This step is necessary only if you have a floating license. If you have a node-locked license, you can skip this step.
Before CONVERGE will run, it needs to check out a license from the license manager. The license manager runs constantly on a server and listens for requests for licenses from processes on the network. The license manager keeps track of how many licenses are checked out and how many are still available.
The license manager provided with CONVERGE is the Reprise License Manager (RLM) developed by Reprise Software, Inc. For full documentation on RLM, refer to their website at www.reprisesoftware.com.
The main server executable necessary for running the license manager is rlm. A number of other executable utilities are placed in the rlm subdirectory. This can be found in the /<installation_directory>/<architecture>/rlm directory. Start the license manager (in the background) in this directory by typing
rlm &
When started, RLM will look for any files named *.lic that reside in the same directory. During the install procedure, a soft link to the license.lic file in the license directory was created, so RLM will see the license file. The license.lic file provided by Convergent Science indicates that the vendor-specific settings file named csci.set will also be used to handle the licensing. Once RLM starts and sees the valid license.lic file, it will use the csci.set to launch a second rlm daemon as well. If you run the ps command to see what processes are running, you should see two instances of rlm.
You can download the csci.set file from the Convergent Science hub (http://hub.convergecfd.com/downloads). Log in and go to the Utilities/Licensing subdirectory.
Running RML Automatically at Bootup
Refer to the RLM User Administration Manual for setting up RLM as a service for your platform.