Configuring Your FLEXnet License to Work with a Windows Firewall

If you run a FLEXnet license server that is behind a Windows Firewall, you need to edit your client license file for the SIMULIA Execution Engine to ensure that it can connect to the license server it is started.

  1. Verify that the Windows Firewall has been updated so that the necessary license ports are open for the license server. For more information, contact your local system administrator.
  2. Navigate to the following directory: 

    <SEE_install_dir>/config/

  3. Open the license.dat file in the text editor of your choice.
  4. Add the port number opened on the license server computer’s Windows Firewall to the SERVER line in your license file. For example, if port 1700 was opened on the Windows Firewall, your license SERVER line would appear similar to the example shown below:

    SERVER seemachine ANY 1700

    For more information on what port numbers were opened on your license server’s Windows Firewall, contact your local system administrator.

  5. Save and close your license file.