flexlm

Flexlm

Overview

A role to manage Flexlm daemon and licence files.

This role will :

• Create a specific user to launch daemon.
• Set up a systemd service (flexlm-item.name).
• Copy vendor daemon binaries to the host if source is specified.
• Copy licence file to the host if source is specified.
• Create a symlink (/usr/tmp) to /tmp to avoid error (Ubuntu/Debian).
• Create a symlinks to ld-linux librairies (Ubuntu/Debian).

This role is validated on:

• RHEL / CentOS 7 & 8
• Debian Buster
• Ubuntu 18.04 & 20.04

Role Variables

• flexlm_required_packages : List of required packages requested as 'flexlm' dependencies [default : []]
• flexlm_deploy_state : The desired state this role should achieve. [default : present].
• flexlm_user_name : Username used to launch lmgrd [default : flexlm].
• flexlm_service_unit_content : Template used to generate the previous file [default : etc/systemd/system/flexlm.service.j2].
• flexlm_licences : Lists to manage vendor daemon and licence files [default : []].

Example Playbook

• Manage Flexlm to provide Intel (without binaries) :

- hosts: intel-lm
  roles:
    - role: flexlm
      flexlm_licences:
        - name: intel
          description: 'flexlm Licence Manager for Intel'
          bin_path: '/opt/intel/bin'
          lic_path: '/opt/intel/etc/licence.lic'
          lmgrd_path: '/opt/intel/bin/lmgrd'

• Manage Flexlm to provide Matlab Licence and vendor daemon binaries :

- hosts: matlab-lm
  roles:
    - role: flexlm
      flexlm_licences:
        - name: matlab
          description: 'flexlm Licence Manager for Matlab'
          bin_path: '/opt/matlab/bin'
          bin_src: '{{ inventory_dir + "/../resources/service/matlab-lm/bin/" }}'
          lic_path: '/opt/matlab/etc/licence.lic'
          lic_src: '{{ inventory_dir + "/../resources/host/matlab-lm.domain/etc/licence.lic" }}'
          lmgrd_path: '/opt/matlab/bin/lmgrd'

Known Issues

• If a value of one licence change in flexlm_licences var, all services will be restarted.

Changelog

• 1.0.1: Update all module to full path. Matthieu Isoard
• 1.0.0: Initial support. Matthieu Isoard