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Cannot connect to license server system. (-15,570:150 - Operation now in progress)

Troubleshooting


Problem

This technote describes a possible cause of an error message that can be genereted after importing a license key for Rational products and after running lmstat.

Symptom

You get the following error:
lmstat - Copyright (c) 1989-2007 Macrovision Europe Ltd. and/or Macrovision

Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Flexible License Manager status on Tue 12/1/2009 16:00

Error getting status: Cannot connect to license server system. (-15,570:150

"Operation now in progress")

Cause

This could happen if you are have generated a license key for a UNIX operating system using the disk_serial_num format which is valid only for Windows Operating System as shown below:

Resolving The Problem

For a Linux or UNIX o/s, use the Ethernet Address for the HostID.

[{"Product":{"code":"SSTMW6","label":"Rational License Key Server"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU053","label":"Cloud & Data Platform"},"Component":"FLEXlm","Platform":[{"code":"PF002","label":"AIX"},{"code":"PF010","label":"HP-UX"},{"code":"PF016","label":"Linux"},{"code":"PF027","label":"Solaris"},{"code":"PF033","label":"Windows"}],"Version":"2003a.06.15;7.0;7.0.1","Edition":"All Editions","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB45","label":"Automation"}}]

Document Information

Modified date:
27 December 2019

UID

swg21413391