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  3. Borrowed license stuck ‘Display License Status’ was showing license was borrowed. But the command “lmutil lmborrow -status” was showing that no licenses are borrowed.

Borrowed license stuck ‘Display License Status’ was showing license was borrowed. But the command “lmutil lmborrow -status” was showing that no licenses are borrowed.

Tagged: 2020 R1, Installation/Licensing/Systems, License Borrow, licensing, Workbench Platform - SYS
    • January 25, 2023 at 7:28 am
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      1. Stop ANSYS License Manager (Either in Services or the License Management center) 2. Create an options file (“C:Program FilesANSYS IncShared FilesLicensinglicense_filesansyslmd.opt”) 3. add EXCLUDEALL for the user ids showing the license borrowed in license status. – This step will prevent the license usage by those user ids. 4. Start ANSYS License Manager 5. All license borrow entries are gone 6. Wait for 3 minutes. 7. Stop the License Manager again. 8. Remove the option file. 9. Start the ANSYS License Manager again.

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