Using your organization's Reprise server

If you want to use your organization's Reprise license server rather than the license server packaged with Validate, you must configure Validate and the Reprise license server to work together, and you must put your Validate license file in the right place.

The Validate ISV daemon creates a lock file named 'prqa' that is the same name as the ISV daemon. To avoid conflicts with the daemon or with the lock file that the ISV daemon creates, never place the ISV daemon in or under a folder named 'prqa' when you set up the Validate license service on your organization's license server. Ensure that no files or folders named 'validate' exist that could cause a conflict.

Note:  It is easy to accidentally corrupt a license file. Before you begin, make a copy of your license file as a backup and put it in a safe place. Leave the original Validate license either in the directory <projects_root>/licenses or in the appropriate directory of your organization's license server.

Important: You cannot change the physical host name of the Validate License Server in the license file. If you need to move the License Server to another host, you must contact Perforce for a new license file. However, you can edit the host name in the license file if the host name of the machine hosting the license manager has changed, or if you want to change how the host name is defined (for example, from a simple to a fully qualified host name).

To set up Validate to use your organization's Reprise server:

  1. Copy the Validate licensing daemon to the directory where the Reprise ISV daemons reside on the machine hosting your Reprise server. The Validate daemon is located as follows:

    Unix:<Validate_install>/3rdparty/bin/prqa

    Windows:<Validate_install>\3rdparty\bin\prqa.exe

  2. Copy the license file (with the extension .lic) that you received from Perforce Customer Support to the appropriate location in the Reprise directory structure.
  3. If necessary, change the default port number (27000) of the Reprise server in the license file:
    1. Open the license file in a text editor.
    2. Edit the port number at the end of the first line of the license file.

      Here is a sample first line from a license file: SERVER server01 00g006084466 27000

      In this example, you would change 27000 to the port you want to use.

    3. Save and close the file.
  4. Use the Reprise rlmreread utility to force the license manager daemon (rlm) to read the Validate license file and start the Validate ISV daemon (validate). See the Reprise documentation for details on using rlmreread.
  5. Configure the host names and ports for all of the Validate Servers.
  6. Start the Validate Server.

Note:  To change the ISV daemon port, see Changing the vendor or ISV daemon port in your license file.