Many companies use Flexera Software for licensing including Autodesk. You can actually configure more than one service in lmtools. Please check out this Technical Solution for details:
http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=TS13541551
This same process can be applied to other companies' vendor daemons as well.
If you have more than one service in lmtools, you should check on LMTOOLS ignores license file path environment variables. The reason is that you may get an error message when you a Perform Status Enquiry from the Server Status tab.
The error is typically caused by the license settings used from the other vendor. i.e. Company X.
Another tip is to enable Advanced Settings in the Start/Stop/Reread tab and check on Restrict lmdown to work only from node where lmgrd is running. This prevents an advanced user from remotely stopping the license server.
The check mark will only show up once when you initially check it on. i.e. If you open it again, the check box may not be checked anymore. To confirm that it has been set, you need to view the log file.
NOTE: I have personally stopped the license server by accident in our entire building when I first started here!
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