The information in this article applies to:
Product: ProVision
Version: 6.1.x 6.2.0
Issue
- How can a user specify the ports used by the Floating License Server to communicate with ProVision clients?
Resolution
By default, the Floating License Server uses port 27000 to communicate with ProVision clients. In addition, one port from the port range 27001-27009 is used as a secondary port. You can change which ports the Floating License Server uses by modifying your Floating License Server license file.
To specify the ports, rather than use the defaults, edit the license file located here: C:\\pvLicServer51\\Licenses\\pvwlicense.lic. Open the file in a text editor such as Notepad and modify the following 2 lines as shown.
Sample default:
SERVER 192.168.111.252 DISK\_SERIAL\_NUM=ac4108f7
VENDOR pvlicmgr
Sample with ports specified:
SERVER 192.168.111.252 DISK\_SERIAL\_NUM=ac4108f7 40
VENDOR pvlicmgr Port=30
In this case, port 30 is the primary port and port 40 is the secondary port. Any unused port can be specified.
If the default port of 27000 is not used, each client machine must have the environment variable set to the new port number. To do this, open ProVision on the client machine.
Go to Help -> About ProVision... -> License -> Configure License.
In the Server field, enter the port and IP address or port and server name separated by the @ symbol. In the example above, this would be entered as 30@192.168.111.252.
Click Configure.
Close all screens and re-open ProVision.
