General Licensing: Speeding up the launch times of Autodesk products

How do you speed up the launch times of the Autodesk software on the network?

1. You need to edit the license file on the server so that is is using 2 port numbers:

a.  2080 : adskflex
b.  27000:  lmgrd

Please check out this post for the syntax of the license file with the edited port numbers and an explanation of what port numbers are used here:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Installation-Licensing/Port-number-used-for-network-licensing-of-Autodesk-products/m-p/2807352#M25493

By default, licensing can potentially use 11 ports (2080 and 27000-27009), by using only 2 ports, the Autodesk software will potentially launch faster.

2.  On the client computers, you will need to add the following environment variables:

Variable:  ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE
Value:  27000@your-server-name-or-server-name-ip-address

Variable: FLEXLM_TIMEOUT
Value: 10000000 

Reference: http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=TS1057817

The reason that you are saving time is because licensing services are only going to search for the daemons on 2 ports instead of 11 ports (2080 + 27000-27009).  If you have multple license servers, the number of ports it is scanning can increase dramatically.