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Licensing across a firewall

You must provide port numbers for each license server.

About this task

If you want to serve licenses across a firewall, both license servers—the Reprise License Manager (RLM) and the sdlxysoft server (ISV)—need known port numbers for your firewall to pass requests on these ports.

The RLM server is always set at two known port numbers (5053 and 5054), the first of which you specify in the license file on the SERVER or HOST line. The RLM server also starts up the SDL sdlxysoft server with a dynamic port number, which is not known before startup time.

Procedure

  1. Access the RLM license directory, which is /opt/XyEnterprise/SDL_License on a Linux machine, or [drive]:\Program Files (x86)\XyEnterprise\SDL_License on a Windows machine.
  2. Open the file with the extension .lic for editing.
  3. Find the line that starts with “ISV” and change it to: ISV sdlxysoft port=number, where number is the port number you want to use.
  4. Save and close the file.
  5. Change the firewall settings to turn on ports 5053, 5054 and the port number you configured.
  6. Open the new port. Instruct your firewall to allow connections to both the port number on the SERVER or HOST line (for the RLM server) and to the port number on any ISV line (for the SDL sdlxysoft server).
  7. Restart the license server:
    PlatformCommand
    LinuxRestart the license manager by entering .\rlm.sh restart on the command line.
    WindowsRestart the license manager by accessing the Services in your Windows Control Panel, finding the service named SDL_License, and then restarting that service.