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Athena 10 license server problem on latest Tecplot release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Tue Mar 24 19:11:13 2009
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To: testers@MIT.EDU
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:10:02 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I'm running into a license server problem on Athena 10 machines running the
latest Tecplot release. It uses a new license server derived from, but not
identical to FlexLM.
Symptoms: when on Athena 10 (both cluster and workstation) I attempt to launch:
add tecplot
tecplot -ver 360-09
I get an error dialog about "usr/host not on includeall list" and
Tecplot won't run. This list is an IP address range list on the
license server that limits access to MIT machines. We've used it
extensively before and never had a problem where a machine that should
be allowed is denied.
The error is exactly what you would get if a machine with IP address not on the
allowed range tries to run Tecplot. The machines in question are in N42 and
should be allowed (as they are when running older Tecplot releases, where I
don't see the problem).
Part of the list looks like this:
INCLUDEALL INTERNET 18.*.*.*
INCLUDEALL INTERNET 128.52.*.*
INCLUDEALL INTERNET 128.128.*.*
INCLUDEALL INTERNET 198.125.176.*
INCLUDEALL INTERNET 198.125.177.*
<and so on>
the interpretation is the obvious one- any machine in any of the wildcarded
ranges should be allowed. I verified that local machine configuration relating
to their IP address is correct, and that they ping at the correct IP address.
I tested this on a machine running Vanilla Intrepid with Open AFS- the problem
does not show up there and Tecplot runs without a problem. It also doesn't
show up on Athena 9 machines.
I conclude that something we're doing on Athena 10, both on cluster and
workstation, is triggering this but I have no idea what it might be.
Alex
