Where XXX is the trigram of the license you want to request (E.g. If this check returns a working server (as the screenshot above shows) and you’re still having problems, you can use DSCheckLS to make a dummy request for the license you want: It may be that it cannot connect at all, it may be that DSLS on the server is not a high enough release to work with the level of software you’re using or it might be that the server definition you’ve defined in the license control file is not correctly formatted. If there are any problems, the report will return the error.

Typing this on its own will just try to connect to the server declared in your licensing control file and you’ll see something like this: The program you want to run is called DSCheckLS.exe. (For different releases of CATIA, the “B214” folder will be different, for example V5 R21 will be in the B21 folder) To get to the license checking tool, open a command prompt and navigate to the bin directory of your software install, for example, for CATIA V6 R2013x:Ĭd C:Program FilesDassault SystemesB214win_b64codebin Where xxxxx is the hostname of the license server and 4085 is the default port for the license service. Fortunately, once you know how to get at it, it’s easy to use and gives helpful error messages when there is a problem.īefore you start, navigate to your license control file (C:ProgramDataDassaultSystemesLicensesDSlicSrv.txt on windows 7 and 8) and check the formatting of the text file. To assist with troubleshooting problems, a license checking tool is provided with every installation that uses DSLS, however it is squirreled away in the installation folder and can only be accessed via command line.

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