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Installation and Licensing Tutorials

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Table of Contents
Installing ANSYS, Inc. Products and Licensing on One Windows Machine ........................................................ 1
Installing ANSYS, Inc. Products on One Machine and a License Server on Another Machine ............................. 9
Installing ANSYS, Inc. Products and Licensing on One Linux Machine ............................................................ 17
Installing Redundant (Triad) License Servers ................................................................................................ 25
Running the ANSYS Licensing Interconnect and FLEXlm Independently on Windows ................................... 33

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Installing ANSYS, Inc. Products and Licensing on One Windows
Machine
Introduction
This tutorial walks you through the most basic installation and licensing configuration: installing ANSYS,
Inc. products and licensing on one Windows machine. This tutorial assumes that no ANSYS, Inc. products
or licensing have previously been installed on this machine or, if products have been installed, all
components, including licensing, have been completely removed.

If this scenario does not suit your needs, please see the other tutorials available from the Download
Center at https://www1.ansys.com/customer/.

You can follow this tutorial while actually installing the products and setting up the license server. To
do so, simply make the selections that are pertinent to you or insert your specific information where
noted.

Before You Begin

We recommend that you have the following information available before you begin this tutorial:

An account on the ANSYS Customer Portal. If you do not have an account, you may register at https://sup-
port.ansys.com/portal/site/AnsysCustomerPortal to receive your own account.

Your license file from ANSYS, Inc., saved to a temporary directory.

Open port numbers for both the FlexNet and ANSYS Licensing Interconnect. Defaults are 1055 and 2325,
respectively. To verify that these port numbers are available, open a command line and enter the following
command:
netstat -a -p tcp

You will see a list of active ports. If 1055 and 2325 are listed, they are already in use and cannot be
used for ANSYS, Inc. licensing. In this case, you will need to specify different port numbers where in-
dicated later in this tutorial.

Your local machine's name, to specify as the license server.

You should also verify that you are running on a supported platform. ANSYS, Inc. supports 64-bit systems
running Windows 7 and Windows 8. For detailed information on which products are supported on
which platforms, please see the ANSYS, Inc. Windows Installation Guide, which is available for download
when you download ANSYS, Inc. products or on the installation media.

Verify that you have sufficient disk space to download, uncompress, and install the products you will
be installing. Approximate disk space requirements for each product are shown in the ANSYS, Inc.
Windows Installation Guide.

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If you have any problems with or questions about the installation process please log a Service Request
on the ANSYS Customer Portal. A Systems Support Specialist will respond to assist you.

This tutorial is divided into three sets of instructions:

Product Download Instructions: This set of instructions describes the download and extraction process.

Product Installation with Client Licensing: This set of instructions describes the product installation, including
the client licensing portion.

License Manager Installation: This set of instructions describes the license manager installation.

For this tutorial, both the product and the license manager will be installed on the same machine. You
must complete both the client licensing portion and the license manager installation in order to run ANSYS,
Inc. products.

Product Download Instructions

1. From the Customer Portal, https://support.ansys.com/portal/site/AnsysCustomerPortal, click Downloads

> Current Release.

Step 1 of the ANSYS Download Center Select Full Products page is displayed.

2. Select your installation operating system (Windows x64 or Linux x64).

3. Select the type of files you wish to download:

Primary Packages: Individual full packages for the primary ANSYS products.

ISO Images: ISO images for the DVD installation.

4. Click the appropriate download option.

5. Select your desired download directory and click Save.

6. Repeat this process for each download file.

7. To download Add-On Packages, Tools or Academic Packages, click the + to the right of the appropriate
product group title to display the download options and download as required.

8. After all downloads have been completed, uncompress each package using standard uncompression
utilities for your specific platform. We strongly recommend that you extract the files into new, temporary
directories.

9. Begin the product installation as described in the next section.

Product Installation with Client Licensing

1. Navigate to the directory where you extracted the files. Right-click the setup.exe file and select Run
as administrator. The ANSYS, Inc. Installation Manager appears.

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2. Select the language you want to use. English is the default.

3. Click the Install ANSYS Products option.

4. The license agreement appears. Read the agreement, and if you agree to the terms and conditions, click
I Agree. Click Next.

5. The directory where you want to install the ANSYS, Inc. products is shown in the Install Directory field.
You can install the products into any directory you wish, but you must have write permissions to the dir-
ectory you choose. The default is C:\Program Files\ANSYS Inc. We recommend using the default
directory.

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Leave the Associate file extensions with ANSYS products checkbox marked. This allows you to
double-click files from Windows Explorer to launch the various products.

Click Next.

6. If this is a first time installation, you are prompted to enter your license server specification. If you already
have an existing license server specification file, you will not see this window and proceed directly to the
next step.

Enter your ANSYS Licensing Interconnect port number and your ANSYS FlexNet port number. Defaults
are provided and will work in most cases. You may need to check with your IT department to
confirm that the default port numbers are valid or to get different port numbers if necessary.

Specify the hostname for your license server machine(s).

Click Next.

7. All products available in the installation package(s) you downloaded are listed. You can select or deselect
any combination of products. ANSYS Workbench is automatically installed with most ANSYS, Inc. products;
there is no individual product selection for ANSYS Workbench.

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 If you select AutoCAD, Catia V5, Inventor, NX, Creo Parametric, Solid Edge, or SolidWorks, you will
have additional installation steps. This tutorial assumes you are not installing these CAD packages.
Deselect all of these options before continuing.

If you do want to install these products, please see the section Installing ANSYS, Inc. Products in the
ANSYS, Inc. Windows Installation Guide for more information on the additional steps required for
these packages.

By default, the Install Documentation option is enabled (checked). When enabled, help document-
ation is included as part of the installation process for all products selected. No help documentation
is included with the installation if this box is disabled (unchecked).

You will also see an estimate of the disk space required to install all of the selected components,
and the disk space you have available. The actual amount of disk space required may be less, but
if you choose to run the installation with insufficient disk space available, we strongly recommend
that you review the log files at the end of the installation to verify that all products were installed
correctly. Installation log files are written to the installation directory.

Select/deselect the products you want to install and click Next.

8. The dates on the licensing files being installed are compared to any that may already exist on your machine.
The more recent set of files will be used. This tutorial assumes that this is the first time you are installing
ANSYS, Inc. products on this machine; therefore, no licensing files will already exist and the files included
with the installation package will be used.

Click Next.

9. A summary screen appears that lists everything you have chosen to install. Review this list carefully to
verify that it is correct. If it is not, click Back to go to earlier screens to correct the product selections.

When you have verified the product selections, click Next. When you click Next on this screen, the
installation will begin.

10. The installation progress screen displays a status bar towards the bottom of the installation window. This
status bar tracks the percentage of packages that have been installed on your computer. Depending on
the number of products you have selected, the installation time required could be lengthy. You will not
be able to interrupt the installation process. Please be patient while the installation completes.

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The installation program will first check your system to determine if you have the necessary pre-
requisites. If the prerequisites are not already on your system, the prerequisites will be installed
automatically. You may be asked to run the necessary files (such as the .NET exe), or to reboot your
machine, depending on your existing machine configuration. If you are asked, you will need to
reboot in order to complete the prerequisite installation successfully.

Click Next to continue the installation.

Note

Clicking the View Details Progress Log button opens a second window that displays
the name of each product package as it is uncompressed and installed.

11. The product installation window reappears with a message noting that the installation is complete. A
Launch Survey Upon Exiting option is included here. Clicking Exit while the Launch Survey Upon Ex-
iting is enabled causes your default browser to open, displaying the product survey. Disabling (un-
checking) the Launch Survey Upon Exiting option and then clicking Exit skips the survey.

Note

If prerequisite components necessary for the installation of the ANSYS products

were installed, the following message may be displayed:

A system restart is required before using any ANSYS Products.

The ANSYS, Inc. Installation Launcher appears. For this stand-alone installation, you must complete
the License Manager installation (next) to run ANSYS, Inc. products.

License Manager Installation

Because you will not be using a network server, you must install and configure the ANSYS, Inc. License
Manager on your local machine. The License Manager controls access to the ANSYS, Inc. products you
have purchased. You must complete the License Manager installation to run ANSYS, Inc. products.

1. On the ANSYS, Inc. Installation Manager screen, click Install ANSYS License Manager.

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2. You will see a warning stating that if the license manager (ANSYS or FLEXlm for Ansoft (ansoftd)) is currently
running, it will be shut down. This tutorial assumes that you have not previously installed the products
or the licensing on this machine, and you are not pointing to a network license server machine. You may
safely ignore this message and click OK.

3. The license agreement appears. Read the agreement, and if you agree to the terms and conditions, click
I Agree. Click Next.

4. The directory where the license manager will be installed is shown in the Install Directory field. Accept
the default directory and click Next.

5. The ANSYS, Inc. License Manager is selected as the only product available to install. As with the product
installation, the required and available disk space numbers are shown. Click Next.

6. The licensing file dates are compared to ensure that the most recent version of the licensing files are being
used. This tutorial assumes that this is the first time you are installing ANSYS, Inc. products on this machine;
therefore, no licensing files will already exist and the files included with the installation package will be
used. Click Next.

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7. A summary screen appears that lists the products to be installed. Because this is a license manager install-
ation, the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager is the only product listed.

Click Next. The license manager installation begins.

8. Once the product installation has occurred, the installation program performs a silent licensing config-
uration. Click Next to continue the installation.

The Launch License Management Center upon exiting option is included on the screen. The
ANSYS License Management Center is a browser-based application that centralizes many of the
ANSYS licensing administrative functions.

If you do not want to launch the License Management Center, uncheck the Launch License Man-
agement Center upon exiting option.

Note

If the installation did not complete or completed with errors, review the progress
log by clicking the View Detailed Progress Log button.

9. When the license manager installation is complete, click Exit. A new Start Menu item named ANSYS, Inc.
License Manager will be created automatically. It will include selections for the License Management
Center, the ANSYS, Inc. Licensing Guide, the FlexNet License Administration Guide and the ANSLIC_ADMIN
utility.

Note

Client machines will also include a Client ANSLIC_ADMIN option under the ANSYS 16.2
Start Menu folder. The client-only version of ANSLIC_ADMIN offers access to a limited
number of ANSLIC_ADMIN features, such as user configuration and status/reporting
options. Note that the client component will not be installed with Electronics (Ansoft)
products, nor is it needed.

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on Another Machine
Introduction
This tutorial walks you through installing ANSYS, Inc. products on one Windows machine and installing
the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager on a different Windows machine that will act as a license server. This
tutorial assumes that no ANSYS, Inc. products or licensing have previously been installed on these ma-
chines or, if products have been installed, all components, including licensing, have been completely
removed.

If this scenario does not suit your needs, please see the other tutorials available on the Download
Center at https://www1.ansys.com/customer/.

You can follow this tutorial while actually installing the products and setting up the license server. To
do so, simply make the selections that are pertinent to you or insert your specific information where
noted.

Before You Begin

We recommend that you have the following information available before you begin this tutorial:

An account on the ANSYS Customer Portal. If you do not have an account, you may register at https://
www1.ansys.com/customer/ to receive your own account.

Your license file from ANSYS, Inc., saved to a temporary directory.

Open port numbers for both the FlexNet and ANSYS Licensing Interconnect on your license server machine.
Defaults are 1055 and 2325, respectively. To verify that these port numbers are available, open a command
line on the server machine and enter the following command:
netstat -a -p tcp

You will see a list of active ports. If 1055 and 2325 are listed, they are already in use and cannot be
used for ANSYS, Inc. licensing. In this case, you will need to specify different port numbers where in-
dicated later in this tutorial.

The name of the machine that will act as a license server.

You should also verify that you are running on a supported platform. ANSYS, Inc. supports 64-bit systems
running Windows 7 and Windows 8. For detailed information on which products are supported on
which platforms, please see the ANSYS, Inc. Windows Installation Guide, which is available for download
when you download ANSYS, Inc. products or on the installation media.

Verify that you have sufficient disk space to download, uncompress, and install the products you will
be installing. Approximate disk space requirements for each product are shown in the ANSYS, Inc.
Windows Installation Guide.

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If you have any problems with or questions about the installation process please log a Service Request
on the ANSYS Customer Portal. A Systems Support Specialist will respond to assist you.

This tutorial is divided into three sets of instructions:

Product Download Instructions: This set of instructions describes the download and extraction process.

Product Installation with Client Licensing: This set of instructions describes the product installation, including
the client licensing portion.

License Manager Installation: This set of instructions describes the license manager installation.

For this tutorial, the product and the license manager will be installed on separate Windows machines.
You must complete both the client licensing portion and the license manager installation in order to run
ANSYS, Inc. products.

Product Download Instructions

1. From the Customer Portal, https://support.ansys.com/portal/site/AnsysCustomerPortal, click Downloads

> Current Release.

Step 1 of the ANSYS Download Center Select Full Products page is displayed.

2. Select your installation operating system (Windows x64 or Linux x64).

3. Select the type of files you wish to download:

Primary Packages: Individual full packages for the primary ANSYS products.

ISO Images: ISO images for the DVD installation.

4. Click the appropriate download option.

5. Select your desired download directory and click Save.

6. Repeat this process for each download file.

7. To download Add-On Packages, Tools or Academic Packages, click the + to the right of the appropriate
product group title to display the download options and download as required.

8. After all downloads have been completed, uncompress each package using standard uncompression
utilities for your specific platform. We strongly recommend that you extract the files into new, temporary
directories.

9. Begin the product installation as described in the next section.

Product Installation with Client Licensing

1. Navigate to the directory where you extracted the files. Right-click the setup.exe file and select Run
as administrator. The ANSYS, Inc. Installation Manager appears.

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2. Select the language you want to use. English is the default.

3. Click the Install ANSYS Products button.

4. The license agreement appears. Read the agreement, and if you agree to the terms and conditions, click
I Agree. Click Next.

5. The directory where you wish to install the ANSYS, Inc. products is shown in the Install Directory field.
You can install the products into any directory you wish, but you must have write permissions to the dir-
ectory you choose. The default is C:\Program Files\ANSYS Inc. We recommend using the default
directory.

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Leave the Associate file extensions with ANSYS products checkbox marked. This allows you to
double-click files from Windows Explorer to launch the various products.

Click Next.

6. If this is a first time installation, you are prompted to enter your license server specification. If you already
have an existing license server specification file, you will not see this window and proceed directly to the
next step.

Enter your ANSYS Licensing Interconnect port number and your ANSYS FlexNet port number. Defaults
are provided and will work in most cases. You may need to check with your IT department to
confirm that the default port numbers are valid or to get different port numbers if necessary.

Specify the hostname for your license server machine(s).

Click Next.

7. All products available in the installation package(s) you downloaded are listed. You can select or deselect
any combination of products. ANSYS Workbench is automatically installed with most ANSYS, Inc. products;
there is no individual product selection for ANSYS Workbench.

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 If you select AutoCAD, Catia V5, Inventor, NX, Creo Parametric, Solid Edge, or SolidWorks, you will
have additional installation steps. This tutorial assumes you are not installing these CAD packages.
Deselect all of these options before continuing.

If you do want to install these products, please see the section Installing ANSYS, Inc. Products in the
ANSYS, Inc. Windows Installation Guide for more information on the additional steps required for
these packages.

By default, the Install Documentation option is enabled (checked). When enabled, help document-
ation is included as part of the installation process for all products selected. No help documentation
is included with the installation if this box is disabled (unchecked).

You will also see an estimate of the disk space required to install all of the selected components,
and the disk space you have available. The actual amount of disk space required may be less, but
if you choose to run the installation with insufficient disk space available, we strongly recommend
that you review the log files at the end of the installation to verify that all products were installed
correctly. Installation log files are written to the installation directory.

Select the products you want to install and click Next.

8. The dates on the licensing files being installed are compared to any that may already exist on your machine.
The more recent set of files will be used. This tutorial assumes that this is the first time you are installing
ANSYS, Inc. products on this machine; therefore, no licensing files will already exist and the files included
with the installation package will be used.

Click Next.

9. A summary screen appears that lists everything you have chosen to install. Review this list carefully to
verify that it is correct. If it is not, click Back to go to earlier screens to correct the product selections.

When you have verified the product selections, click Next. When you click Next on this screen, the
installation will begin.

10. The installation progress screen displays a status bar towards the bottom of the installation window. This
status bar tracks the percentage of packages that have been installed on your computer. Depending on
the number of products you have selected, the installation time required could be lengthy. You will not
be able to interrupt the installation process. Please be patient while the installation completes.

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The installation program will first check your system to determine if you have the necessary pre-
requisites. If the prerequisites are not already on your system, the prerequisites will be installed
automatically. You may be asked to run the necessary files (such as the .NET exe), or to reboot your
machine, depending on your existing machine configuration. If you are asked, you will need to
reboot in order to complete the prerequisite installation successfully.

Click Next to continue the installation.

Note

Clicking the View Details Progress Log button opens a second window that displays
the name of each product package as it is uncompressed and installed.

11. The product installation window reappears with a message noting that the installation is complete. A
Launch Survey Upon Exiting option is included here. Clicking Exit while the Launch Survey Upon Ex-
iting is enabled causes your default browser to open, displaying the product survey. Disabling (un-
checking) the Launch Survey Upon Exiting option and then clicking Exit skips the survey.

Note

If prerequisite components necessary for the installation of the ANSYS products

were installed, the following message may be displayed:

A system restart is required before using any ANSYS Products.

License Manager Installation

Because you will be using a network server, you must install and configure the ANSYS, Inc. License
Manager on the server machine. The License Manager controls access to the ANSYS, Inc. products you
have purchased.

1. On the server machine, navigate to the directory where the installation packages reside. Double-click the
setup.exe file. The ANSYS, Inc. Installation Manager appears. Click Install ANSYS License Manager.

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2. You will see a warning stating that if the license manager is currently running, it will be shut down. This
tutorial assumes that you have not previously installed the products or the licensing on this machine, and
are not already running the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager on this machine. You may safely ignore this
message and click OK.

3. The license agreement appears. Read the agreement, and if you agree to the terms and conditions, click
I Agree. Click Next.

4. The directory where the license manager will be installed is shown in the Install Directory field. Accept
the default directory and click Next.

5. The ANSYS, Inc. License Manager is selected as the only product available to install. As with the product
installation, the required and available disk space numbers are shown. Click Next.

6. The licensing file dates are compared to ensure that the most recent version of the licensing files are being
used. This tutorial assumes that this is the first time you are installing ANSYS, Inc. products on this machine;
therefore, no licensing files will already exist and the files included with the installation package will be
used. Click Next.

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7. A summary screen appears that lists the products to be installed. Because this is a license manager install-
ation, the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager is the only product listed.

Click Next. The license manager installation begins.

8. Once the product installation has occurred, the installation program performs a silent licensing config-
uration. Click Next to continue the installation.

The Launch License Management Center upon exiting option is included on the screen. The
ANSYS License Management Center is a browser-based application that centralizes many of the
ANSYS licensing administrative functions.

If you do not want to launch the License Management Center, uncheck the Launch License Man-
agement Center upon exiting option.

Note

If the installation did not complete or completed with errors, review the progress
log by clicking the View Detailed Progress Log button.

9. When the license manager installation is complete, click Exit. A new Start Menu item named ANSYS, Inc.
License Manager will be created automatically. It will include selections for the License Management
Center, the ANSYS, Inc. Licensing Guide, the FlexNet License Administration Guide and the ANSLIC_ADMIN
utility.

Note

Client machines will also include a Client ANSLIC_ADMIN option under the ANSYS 16.2
Start Menu folder. The client-only version of ANSLIC_ADMIN offers access to a limited
number of ANSLIC_ADMIN features, such as user configuration and status/reporting
options. Note that the client component will not be installed with Electronics (Ansoft)
products, nor is it needed.

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Installing ANSYS, Inc. Products and Licensing on One Linux Machine
Introduction
This tutorial walks you through installing ANSYS, Inc. products and licensing on one Linux machine.
This tutorial assumes that no ANSYS, Inc. products or licensing have previously been installed on this
machine or, if products have been installed, all components, including licensing, have been completely
removed.

If this scenario does not suit your needs, please see the other tutorials available on the Download
Center at https://www1.ansys.com/customer/.

You can follow this tutorial while actually installing the products and setting up the license server. To
do so, simply make the selections that are pertinent to you or insert your specific information where
noted.

Before You Begin

We recommend that you have the following information available before you begin this tutorial:

An account on the ANSYS Customer Portal. If you do not have an account, you may register at https://
www1.ansys.com/customer/ to receive your own account.

Your license file from ANSYS, Inc., saved to a temporary directory.

Open port numbers for both the FLEXlm and ANSYS Licensing Interconnect. Defaults are 1055 and 2325,
respectively. To verify that these port numbers are available, open a command line and enter the following
command:
netstat -a -t

You will see a list of active ports. If 1055 and 2325 are listed, they are already in use and cannot be
used for ANSYS, Inc. licensing. In this case, you will need to specify different port numbers where in-
dicated later in this tutorial.

Your local machine's name, to specify as the license server.

You should also verify that you are running on a supported platform. ANSYS, Inc. products support 64-
bit Linux systems running Red Hat 5.7 through 5.9 and 6.2 through 6.4 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 11.1
through 11.2. For detailed information on which products are supported on which platforms, please
see the ANSYS, Inc. Linux Installation Guide, which is available for download when you download ANSYS,
Inc. products or on the installation media.

Verify that you have sufficient disk space to download, uncompress, and install the products you will
be installing. Approximate disk space requirements for each product are shown in the ANSYS, Inc. Linux
Installation Guide.

If you have any problems with or questions about the installation process please log a Service Request
on the ANSYS Customer Portal. A Systems Support Specialist will respond to assist you.

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This tutorial is divided into three sets of instructions:

Product Download Instructions: This set of instructions describes the download and extraction process.

Product Installation with Client Licensing: This set of instructions describes the product installation, including
the client licensing portion.

License Manager Installation: This set of instructions describes the license manager installation.

For this tutorial, both the product and the license manager will be installed on the same machine. You
must complete both the client licensing portion and the license manager installation in order to run ANSYS,
Inc. products.

Product Download Instructions

1. From the Customer Portal, https://support.ansys.com/portal/site/AnsysCustomerPortal, click Downloads

> Current Release.

Step 1 of the ANSYS Download Center Select Full Products page is displayed.

2. Select your installation operating system (Windows x64 or Linux x64).

3. Select the type of files you wish to download:

Primary Packages: Individual full packages for the primary ANSYS products.

ISO Images: ISO images for the DVD installation.

4. Click the appropriate download option.

5. Select your desired download directory and click Save.

6. Repeat this process for each download file.

7. To download Add-On Packages, Tools or Academic Packages, click the + to the right of the appropriate
product group title to display the download options and download as required.

8. After all downloads have been completed, uncompress each package using standard uncompression
utilities for your specific platform. We strongly recommend that you extract the files into new, temporary
directories.

9. Begin the product installation as described in the next section.

Product Installation with Client Licensing

1. Navigate to the directory where you extracted the files. Run ./INSTALL.

2. Select the language you want to use. English is the default.

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3. The license agreement appears. Read the agreement, and if you agree to the terms and conditions, click
I Agree. Click Next.

4. The directory where you wish to install the ANSYS, Inc. products is shown in the Install Directory field.
You can install the products into any directory you wish, but you must have write permissions to the dir-
ectory you choose. The default is /ansys_inc. We recommend using the default directory.

Click Next.

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5. If this is a first time installation, you are prompted to enter your license server specification. If you already
have an existing license server specification file, you will not see this window and proceed directly to the
next step.

Enter your ANSYS Licensing Interconnect port number and your ANSYS FlexNet port number. Defaults
are provided and will work in most cases. You may need to check with your IT department to
confirm that the default port numbers are valid or to get different port numbers if necessary.

Specify the hostname for your license server machine(s).

Click Next.

6. All products available in the installation package(s) you downloaded are listed. You can select or deselect
any combination of products. ANSYS Workbench is automatically installed with most ANSYS, Inc. products;
there is no individual product selection for ANSYS Workbench.

If you select NX or ICEM CFD NX, you will have additional installation steps. This tutorial assumes
you are not installing these CAD packages. Deselect these options before continuing.

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 If you do want to install these products, please see the section Installing ANSYS, Inc. Products in the
ANSYS, Inc. Linux Installation Guide for more information on the additional steps required for these
packages.

You will also see an estimate of the disk space required to install all of the selected components,
and the disk space you have available. The actual amount of disk space required may be less, but
if you choose to run the installation with insufficient disk space available, we strongly recommend
that you review the log files at the end of the installation to verify that all products were installed
correctly. Installation log files are written to the installation directory.

Select the products you want to install and click Next.

7. The dates on the licensing files being installed are compared to any that may already exist on your machine.
The more recent set of files will be installed. This tutorial assumes that this is the first time you are installing
ANSYS, Inc. products on this machine; therefore, no licensing files will already exist and the files included
with the installation package will be used.

Click Next.

8. A summary screen appears that lists everything you have chosen to install. Review this list carefully to
verify that it is correct. If it is not, click Back to go to earlier screens to correct the product selections.
When you click Next on this screen, the installation will begin.

When you have verified the product selections, click Next.

9. As each product package is uncompressed and installed, it will display in the status window. Depending
on the number of products you have selected, the installation time required could be lengthy. You will
not be able to interrupt the installation process. Please be patient while the installation completes.

10. The installation progress screen displays a status bar towards the bottom of the installation window. This
status bar tracks the percentage of packages that have been installed on your computer. Depending on

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the number of products you have selected, the installation time required could be lengthy. You will not
be able to interrupt the installation process. Please be patient while the installation completes.

Note

Clicking the View Details Progress Log button opens a second window that displays
the name of each product package as it is uncompressed and installed.

Click Next to continue the installation.

11. The product installation window reappears with a message noting that the installation is complete. A
Launch Survey Upon Exiting option is included here. Clicking Exit while the Launch Survey Upon Ex-
iting is enabled causes your default browser to open, displaying the product survey. Disabling (un-
checking) the Launch Survey Upon Exiting option and then clicking Exit skips the survey.

The ANSYS, Inc. Installation Launcher appears. For this stand-alone installation, you must complete
the License Manager installation (next) to run ANSYS, Inc. products.

License Manager Installation

Because you will not be using a network server, you must install and configure the ANSYS, Inc. License
Manager on your machine. The License Manager controls access to the ANSYS, Inc. products you have
purchased.

1. Navigate to the directory where you extracted the files. Run ./INSTALL.LM.

2. You will see a warning stating that if the license manager is currently running, it will be shut down. This
tutorial assumes that you have not previously installed the products or the licensing on this machine, and
you are not pointing to a network license server machine. You may safely ignore this message and click
OK.

3. Select the language you want to use. English is the default.

4. The license agreement appears. Read the agreement, and if you agree to the terms and conditions, click
I Agree. Click Next.

5. The directory where you wish to install the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager is shown in the Install Directory
field. You can install the products into any directory you wish, but you must have write permissions to
the directory you choose. The default is /ansys_inc. We recommend using the default directory. You
must use the same directory where the products were installed.

6. The ANSYS, Inc. License Manager is selected as the only product available to install. As with the product
installation, the required and available disk space numbers are shown. Click Next.

7. A summary screen appears that lists the products to be installed. Because this is a license manager install-
ation, the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager is the only product listed.

Click Next. The license manager installation begins.

The ANSYS, Inc. License Manager is now being installed and configured on your system. After the
License Manager installation has been completed, the Launch License Management Center upon
exiting option is included on the screen. The ANSYS License Management Center is a browser-
based user interface that centralizes many of the ANSYS product licensing administrative functions.

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 If you do not wish to launch the License Management Center, uncheck the Launch License Man-
agement Center upon exiting option.

8. Click Exit to close the License Manager Installation screen.

9. Click Exit to close the ANSYS, Inc. Installation Manager.

10. Open a terminal window and navigate to your ANSYS installation. The following table lists the default
paths to start the ANSYS products you have installed.

Application Locations
Application How to Launch
ACP /ansys_inc/v162/ACP.sh
CFD Post /ansys_inc/v162/cfdpost
CFX /ansys_inc/v162/CFX/bin/<productname>

Where <productname> can be cfx5, cfx5launch, cfx5pre, cfx-

solve, or cfx5post.
FLUENT /ansys_inc/v162/fluent/bin/fluent
ICEM CFD /ansys_inc/v162/icemcfd/icemcfd
ICEPAK /ansys_inc/v162/icepak/icepak
PolyFlow /ansys_inc/v162/polyflow/bin/polyflow
Turbogrid /ansys_inc/v162TurboGrid/bin/cfxtg
Workbench /ansys_inc/v162/Framework/bin/Linux64/runwb2

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Installing Redundant (Triad) License Servers
Introduction
This tutorial walks you through installing the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager on three Linux machines
which will act as redundant (triad) license servers, and then installing the ANSYS, Inc. products and client
licensing on each end user's machine and configuring users to point to these servers. This tutorial assumes
that no ANSYS, Inc. products or licensing have previously been installed on these machines or, if products
have been installed, all components, including licensing, have been completely removed. This tutorial
is intended to be used by a site's system administrator or IT professional who will be installing and
configuring products and licensing for site-wide use.

If this scenario does not suit your needs, please see the other tutorials available on the Download
Center at https://www1.ansys.com/customer/.

You can follow this tutorial while actually installing the products and setting up the license servers. To
do so, simply make the selections that are pertinent to you or insert your specific information where
noted.

Before You Begin

We recommend that you have the following information available before you begin this tutorial:

An account on the ANSYS Customer Portal. If you do not have an account, you may register at https://
www1.ansys.com/customer/ to receive your own account.

Your license file from ANSYS, Inc., saved to a temporary directory.

Open port numbers for both the FlexNet and ANSYS Licensing Interconnect on your license server machine.
Defaults are 1055 and 2325, respectively. To verify that these port numbers are available, open a command
line on the server machine and enter the following command:
netstat -a -t

You will see a list of active ports. If 1055 and 2325 are listed, they are already in use and cannot be
used for ANSYS, Inc. licensing. In this case, you will need to specify different port numbers where in-
dicated later in this tutorial.

The name of the machines that will act as license servers.

You should also verify that you are running on a supported platform. ANSYS, Inc. products support 64-
bit Linux systems running Red Hat 5.7 through 5.9 and 6.2 through 6.4 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 11.1
through 11.2. For detailed information on which products are supported on which platforms, please
see the ANSYS, Inc. Linux Installation Guide, which is available for download when you download ANSYS,
Inc. products or on the installation media.

Verify that you have sufficient disk space to download, uncompress, and install the products you will
be installing. Approximate disk space requirements for each product are shown in the ANSYS, Inc. Linux
Installation Guide.

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If you have any problems with or questions about the installation process please log a Service Request
on the ANSYS Customer Portal. A Systems Support Specialist will respond to assist you.

This tutorial is divided into three sets of instructions:

Product Download Instructions: This set of instructions describes the download and extraction process.

License Manager Installation: This set of instructions describes the license manager installation and triad
configuration.

Product Installation with Client Licensing: This set of instructions describes the product installation, including
the client licensing portion.

You must complete both the client licensing portion and the license manager installation in order to run
ANSYS, Inc. products.

Product Download Instructions

1. From the Customer Portal, https://support.ansys.com/portal/site/AnsysCustomerPortal, click Downloads

> Current Release.

Step 1 of the ANSYS Download Center Select Full Products page is displayed.

2. Select your installation operating system (Windows x64 or Linux x64).

3. Select the type of files you wish to download:

Primary Packages: Individual full packages for the primary ANSYS products.

ISO Images: ISO images for the DVD installation.

4. Click the appropriate download option.

5. Select your desired download directory and click Save.

6. Repeat this process for each download file.

7. To download Add-On Packages, Tools or Academic Packages, click the + to the right of the appropriate
product group title to display the download options and download as required.

8. After all downloads have been completed, uncompress each package using standard uncompression
utilities for your specific platform. We strongly recommend that you extract the files into new, temporary
directories.

9. Begin the product installation as described in the next section.

License Manager Installation and Triad Configuration

To use a redundant server configuration of three machines, you must install and configure the ANSYS,
Inc. License Manager on each of the three server machines. The License Manager controls access to the
ANSYS, Inc. products you have purchased.

1. On each server machine, navigate to the directory where the installation packages reside. Run the
./INSTALL.LM file.

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2. You will see a warning stating that if the license manager is currently running, it will be shut down. This
tutorial assumes that you have not previously installed the products or the licensing on these machines,
and are not already running the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager on these machines. You may safely ignore
this message and click OK.

3. Select the language you want to use. English is the default.

4. The license agreement appears. Read the agreement, and if you agree to the terms and conditions, click
I Agree. Click Next.

5. The directory where you wish to install the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager is shown in the Install Directory
field. You can install the products into any directory you wish, but you must have write permissions to
the directory you choose. The default is /ansys_inc. We recommend using the default directory.

6. The ANSYS, Inc. License Manager is selected as the only product available to install. The required and
available disk space numbers are shown. Verify that you have sufficient disk space to install the license
manager and click Next.

7. The licensing file dates are compared to ensure that the most recent version of the licensing files are being
used. This tutorial assumes that this is the first time you are installing ANSYS, Inc. products on this machine;
therefore, no licensing files will already exist and the files included with the installation package will be
used. Click Next.

8. A summary screen appears that lists the products to be installed. Because this is a license manager install-
ation, the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager is the only product listed.

Click Next. The license manager installation begins.

9. Once the product installation has occurred, the installation program performs a silent licensing config-
uration. Click Next to continue the installation.

The Launch License Management Center upon exiting option is included on the screen. The
ANSYS License Management Center is a browser-based application that centralizes many of the
ANSYS licensing administrative functions.

Note

If the installation did not complete or completed with errors, review the progress
log by clicking the View Detailed Progress Log button.

10. When the license manager installation is complete, click Exit. A new Start Menu item named ANSYS, Inc.
License Manager will be created automatically. It will include selections for the License Management
Center, the ANSYS, Inc. Licensing Guide, the FlexNet License Administration Guide and the ANSLIC_ADMIN
utility.

The ANSYS, Inc. License Manager appears in your default browser.

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11. At this point, you need to install a license file. Click Add a License File. You will then need to specify the
location of the license file sent to you by ANSYS, Inc. Use the Browse button to navigate to the location
of the license file. All three server machines must install the same license file.

12. Close the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager.

13. Repeat this installation on all three license server machines.

14. When all three license server machines have the license manager installed, start the license manager on
all of them, starting with the primary license server machine (the machine listed first in the license file).

15. To start the license manager, open the ANSYS License Management Center.

16. Click the Start button located on the right side of the page.

The Status pane displays a message informing you whether the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager
started successfully or if any errors have been encountered. Additionally, a green check mark
status icon is displayed indicating that the license manager is running.

17. Close the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager.

Product Installation with Client Licensing

You will now install the products and client licensing on each user's machine. This tutorial assumes that
the client machines are Windows machines. The process is similar on Linux clients; see the ANSYS, Inc.
Linux Installation Guide for detailed installation instructions for installing the products and client licensing
on Linux machines. Follow the steps below on each user's machine.

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1. Navigate to the directory where you extracted the files. Double-click the setup.exe file. The ANSYS,
Inc. Installation Manager appears.

2. Select the language you want to use. English is the default.

3. Click the Install ANSYS Products button.

4. The license agreement appears. Read the agreement, and if you agree to the terms and conditions, click
I Agree. Click Next.

5. The directory where you wish to install the ANSYS, Inc. products is shown in the Install Directory field.
You can install the products into any directory you wish, but you must have write permissions to the dir-
ectory you choose. The default is C:\Program Files\ANSYS Inc. We recommend using the default
directory.

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Leave the Associate file extensions with ANSYS products checkbox marked. This allows you to
double-click files from Windows Explorer to launch the various products.

Click Next.

6. If this is a first time installation, you are prompted to enter your license server specification. If you already
have an existing license server specification file, you will not see this window and proceed directly to the
next step.

Enter your ANSYS Licensing Interconnect port number and your ANSYS FlexNet port number. Defaults
are provided and will work in most cases. You may need to check with your IT department to
confirm that the default port numbers are valid or to get different port numbers if necessary.

Specify the hostname for your license server machine(s).

Click Next.

7. All products available in the installation package(s) you downloaded are listed. You can select or deselect
any combination of products. ANSYS Workbench is automatically installed with most ANSYS, Inc. products;
there is no individual product selection for ANSYS Workbench.

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 If you select AutoCAD, Catia V5, Inventor, NX, Creo Parametric, Solid Edge, SolidWorks, ICEM CFD
Creo Parametric, or ICEM CFD NX, you will have additional installation steps. This tutorial assumes
you are not installing these CAD packages. Deselect all of these options before continuing.

If you do want to install these products, please see the section Installing ANSYS, Inc. Products in the
ANSYS, Inc. Windows Installation Guide for more information on the additional steps required for
these packages.

By default, the Install Documentation option is enabled (checked). When enabled, help document-
ation is included as part of the installation process for all products selected. No help documentation
is included with the installation if this box is disabled (unchecked).

You will also see an estimate of the disk space required to install all of the selected components,
and the disk space you have available. The actual amount of disk space required may be less, but
if you choose to run the installation with insufficient disk space available, we strongly recommend
that you review the log files at the end of the installation to verify that all products were installed
correctly. Installation log files are written to the installation directory.

Select the products you want to install and click Next.

8. The dates on the licensing files being installed are compared to any that may already exist on your machine.
The more recent set of files will be installed. This tutorial assumes that this is the first time you are installing
ANSYS, Inc. products on this machine; therefore, no licensing files will already exist and the files included
with the installation package will be used.

Click Next.

9. A summary screen appears that lists everything you have chosen to install. Review this list carefully to
verify that it is correct. If it is not, click Back to go to earlier screens to correct the product selections.

When you have verified the product selections, click Next. When you click Next on this screen, the
installation will begin.

10. The installation progress screen displays a status bar towards the bottom of the installation window. This
status bar tracks the percentage of packages that have been installed on your computer. Depending on
the number of products you have selected, the installation time required could be lengthy. You will not
be able to interrupt the installation process. Please be patient while the installation completes.

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The installation program will first check your system to determine if you have the necessary pre-
requisites. If the prerequisites are not already on your system, the prerequisites will be installed
automatically. You may be asked to run the necessary files (such as the .NET exe), or to reboot your
machine, depending on your existing machine configuration. If you are asked, you will need to
reboot in order to complete the prerequisite installation successfully.

Click Next to continue the installation.

Note

Clicking the View Details Progress Log button opens a second window that displays
the name of each product package as it is uncompressed and installed.

11. The product installation window reappears with a message noting that the installation is complete. A
Launch Survey Upon Exiting option is included here. Clicking Exit while the Launch Survey Upon Ex-
iting is enabled causes your default browser to open, displaying the product survey. Disabling (un-
checking) the Launch Survey Upon Exiting option and then clicking Exit skips the survey.

Note

If prerequisite components necessary for the installation of the ANSYS products

were installed, the following message may be displayed:

A system restart is required before using any ANSYS Products.

The ANSYS, Inc. Installation Launcher appears. For this stand-alone installation, you must complete
the License Manager installation (next) to run ANSYS, Inc. products.

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Running the ANSYS Licensing Interconnect and FLEXlm
Independently on Windows
Introduction
This tutorial walks you through installing the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager on a Windows machine and
configuring it to run the two components, the ANSYS Licensing Interconnect and FLEXlm, independently.
This tutorial assumes that no ANSYS, Inc. products or licensing have previously been installed on this
machine or, if products have been installed, all components, including licensing, have been completely
removed.

Use this configuration if you want to manage your FlexNet licenses on a server machine independently
of the ANSYS, Inc. tools (for example, using Flexera Software's FlexNet Manager). This configuration
should be used only by experienced users with well-established licensing procedures. To use the License
Wizard to set up a license server that will run the Licensing Interconnect independently of FlexNet,
follow the steps below.

Important

Both the FlexNet and Licensing Interconnect components must be run on the same license
server machine.

Because FlexNet is being run independently, you will need to use your license management
tools (such as FlexNet Manager) to start/restart FlexNet or to reread the license file if you
make changes to the license file.

Even though the Licensing Interconnect will be running independently of FlexNet, the Licens-
ing Interconnect will still need to cache the contents of the FlexNet license file so that it
has the necessary licensing information, such as the licenses contained in the file. Therefore,
each time you make changes to the license file, in addition to rereading it in FlexNet, you
must also recache the license file in the Licensing Interconnect by restarting the Licensing
Interconnect or by rereading the license manager settings. To do this, see Rereading the License
Manager Settings in the ANSYS, Inc. Licensing Guide.

We strongly recommend that you review Advanced Licensing Configuration Options in the
ANSYS, Inc. Licensing Guide before using this option.

If this scenario does not suit your needs, please see the other tutorials available from the Download
Center at https://www1.ansys.com/customer/.

You can follow this tutorial while actually setting up the license server. To do so, simply make the selec-
tions that are pertinent to you or insert your specific information where noted.

Before You Begin

We recommend that you have the following information available before you begin this tutorial:

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An account on the ANSYS Customer Portal. If you do not have an account, you may register at https://sup-
port.ansys.com/portal/site/AnsysCustomerPortal to receive your own account.

The license file that was created for this machine from ANSYS, Inc., saved to a directory. FlexNet should
already be running with this license file.

Open port numbers for both the FlexNet and ANSYS Licensing Interconnect. Defaults are 1055 and 2325,
respectively. To verify that these port numbers are available, open a command line and enter the following
command:
netstat -a -p tcp

You will see a list of active ports. If 1055 and 2325 are listed, they are already in use and cannot be
used for ANSYS, Inc. licensing. This tutorial assumes you are using the default ports.

Your local machine's name, to specify as the license server.

You must also already have FlexNet running in your organization and have well-established licensing
procedures.

You should also verify that you are running on a supported platform. ANSYS, Inc. supports 64-bit systems
running Windows 7 and Windows 8. For detailed information on which products are supported on
which platforms, please see the ANSYS, Inc. Windows Installation Guide, which is available for download
when you download ANSYS, Inc. products or on the installation media.

Verify that you have sufficient disk space to download, uncompress, and install the products you will
be installing.

If you have any problems with or questions about the installation process please log a Service Request
on the ANSYS Customer Portal. A Systems Support Specialist will respond to assist you.

This tutorial is divided into three sets of instructions:

Product Download Instructions: This set of instructions describes the download and extraction process.

License Manager Installation: This set of instructions describes the license manager installation and config-
uration to run the Licensing Interconnect independently of FLEXlm.

Verification

Product Download Instructions

1. From the Customer Portal, https://support.ansys.com/portal/site/AnsysCustomerPortal, click Downloads

> Current Release.

Step 1 of the ANSYS Download Center Select Full Products page is displayed.

2. Select your installation operating system (Windows x64 or Linux x64).

3. Select the type of files you wish to download:

Primary Packages: Individual full packages for the primary ANSYS products.

ISO Images: ISO images for the DVD installation.

4. Click the appropriate download option.

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5. Select your desired download directory and click Save.

6. Repeat this process for each download file.

7. To download Add-On Packages, Tools or Academic Packages, click the + to the right of the appropriate
product group title to display the download options and download as required.

8. After all downloads have been completed, uncompress each package using standard uncompression
utilities for your specific platform. We strongly recommend that you extract the files into new, temporary
directories.

9. Begin the license manager installation as described in the next section.

License Manager Installation

The License Manager controls access to the ANSYS, Inc. products you have purchased. You must complete
the License Manager installation to run ANSYS, Inc. products.

1. Launch the ANSYS, Inc. Installation Manager by double-clicking setup.exe from the directory where
you downloaded and/or uncompressed the installation files from the previous section.

2. On the ANSYS, Inc. Installation Manager screen, click Install ANSYS, Inc. License Manager.

3. You will see a warning stating that if the license manager is currently running, it will be shut down. This
tutorial assumes that you have not previously installed the products or the licensing on this machine, and
you are not pointing to a network license server machine. You may safely ignore this message and click
OK.

4. The license agreement appears. Read the agreement, and if you agree to the terms and conditions, click
I Agree. Click Next.

5. The directory where the license manager will be installed is shown in the Install Directory field. You
cannot specify an installation directory; the license manager must be installed into <os direct-
ory>:\Program Files\ANSYS Inc. Click Next.

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6. The ANSYS, Inc. License Manager is selected as the only product available to install. As with the product
installation, the required and available disk space numbers are shown. Click Next.

7. The licensing file dates are compared to ensure that the most recent version of the licensing files are being
used. This tutorial assumes that this is the first time you are installing ANSYS, Inc. products on this machine;
therefore, no licensing files will already exist and the files included with the installation package will be
used. Click Next.

8. A summary screen appears that lists the products to be installed. Because this is a license manager install-
ation, the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager is the only product listed.

Click Next. The license manager installation begins.

9. Once the product installation has occurred, the installation program performs a silent licensing config-
uration. Click Next to continue the installation.

The Launch License Management Center upon exiting option is included on the screen. The
ANSYS License Management Center is a browser-based application that centralizes many of the
ANSYS licensing administrative functions.

Note

If the installation did not complete or completed with errors, review the progress
log by clicking the View Detailed Progress Log button.

10. When the license manager installation is complete, click Exit. The ANSYS, Inc. License Manager appears
in your default browser.

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11. Click Specify License Manager Run Mode.

12. From the License Manager Run Mode Specification screen, click the Run the ANSYS Licensing Inter-
connect and FlexNet independently option.

13. In the Enter Path of License File to Cache field, specify the path to an existing license file that was created
for this server machine and that contains FlexNet licenses for ANSYS, Inc. products. Note that the license
file will not be installed, (i.e., moved into the default ANSYS license file location), but will be cached so

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that the ANSYS Licensing Interconnect has the necessary licensing information, such as the licenses con-
tained in that file.

14. Click the Submit button to change the run mode..

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