The PTC.Setup installation utility can access your license information on a remote license server or on a local machine. Your next task is to specify the locations of the license servers or license files that you want this installation of your product software to access.
If you access your license information from a machine without a valid version of PTC License Server, an error message tells you to update the license server. Refer to the READ THIS FIRST document for the latest information about the PTC License Server.
Specifying the License Server
Depending on the location of PTC License Server, provide PTC.Setup with the location of your licensing information.
• If PTC License Server resides on the same machine on which you are installing the software, and you have used the default
communications port for the license server, you do not have to specify the license server. PTC.Setup detects the server name and populates the FLEXnet License Servers list box.
• If PTC License Server resides on a different machine, you must specify the license server. See the sections, Obtaining a License from a Server or Servers on page 6-6, and Obtaining a Locked License from an Individual License File on page 6-7.
If PTC License Server resides on a different machine, you must specify where this installation can obtain its licensing information. See the sections Obtaining a License from a Server or Servers and Obtaining a Locked License from an Individual License File.
In order to use Structural and Thermal Simulation in integrated mode with Pro/ENGINEER, you must include the Pro/ENGINEER license servers in the list of servers.
Specifying the License Client
If you are installing the software on a license client without PTC License Server installed, the FLEXnet License Servers section is initially blank. To enable this installation to obtain floating licenses from a remote server, you must define the servers that are distributing the licenses.
See Obtaining a License from a Server or Servers on page 6-6. If this installation is to read a license file for locked licenses, you must specify the full path to and the name of the license file. See Obtaining a Locked License from an Individual License File on page 6-7.
Note
Structural and Thermal Simulation cannot be installed without a license.
Obtaining a License from a Server or Servers
To obtain a license from a server or servers:
1. Click Add in the FLEXnet License Servers screen. The Specify License Server dialog box opens.
2. Click one of the server options and enter the requested information.
– Single license server—Specify a single server for the licenses.
Enter the host name and the communications port number if it is different from the default. This information identifies the server, for example, aberdeen, from which this installation obtains its license codes.
– Triad license server (fault tolerant)—Specify a Triad
configuration of three Triad partners. As long as two or more partners are running, the licenses are served. If two or more Triad partners are not functioning, the server stops serving the licenses.
Define all three license servers. Each Triad license server must have the same license file.
Note
The order of the server list (Triad Partner 1, Triad Partner 2, Triad Partner 3) must be the same on all the three license servers.
PTC recommends that the Triad license servers be at the same site.
For further information on redundant license servers, see the FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide.
Note
Do not specify the host name of the client nodes. Specify only the license server that controls usage of the licenses. You can use the Specify License Server dialog box to configure the clients to access multiple servers or license files across your network.
– Locked license file (no server running)—For locked license files, see the section, Obtaining a Locked License from an Individual License File on page 6-7.
3. Click OK to add the server and communications port information to the FLEXnet License Servers section. For example, 7788@aberdeen.
4. Click Next. The Optional Configuration Steps screen appears.
Further steps are optional and vary for Windows and UNIX systems.
Note
On Windows, you can configure the Windows shortcut preferences and path settings for Structural and Thermal Simulation.
Obtaining a Locked License from an Individual License File
To obtain a locked license from an individual license file on your local machine or on the network:
1. Click Add in the FLEXnet license servers dialog box. The Specify License Server dialog box opens.
2. Select the Locked license file (no server running) option (see previous dialog box).
3. Perform one of the following actions:
– Specify the full path to your license file on your local or NFS-mounted disk, for example, C:\Program
Files\flex2001\license.dat.
– Click the folder icon, navigate the folder hierarchy, and select the correct license file.
4. Click OK to add the license file path information to the FLEXnet License Server section of the FLEXnet license servers screen.
5. Click Next. The Optional Configuration Steps screen appears on UNIX and the Windows Preferences screen appears on Windows.
Further steps are optional and vary for Windows and UNIX systems.
Configuring a Windows Installation
The following input is optional when you configure your installation on Windows systems. You can:
• Specify additional license configuration.
• Create Windows shortcuts to start Structural and Thermal Simulation.
• Specify the full path to your Help installation directory (specifying the load point and installing the Help files are necessary steps to enable the users of clients to view Help). See the next section for details.
• Specify the executable file for the Web browser to display Help if Internet Explorer does not start.
Specifying the Location of Your Help Files
Note
Identifying the location of your Help files is not necessary if you installed the Mechanica Help files within the product installation directory.
To install the Mechanica Help files in independent mode in a location other than the Mechanica installation directory, choose PTC Help under Other Products in the PTC.Setup product selection screen.
Note
This procedure identifies the location of the HTML files. It does not install the Help files. For the Help and the online reference documentation to be visible from a Web browser, the Help search paths to the Help installation directory must be supplied here. See Chapter 8, Installing PTC Help for details.
1. Click Help files search path on the Optional Configuration Steps screen. In the Help Files Search Path dialog box, specify the directory that contains or will contain your product’s Help files. You can specify a common master Help directory, such as C:\Program Files\ptchelpWildfire3.0.
2. Add the Help installation directory by clicking Add.
3. Type the URL to the Help installation directory on your Web server, for example, http://<servername>/<path>/
ptchelpWildfire3.0. Or, browse to or enter the full path to the load point of a local machine that contains or will contain the product Help files (for example, C:\Program Files\
ptchelpWildfire3.0).
4. Click OK and Install. You can Edit or Delete this location.
Note
Context-sensitive Help for Mechanica products is available on the product CD-ROM.
Configuring a UNIX Installation
The following input is optional when you configure your installation on UNIX systems. You can:
• Create a symbolic link to the commands that start your software.
• Specify the full path to the PTC Application Manager.
• Specify the full path to your Help installation directory (specifying the load point and installing the Help files are necessary steps to enable clients to view Help). See Specifying the Location of Your Help Files on page 6-7.
• Specify any additional license configuration.
• Specify the location of your Web browser executable file that you
For step-by-step instructions, see Configuring a UNIX Installation on page 4-14.