Flexlm

1. Overview
2. Role Variables
3. Example Playbook
4. Configuration
5. Development
6. License
7. Author Information

Overview

A role to manage Flexlm daemon.

Role Variables

• flexlm__packages_state : State of package(s) [default : present].
• flexlm__packages_manage : If package(s) should be managed with this role [default : True].
• flexlm__dependent_packages : List of additional packages requested as 'flexlm' dependencies [default : lsb-core, unzip]
• flexlm__lmgrd_version : Version of lmgrd to use [default : 11.14.0.1].
• flexlm__lmgrd_source : Source of the lmgrd bin to send [default : usr/local/bin/lmgrd].
• flexlm__lmgrd_path : The place to store lmgrd bin [default : /usr/local/bin/lmgrd].
• flexlm__lmutil_source : Source of the lmutil bin to send [default : usr/local/bin/lmutil].
• flexlm__lmutil_path : The place to store lmutil bin [default : /usr/local/bin/lmutil].
• flexlm__user_name : Username used to launch lmgrd [default : flexlm].

Example Playbook

• Manage Flexlm with defaults vars :

- hosts: serverXYZ
  roles:
    - role: ipr-cnrs.flexlm

Configuration

This role will :

• Copy the lmgrd and lmutil binaries to the node.
• Create a specific user to launch daemon.

The lmgrd and lmutil binaries comes from Mathworks in version flexlm__lmgrd_version.

Development

This source code comes from our Gogs instance and the Github repo exist just to be able to send the role to Ansible Galaxy…

But feel free to send issue/PR anywhere :)

Thanks to this hook, Github automatically got updates from our Gogs instance :)

License

WTFPL

Author Information

Jérémy Gardais

• Source : on IPR's Gogs
• IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes)