of the folder names.)
C:\mylicenses\sample.lic is the full path name for the license file.
C:\mylogfiles\sample.dl is the full path name for the debug log file.
"Myvendor License Manager" is the service name. (Double quotes are required since the service name is composed of multiple words.)

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