


{"id":250278,"date":"2023-02-16T20:14:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T20:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/license-issue-certificates\/"},"modified":"2023-02-16T20:14:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T20:14:53","slug":"license-issue-certificates","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/license-issue-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"License issue &#8211; certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have some users with computers in our campus AD and some users with computers not in our campus AD.&nbsp; Those in the AD environment are able to successfully get a license when launching ANSYS workbench.&nbsp; Those not in our AD environment are unable to get a license.&nbsp; From both scenarios, the following results in &#8220;True&#8221; for both the Flex and Vendor Daemon assigned ports (indicating both network and local firewalls allows traffic)<br \/>PS&gt; test-netconnection -ComputerName &lt;server&gt; -Port &lt;port&gt;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If I join a computer with ANSYS installed to our AD, it is then able to get a license.&nbsp; I believe this to be suggestive that the certificates need to be updated. Section 5.4.2 of the Ansys_License_Management_Guide.pdf (Version 2023\/R1) identifies how to create a self-signed cert. &nbsp;Is there a way to instead give the application a certificate signed by a different certification authority?&nbsp; if so what needs to be included and how to apply on the server?<\/p>\n<p>Note: I have an alias for DNS redirection to the server. i.e. ANSYS.it.university.edu is the alias for Server123.ad.university.edu (actual).&nbsp; I use the Alias in port@host system variables to reduce client side attention when servers are rehosted.&nbsp; The license file has the actual server name specified.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide,&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-250278","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["51799","197","283331"],"_bbp_author_ip":["96.7.74.191"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["1375"],"_bbp_likes_count":["1"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["250278"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_engagement":["197","51799"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["6"],"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":["1"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["251193"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["251193"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2023-02-23 11:47:08"]},"test":"matthew-bukunlv-edu"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/250278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/250278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}