Preferential licencing
    • 14 Aug 2024
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    Preferential licencing


    Article summary

    It is possible to speed up licence searching performed by the software. It is also possible to select the edition of Flood Modeller to be used by both the interface and the software.

    The full list of configuration options for the above optimisations, together with additional options relating to losing your licence connection and finding your network speed, are provided in the table below.

    To add these options to your configuration file:

    1. Completely close Flood Modeller
    2. Locate your formsed.ini file. By default, this is located here: C:\Users[your_username]\AppData\Roaming\Flood Modeller
    3. Open the formsed.ini file within a text editor
    4. Navigate to the [Preferences] section
    5. Add lines within this section as desired; these lines can be added anywhere within the [Preferences] block. See table below for a full list of available options.
    6. Save and close the formsed.ini file
    7. Open Flood Modeller 

    Tag

    Acceptable values (case insensitive)

    Outcome

    PREFERREDLICENCETYPE

    NETWORK4

    NETWORK[1]

     

    Use network licence (4 concurrent simulations per licence) in preference (NB WIBU[1] product licence codes 151, etc[2] need to be available)

    NETWORK1

     

    Use network licence (1 concurrent simulation per licence) in preference (i.e. WIBU[1] product licence codes 151, etc. are not available)

    STANDALONE

    (default)

    Use standalone licence in preference

    THISLICENCETYPEONLY

    T

    Y

    1

    Only use licence type specified by PREFERREDLICENCETYPE. (Do not search for others as backup)

    F

    N

    0

    (default)

    Search for other types in sequence as backup

    PREFERREDDONGLETYPE

    CMACT

    Use CmAct (virtual dongle) licence in preference

    CMSTICK

    DONGLE

    (default)

    Use CmDongle (physical dongle) in preference

    UFCUse with dongles, virtual and cloud containers (usually for > v6.0) [3]

    THISDONGLETYPEONLY

    T

    Y

    1

    Only use dongle type specified by PREFERREDDONGLETYPE. (Do not search for the alternative as backup)

    F

    N

    0

    (default)

    Search for the other type as backup

    PREFERREDLICENCESUPPLIER

    SENTINEL

    Use Sentinel licensing in preference

    WIBU

    (default)

    Use WIBU licensing in preference

    THISSUPPLIERONLY

    T

    Y

    1

    Only use supplier type specified by PREFERREDLICENCESUPPLIER. (Do not search for the alternative as backup)

    F

    N

    0

    (default)

    Search for the other supplier type as backup

    PREFERREDEDITION[3]

    LITE

    Use LITE edition licence

    STANDARD

    Use STANDARD edition licence

    PROFESSIONAL

    Use PROFESSIONAL edition licence

    UNLIMITED

    Use UNLIMITED edition licence

    DEFAULT

    (default)

    Use highest available licence edition for the interface and lowest available licence edition for the solvers

    THISEDITIONONLY[3]

    T

    Y

    1

    Only use licence edition specified by PREFERREDEDITION. (Do not search for others as backup)

    F

    N

    0

    (default)

    Search for other editions as backup

    LICENCEPERSISTENCE[3]

    N (where N is any positive integer)

    If the licence connection is lost, retry to find a licence N times

    -1

    (default)

    If the licence connection is lost, retry to find a licence indefinite times

    LICENCEPERSISTENCEPAUSE[3]

    N (where N is any positive integer >1000)

    If the licence connection is lost, retry to find a licence after a pause of N milliseconds

    5000

    (default)

    If the licence connection is lost, retry to find a licence after a pause of 5 seconds

    MAPCMNETWORK[3]

    T

    Y

    1

    Scans the network for all available combinations of servers and containers, and stores these for later use. Used to check network speed but can considerably slow down initialisation time of Flood Modeller.

    F

    N

    0

    (default)

    Does not scan the network for all available combinations of servers and containers. This option is recommended as the scan can considerably slow down initialisation time of Flood Modeller.

    [1]From v4.5 only, [2]And 154 (1,000 1D nodes), 155 (unlimited 1D nodes), 158, 159 (TUFLOW link), as appropriate, [3]From v6.0 only 

    Notes 

    1. Preferential licence search applies to all Flood Modeller modules from v6.0. Legacy versions (<v5.1) use the preferential search for 1D River simulations only. 
    2. If no tag is used, or an invalid value is entered, the default setting applies. 
    3. For network licences, it is possible to reduce network searching time by targeting the licence server directly – further details are given in the Network Licence Admin Guide

    Example 

    The following excerpt from the formsed.ini (settings) file shows the location of the above commands in the file (note: they can be positioned anywhere within the [Preferences] block). This example is to force the software to search only for a CmAct (5000219), network licence. You can copy and paste this into your formsed.ini if this is your licence type.

    [Preferences]
    PREFERREDDONGLETYPE=CMACT
    THISDONGLETYPEONLY=1
    PREFERREDLICENCETYPE=NETWORK
    THISLICENCETYPEONLY=1
    Note:
    If you try the above and receive a message when running simulations that there is no licence found/available, please change to PREFERREDDONGLETYPE = UFC.

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