Emergency Licenses

Emergency Licenses

The web-based, Advantest Special Licenses feature, accessed from the Advantest homepage, is your access point for requesting emergency licenses. You can obtain, with the minimum of delay, emergency application software licenses or hardware feature licenses, to solve a manufacturing problem caused by a failed or otherwise inoperable or in accessible license server.

To access the Advantest Special Licenses feature, you must login with your Advantest customer login.

Note: Emergency licenses are available for emergency circumstances only and are valid for 10 days only, providing you with time to rehost your full licenses.

When to request emergency licenses

Emergency licenses are required and will be provided in the following cases:

What you should do before requesting emergency licenses

When applying for emergency licenses, you should be aware of the following:

  • Notify your Advantest sales representative as soon as possible by voice or email before you apply for a license.
  • Take all reasonable steps to restore operation to your original license server or rehost your licenses.

What you should know when requesting emergency licenses

To receive an emergency license, you must provide the following information:

  • Valid user account to login to the Advantest Special Licenses feature. Alternatively, you can login with a valid entitlement ID.
  • Host ID and hostname of the system controller hosting the replacement license server.

Requesting emergency licenses

Requesting emergency license requires you to complete a short web-based form, supplying some basic information about the affected license servers, host system names, and some contact information.

About this task

To request emergency licenses for a license server, complete the Emergency License Facility form and send the request to Advantest as described in the procedure below.

Before you begin

Before you can request emergency licenses, you must be logged in at the Advantest License Portal and you must have information about the affected license servers that need emergency licenses and the replacement license server (host ID and hostname).

Procedure

  1. From the Affected license server list, select the server ID of the license server that is inoperable.

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    The selection list displays both FNP and FNE license servers:

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    If the license server is not listed, enter the host ID of the affected license server manually.


    If the affected license server is configured as a three-redundancy license server (Triad), enter the Server ID of only ONE of the three license servers.

    Note: If you have a login with a user name, there will be license servers listed in the selection list belonging to your assigned organizations. If the affected license server is not listed, you can enter it manually.


  2. Click Continue.

    The specified affected license server is displayed.

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  3. For the FNP replacement license server, select the server type (Single or Triad) and specify the host ID and hostname of the license server (first license server if you have a triad arrangement). For the FNE replacement license server you need to select the already registered replacement FNE license server from the selection list. If you are not able to view a newly registered FNE license server, log out from the license portal and log back in again.

  4. From the drop-downlist, select the name of the organization for which the emergency license is to be generated.

    Only organizations that you are assigned to are displayed.

    Optional: Add city and country location information.

  5. Enter the reason for requesting emergency licenses. Use one of the available options from the dropdown list or enter an alternative reason in the associated field.

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  6. Enter the name and email address of your local Advantest representative.

  7. If you want to send the emergency licenses to additional personnel, for example, your system administrator, add their email address to the Send license to other email addresses field. If entering multiple email addresses, separate addresses with a space.

  8. When you have entered all required information, click Create License.

    Note: The Create License button is active only if all mandatory fields are correctly completed. Clear Form clears all fields.


  9. Read the Terms and Conditions. To accept, click Agree and Proceed.

    A message window opens informing you that the emergency license has been sent successfully. After closing the message window you can download the emergency license with Download License.

  10. Log out or repeat the above steps to get another emergency license.

Results

The emergency license request is sent to Advantest.

If you need several emergency license for the same affected license server with different replacement servers, after creation of the license, the Download License button becomes active. Click it, download the license, and then request the next emergency license, specifying a different replacement license server.

What to do next

You will receive your emergency licenses as an attachment by email (license.zip). Install these emergency licenses on your license server. The expiration date of the emergency license is stated in the email.

Installing emergency licenses after failure and replacement of the license server

If your license server is not operational and must be temporarily replaced, you must install an alternative license server and install the emergency licenses on this temporary license server.

Before you begin

Obtain emergency licenses for the license servers that need to be temporarily rehosted. For details, see Requesting emergency licenses.

After you have received the emergency licenses, complete the following procedure.

Procedures

On the replacement license server:

  1. Install the FLEXlm executables (lmgrd, lmutil, ...) in the directory:/opt/flexlm/bin.

    If you do not have the executables, download them from:

    https://www.advantest.com/service-support/ic-test-systems/products-list/v93000-licensing, in FLEXlm License Server Software Downloads and Documents.

  2. Create the directory: /opt/flexlm/ELF

  3. Copy the emergency licenses to the /opt/flexlm/ELF directory.

  4. Start lmgrd pointing to the/opt/flexlm/ELF directory:

    /opt/flexlm/bin/lmgrd -c /opt/flexlm/ELF -l /opt/flexlm/log/log-file-name

On each test system controller (tester workstation):

  1. Create the directory:/opt/flexlm/ELF
  2. Copy the emergency licenses to the /opt/flexlm/ELF directory.
  3. Set the SOCBU_LICENSE_FILE environment variable to the directory: /opt/flexlm/ELF

What to do next

After the license server problems are fixed :

  • Emergency licenses and any backups must be deleted.
  • SOCBU_LICENSE_FILE environment variable must be reset on every test system controller (workstation).
  • License server process lmgrd, pointing to the/opt/flexlm/ELF directory, must be stopped.

Installing emergency licenses for license servers unavailable due to network problems

If your network is not reachable, you must install a local license server and emergency license on each of your test system controllers (workstations).

About this task

After you have received the emergency licenses, complete the following procedure on each test system controller (tester workstation).

Before you begin

Provide the host ID and hostname of every controller and obtain one (1) emergency license for each controller.

If, for example, you have a network problem and 5 workstations are affected, you must get 5 emergency licenses to establish 5 local license servers (one on each workstation).

For details, see Requesting emergency licenses.

Procedure

  1. Stop any other running local license servers.

  2. If not already available, install the FLEXlm executables (lmgrd, lmutil, ...) in the directory:/opt/flexlm/bin. 

    If you do not have the executables, download them from:

    https://www.advantest.com/service-support/ic-test-systems/products-list/v93000-licensing> FLEXlm License Server Software Downloads and Documents


  3. Create the directory: /opt/flexlm/ELF

  4. Copy the emergency licenses to the/opt/flexlm/ELFdirectory.

  5. Start lmgrd pointing to the /opt/flexlm/ELF directory:

    /opt/flexlm/bin/lmgrd -c /opt/flexlm/ELF -l /opt/flexlm/log/log-file-name

  6. To ensure that SmarTest accesses the emergency license, set the SOCBU_LICENSE_FILE environment variable to the /opt/flexlm/ELF directory.

What to do next

After the network problems are fixed: