General Licensing: ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE environment variable location in Windows registry

If you have been installing and uninstalling multiple versions of Autodesk software, you may notice that the ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE will have multple entries pointing to multple servers and potentially contain multiple locations of the licpath.lic file. 

http://upandready.typepad.com/up_and_ready/2011/06/general-licensing-what-license-file-or-license-server-is-a-client-computer-looking-at.html

http://upandready.typepad.com/up_and_ready/2011/06/general-licensing-adskflex_license_file-versus-licpathlic.html

NOTE:  If you have setup this environment variable in System Properties via this TS:

http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=TS1065268

The Value data for the Variable should be all the same in all the locations noted below and will have entries in ControlSet & CurrentControlSet:

Variable:  ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE
Example Value:  @server1;@server2;@server3

or

Variable:  ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE
Example Value:  @server1; C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2012

or

Variable:  ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE
Example Value:  @server1

The registry location for the Value data  for Windows XP that needs to be changed is below:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Flexlm License Manager\ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Session Manager\Environment\ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment\ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE

The registry location for the Value data for Windows Vista/7 that needs to be changed is below:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Flexlm License Manager \ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Session Manager\Environment\ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control\Session Manager\Environment\ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment\ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE

*HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-?\Software\FLEXlm License Manager\ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE

 *NOTE:  You may need to search for this environment variable in that last key.

Comments

[Andrew]

Well, this looks like my kind of topic.

I wanted to shamelessly let you all know about my AU Virtual class - 'The Parametric Advantage'. It is all about autodesk deployments, related customization tricks and even covers these environment variables.

This goes live on the 29th. Since it's AU Virtual, anyone and everyone can check it out.
http://au.autodesk.com/?nd=event_class&session_id=9658&jid=1745244

[David Lau]

Thanks! I may check it out.