I have noticed some serious "quirks" of installing The Foundry's FLT tools on Mac OS X. I figured I should probably list them here in case anyone else has noticed the same thing.
1) FLT's RLM daemon (including the X-FORCE release) run a web server at port 4102 on localhost (127.0.0.1) by default. This is NOT required to license TF's products, it's simply there for remote administration of a license server (presumably by a systems administrator). You should probably disable this since it does NOT do anything for you, nor do you require the functionality provided by it.
To disable this, edit /Library/LaunchDaemons/uk.co.thefoundry.rlm.plist:
Find the following keys:
Change them to:
You are changing the -ws argument to -nows, and removing the following 4102 string. This effectively tells RLM to disable the built-in web server interface, but to still serve up licenses otherwise. I recently "almost" got in deep shit for this- I had my laptop (with FLT installed) plugged into someone else's production network and their systems admin noticed the RLM web server on 4102 and tracked it down to my computer. Thankfully I happen to know them rather well so we just joked about it and had a laugh and that was that.
2) FLT's FLEXLM daemon will attempt to startup by default, but since there's no FLEXLM licenses installed it will immediately quit (this is by design). Unfortunately, TheFoundry opted for a launchctl plist that immediately attempts to restart the daemon after this happens, presumably until the end of time. You will see repeated messages in your console like this:
or this:
Every 10 seconds, and Console.app will basically be filled with tons of these repeated entries.
You can fix this issue by entering the following command in Terminal.app:
Don't worry! A copy of this file is stored at /Applications/TheFoundry/LicensingTools7.0/bin/Startup, since TheFoundry probably intended people to just delete whichever LaunchDaemon plist files they didn't need (for either RLM or FLEXLM). You'll also note that the FlexLM tab in FoundryLicenseUtility will automagically disappear, since the application is smart enough to query launchctl for loaded daemons and only display the relevant tabs (which further re-enforces my belief that you're just supposed to delete whichever plist you don't need if you don't have any licenses installed for that server).
This will, of course, disable FLEXLM licensing (unless you copy the aforementioned file back to /Library/LaunchDaemons)- but you don't need that anyways since the X-FORCE release is an RLM patch only.
Cheerio.
-SC
1) FLT's RLM daemon (including the X-FORCE release) run a web server at port 4102 on localhost (127.0.0.1) by default. This is NOT required to license TF's products, it's simply there for remote administration of a license server (presumably by a systems administrator). You should probably disable this since it does NOT do anything for you, nor do you require the functionality provided by it.
To disable this, edit /Library/LaunchDaemons/uk.co.thefoundry.rlm.plist:
Find the following keys:
Change them to:
You are changing the -ws argument to -nows, and removing the following 4102 string. This effectively tells RLM to disable the built-in web server interface, but to still serve up licenses otherwise. I recently "almost" got in deep shit for this- I had my laptop (with FLT installed) plugged into someone else's production network and their systems admin noticed the RLM web server on 4102 and tracked it down to my computer. Thankfully I happen to know them rather well so we just joked about it and had a laugh and that was that.
2) FLT's FLEXLM daemon will attempt to startup by default, but since there's no FLEXLM licenses installed it will immediately quit (this is by design). Unfortunately, TheFoundry opted for a launchctl plist that immediately attempts to restart the daemon after this happens, presumably until the end of time. You will see repeated messages in your console like this:
or this:
Every 10 seconds, and Console.app will basically be filled with tons of these repeated entries.
You can fix this issue by entering the following command in Terminal.app:
Don't worry! A copy of this file is stored at /Applications/TheFoundry/LicensingTools7.0/bin/Startup, since TheFoundry probably intended people to just delete whichever LaunchDaemon plist files they didn't need (for either RLM or FLEXLM). You'll also note that the FlexLM tab in FoundryLicenseUtility will automagically disappear, since the application is smart enough to query launchctl for loaded daemons and only display the relevant tabs (which further re-enforces my belief that you're just supposed to delete whichever plist you don't need if you don't have any licenses installed for that server).
This will, of course, disable FLEXLM licensing (unless you copy the aforementioned file back to /Library/LaunchDaemons)- but you don't need that anyways since the X-FORCE release is an RLM patch only.
Cheerio.
-SC