MATLAB Installation Guide for Unix    

Running MATLAB with Other FLEXlm Applications

If you have another application that uses the FLEXlm license manager, you can share a single license manager, or run separate license managers on the same or different hosts.

Sharing a License Server

To share a license manager with another application, combine the DAEMON and INCREMENT lines from both License Files into a single License File, keeping a single SERVER line that identifies the license server host. If the other applications are using a different version of the FLEXlm software than the MathWorks products, run the newest version of the license manager.

If you share a license manager and you centralize the license information in a License File other than $MATLAB/etc/license.dat, you must indicate to MATLAB where the file is located. You can define the file location to MATLAB by performing one of the following:

Running Separate License Managers

To run separate license managers, use separate License Files. If you are running them on the same host, be sure to use a different TCP port number on the SERVER line in each License File.


  Running Multiple Versions of MATLAB Determining Your Host ID