Is it possible to disable a feature to match available licenses?

chart-magnum commented 2 years ago

Describe the bug While executing docker run, a license server replies with an error:

ANSYS LICENSE MANAGER ERROR:
Failover feature 'Ansys Mechanical Enterprise' is not available.
Request name ansys does not exist in the licensing pool.
No socket connection to license server manager.
Feature:       ansys
License path:  2325@lic-ansys.ethz.ch:
FlexNet Licensing error:-7,10015
 *** ERROR - ANSYS license not available.

Is it possible to disable that feature?

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Open terminal

Execute command

docker run -e ANSYSLMD_LICENSE_FILE="2325@lic-ansys.ethz.ch" -p 50052:50052 docker.pkg.github.com/pyansys/pymapdl/mapdl:v21.1.0 -smp -aa_t_i

Expected behavior A MAPDL gRPC server is started.

Screenshots

System Information:

OS: Windows 10
Ansys version docker v21.1.0

akaszynski commented 2 years ago

First off, it's great that you're able to get docker on Windows to run MAPDL. Let's figure out the academic licensing issue.

I've noted a few issues:

Port 2325 no longer required for 2021 R1 applications. It looks like you're using a legacy license server line from ansyslmd.ini
The academic license is now set by the license server and not by the application. Hence, including -aa_t_i will still fetch the ansys product license, but it's expected that the license server will have special keywords. For example:

INCREMENT ansys ansyslmd 2021.1231 31-dec-2021 500 6D133224352D \
VENDOR_STRING="customer:00000054 tp:a" \
SUPERSEDE ISSUED=27-aug-2020 START=27-aug-2020 SIGN2="00BF F28C "

Where tp:a has been added to VENDOR_STRING

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I'd make sure that your license server has been upgraded to at least 2021R1 and then switch to port 1055. Both the 2021R1 and 2021R2 docker images will support a 2021R1 license server. The license file used should be the academic license issued by Ansys. Please ask the Account Manager for an updated license file.
Consider reading the (internal) documentation hosed by Ansys at 2021R1-Licensing-Updates-Academic.pdf
Also, consider posting on Ansys Learning Forum. They may be able to address any additional licensing issues there as well. It's a good place to post issues related with licensing, and there are a few good answers there as well that you might find helpful

chart-magnum commented 2 years ago

Thank you for prompt reply! I tried to run the docker with port 1055 to no avail. I'll check with IT support about 2021R1 license. On my machine I have ANSYS2020R2. I'd like to try a docker with the license I have already. Do you provide a docker image for that version?

chart-magnum commented 2 years ago

Indeed, it was a matter of getting the license server for ANSYS2021R1. Thank you for your help!

akaszynski commented 2 years ago

Indeed, it was a matter of getting the license server for ANSYS2021R1. Thank you for your help!

Great! Thanks for posting that the solution worked here.

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Is it possible to disable a feature to match available licenses? #658

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