MATLAB Installation Guide for Unix

Setting Up User-Based Licensing

If you have a user-based license, you may need to:

• Check the FLEXlm license options file after your installation is complete, to make sure all licensed users are included.
• Check that the DAEMON line in your License File includes the options file specification, options=$MATLAB/etc/MLM.opt, where $MATLAB is your MATLAB installation directory.

Note    Do not confuse your License File with your options file. The License File contains the encrypted passcodes for each product you are licensed to install and run. The options file is a text file that contains license manager options statements, such as INCLUDE, EXCLUDE and GROUP lines.

The installer creates the options file, $MATLAB/etc/MLM.opt, as part of the installation process. The installer puts in the options file an INCLUDE line for each product you are licensed to install and run. By default, the installer puts the username of the person who performed the install in these INCLUDE lines. If you performed your own installation, the options file may not need editing. However, if you performed the installation for another user, or if you had root privileges when you performed the installation, you will need to edit this options file.

For example, if your username is sysadmin, the options file would look like this:

• INCLUDE MATLAB USER sysadmin
  INCLUDE Signal_Toolbox USER sysadmin
  INCLUDE Optimization_Toolbox USER sysadmin
  

You must replace sysadmin in these INCLUDE statements with the usernames of the licensed users. If multiple users are licensed for the same product, you must create a separate INCLUDE line for each user or use the FLEXlm GROUP syntax. (The number of users must not exceed the number of license keys available for that product.) This example shows both methods.

• GROUP matlab_users tom judy mike jean brad
  GROUP signal_users tom mike brad
  INCLUDE MATLAB GROUP matlab_users
  INCLUDE Signal_Toolbox GROUP signal_users
  INCLUDE Optimization_Toolbox USER mike
  INCLUDE Optimization_Toolbox USER jean
  

After You Install

Starting the License Manager