Firstly I would like to say sorry since it took me too long to come back on this platform But I hope only you can understand my situation messing with all the things alone...Anyway,I have made one machine as our server and named as you suggested...L:\Aveva..and copied all the files into it...So, when you will get some time for me kindly proceed...
Yes, I know very well that it can take time to get things to happen.
OK, now you have two files that need modifications in the L:\AVEVA\PDMS11.5.SP1 folder, pdms.bat and evars.bat
I suggest you do not edit the files with Notepad, as it many times will mess up the files completely. If you have some other text editor, like Textpad, Ultraedit, pfe32 etc, use them instead.
In pdms.bat, change the following row:
SET pdms_installed_dir=C:\CADCENTRE\Pdms11.5.SP1\
change it to:
SET pdms_installed_dir=L:\CADCENTRE\Pdms11.5.SP1
In evars.bat, do the following changes:
set pdmswk=%1\pdmswk
change it to:
set pdmswk=%TEMP%
(I guess that you do not want all users to write temporary PDMS files to the network server)
set pdmsuser=%1\pdmsuser
change it to a local folder where you want pdms to store macro files etc.
It could be something like:
set pdmsuser=C:\pdms\pdms11.5
Remeber to also create the local folder.
set CADC_PLOT_DIR=%PLOTCADC%
change it to:
set CADC_PLOT_DIR=%1\plot
After these changes have been done, create a shortcut pointing to pdms.bat on your L-drive, and set the Start In folder set to the same folder as the PDMSUSER variable(in the above example C:\pdms\pdms11.5)
You should now be able to start PDMS from the network by starting it from the shortcut.
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To make PDMS redirect to a local installation if it exists, add the following rows after the :exeok label in the evars.bat file:
REM *** Redirect to local installation (if it exists) ***
IF EXIST C:\AVEVA\PDMS11.5.SP1\mon.exe SET PDMSEXE=C:\AVEVA\PDMS11.5.SP1
This will make PDMS use executables from the local installation, but the rest will be run from network(PMLLIB,PDMSUI etc).
But I got stuck somewhere...Well, here on the individual systems I have Flexlm Folder where I have been keeping License files for each workstation and now all of a sudden, where should I keep all these license files on the server or keep it there only so that when I access PDMS from server, each wokstation will access it's own license file from that place Or just make my concept clear on how to utilise these licenses in a proper way...
I will just finish off with the things you have suggested and come up with the things......
I had to try it myself, and the =744@%COMPUTERNAME% woks well on my machine.
Have you installed and configured LMTools and the PDMS license locally on your machine?
This is going to be an excellent thread for anyone setting up PDMS at thier company. You can see how to do it, as well as see what type of speed-bumps you might encounter.
Well, I have tried by shutting down systems and restart followed by LMtools reading License file, start server and wooo..It's working, fetched the link successfully on the workstations running fine....Thanks Thomas....Quite Interesting and Exciting too...
Anyway...I would like to ask one more thing in between. Now when we have PDMS installed at only one PC that is our server and we have many users to work upon the
same project how can we distribute the access rights so that consistency stays intact.Shall I use Extracts instead
