Starting from 2023, Siemens changes their EDA license managing utility.
Previous MGLS (Mentor Graphic License Server) doesn’t support EDA softwares of 2023 or later. Calibre 2023 may be still in the supporting list, but Tenssent 2023 isn’t for sure. Instead, SLS (Siemens License Server) is the successor of MGLS.
The SLS utility doesn’t need to be patched while EDA software itself should be patched and still be valid by OCAD 1patch v0.3.
The license file generated by MentorKG.exe is still available for SLS. All you need to do is to modify the DAEMON (2nd line) by replacing ‘mgcld’ with ‘saltd’.
1 | DAEMON saltd /PATH/TO/SLS/UTILITY/saltd |
End user should set the environment variable SALT_LICENSE_SERVER, for example setenv SALT_LICENSE_SERVER 27001@licsrv. Some of old Mentor tools still check license within the old variable MGLS_LICENSE_FILE, so we need to set both variables with same value.
1 | setenv SALT_LICENSE_SERVER 27001@licsrv |
Now enjoy the new Siemens/Mentor softwares of 2023 or later.
PS. how to check the availability of SLS floating license?
1 | % tessent -shell |