Flexlm
- Overview
- Role Variables
- Example Playbook
- Configuration
- Known Issues
- Development
- License
- Author Information
Overview
A role to manage Flexlm daemon and licence/binaries files.
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__lmgrd_version : Version of
lmgrd
to use [default :11.18.1
]. - flexlm__lmgrd_source : Source of the
lmgrd
bin to send [default :usr/local/bin/lmgrd
]. - flexlm__lmgrd_path : The place to store
lmgrd
bin [default :/usr/local/bin/lmgrd
]. - flexlm__lmutil_source : Source of the
lmutil
bin to send [default :usr/local/bin/lmutil
]. - flexlm__lmutil_path : The place to store
lmutil
bin [default :/usr/local/bin/lmutil
]. - 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 Fortran (without binaries) :
- hosts: intel-lm
roles:
- role: ipr-cnrs.flexlm
flexlm__licences:
- name: intel
description: 'flexlm Licence Manager for Matlab'
bin_path: '/opt/intel/bin'
lic_path: '/opt/matlab/etc/licence.lic' # need to be a file
- Manage Flexlm to provide Matlab Licence and vendor daemon binaries :
- hosts: matlab-lm
roles:
- role: ipr-cnrs.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' # need to be a file
lic_src: '{{ inventory_dir + "/../resources/host/matlab-lm.domain/etc/licence.lic" }}' # need to be a file
Configuration
This role will :
- Copy the
lmgrd
andlmutil
binaries to the client. - Create a specific user to launch daemon.
- Set up a systemd service (flexlm-item.name). Thanks to Kalebo instructions.
- 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.
- Create a symlinks to ld-linux librairies.
The lmgrd
and lmutil
binaries comes from Mathworks in version flexlm__lmgrd_version.
Known Issues
- If a value of one licence change in flexlm__licences var, all services will be restarted.
Development
This source code comes from our Gogs instance and the Github repo exist just to be able to send the role to Ansible Galaxy…
But feel free to send issue/PR anywhere :)
Thanks to this hook, Github automatically got updates from our Gogs instance :)
License
Author Information
Jérémy Gardais
- Source : on IPR's Gogs
- IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes)