Are there flexlm (flexnet) options to reserve for specific user on specific host?

Question

I'm setting up flexlm (Flexara Software - http://www.flexerasoftware.com) with limited licenses for a compiler. I have been asked to setup flex options to RESERVE one license for a user on a build host. This user is a build account that is not to be RESERVED on any other build host. I can't seem to find an option to RESERVE user@host.

Any ideas how I can get this done?

Answer 1

I know this has been sitting here for a while, but I want to provide an answer since I've been up the same creek many times with FlexNet Options Files.

The RESERVE keyword is only for users, so you would have to do something with INCLUDE or EXCLUDE.

 INCLUDE compilerfeature USER buildaccount
 INCLUDE compilerfeature HOST buildserver

The above statements do two things:

1. The first line allows the buildaccount to access the feature on any host to which they are logged in.
2. The second line allows access to the license if the user is logged into the buildserver.

So, implicitly, only the buildaccount can access the feature from the buildserver.

Unfortunately, this prevents other users from accessing the features, so you will probably want to create groups of users and hosts and use the RESERVE keyword to save one license for the buildaccount.

If there is a specific keyword in the license file that would identify a single license, you can also use that to allow access to a single license by a single user and/or host.