To stop and restart a license server

Stop and restart a server on Windows, macOS, or Linux.

Audience Administrator

To perform system maintenance on a license server, including uninstalling Network License Manager, first stop the license server. When you finish maintenance work, restart the license server.

From a Windows license server

Stop the server

  1. Access LMTOOLS in the Windows Start menu.
  2. In LMTOOLS, click the Service/License File tab.
  3. Select the Configure Using Services option.
  4. Select the service name for the license server you want to stop manually.
  5. Click the Start/Stop/Reread tab.
  6. Stop the server.

    The best practice is to select Force Server Shutdown before clicking Stop Server. Then wait five seconds before attempting to start the server again.

Restart the server

On the Start/Stop/Reread tab in LMTOOLS, click Start Server.

From a macOS license server

Stop the server

Enter the following in Terminal: 

./lmutil lmdown -q -force

Restart the server

Enter the following in Terminal, replacing acad.lic with your license filename and debug.log with your log filename: 

./lmgrd -c acad.lic -l debug.log

From a Linux license server

Stop the server

Enter the following in Terminal: 

./lmutil lmdown -q -force

Restart the server

Enter the following in Terminal, replacing acad.lic with your license filename and debug.log with your log filename: 

./lmgrd -c acad.lic -l debug.log

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