SySAM provides these utilities, which allow the license administrator to manage network licensing activities:
lmborrow – supports license borrowing.
lmdiag – diagnoses license checkout problems.
lmdown – shuts down selected license daemons.
lmhostid – reports the system hostid.
lminstall – converts license files to different formats.
lmnewlog – moves existing report log information to a new file name or starts a new report log file with the existing file name.
lmpath – allows direct control over license file path settings.
lmremove – releases a failed license to the pool of free licenses.
lmreread – directs the license daemon to reread the license file and to start any new vendor daemons.
lmstat – displays the license server system status.
lmswitch – controls the size and location of the debug log.
lmswitchr – switches the report log to a new file name.
lmver – reports the FLEXnet licensing version of a library or binary file.
For more information, see Chapter 7 in the FLEXnet Licensing End-User Guide.
The sysam script located in $SYBASE/SYSAM-2_0/bin provides a wrapper for the most frequently used FLEXlm utilities. To display the help text, which provides complete instructions, enter the following command in a Command Prompt window:
sysam help
To display detailed help on a specific action, enter:
sysam help <action>
