MATLAB Installation Guide for Windows

Installing the License Manager as a Service

The installer gives you the option of installing the license manager as a service. (See Step 7: Install the License Manager as a Service.) Installing the license manager as a service provides for automatic startup at system boot time and centralizes administration of the license manager through the Windows Services control panel.

If you choose not to install the license manager as a service during installation, you can do it later using the install.exe program, available in the $MATLAB\flexlm directory. However, if you do not install the license manager as a service you will have to start the license manager manually each time you want to run MATLAB. See Starting and Stopping the License Manager for more information.

Using install.exe

To use install.exe to install the license manager as a service, follow this procedure:

1. Open a DOS Command Prompt window.
2. Move to the $MATLAB\flexlm directory, where $MATLAB represents your MATLAB installation directory.
3. Enter the command

• install -c $MATLAB\flexlm\license.dat -e 
  $MATLAB\flexlm\lmgrd.exe
  

1. where the -c flag specifies name of your processed license file and the -e flag specifies the name of the license manager daemon.

You can also use install.exe to perform other license manager administration tasks, such as:

• Specifying the name of the service as it will appear in the Windows Services control panel. By default, the license manager service is called the MATLAB License Server in the Windows Services control panel. To specify a different name, use install.exe with the -n flag
• Removing the license manager service, using the -r flag

Note    You must specify the -e flag with all other install.exe options.

To get more information about the syntax of the install.exe program, enter install at the command prompt.

Starting and Stopping the License Manager

Running Multiple Versions of MATLAB