To comply with data privacy requirements (such as the General Data Protection Regulation), you can perform the following steps to ensure that personally identifiable information (username and hostname) is not returned during client calls for license or queue status queries. Examples: “lmutil lmstat -a”.
Enable Privacy Mode in the Ansys Licensing Interconnect
To enable privacy mode in the Licensing Interconnect, you can perform either step “a” or “b” below:
Enable the -private Licensing Interconnect Command Option
The -private command option dictates whether the Licensing Interconnect should run in private mode where requests for license usage from client systems do not return user or host information.
For more information, see Licensing Interconnect Command Options.
Enable the ANSYSLI_PRIVATE ansyslmd.ini Keyword
The ANSYSLI_PRIVATE feature dictates whether the license server should run in private mode where requests for license usage from client systems do not return user or host information.
For more information, see ansyslmd.ini Keywords.
Enable Privacy Mode in FlexNet
Configuring port forwarding blocks lmutil commands to the Ansys license server that require lmgrd processing. For example, lmstat will not work when port forwarding is enabled.
To do this you will need to set a static port for the ansyslmd daemon.
You can set a static port for the ansyslmd daemon by adding PORT=#### to the end of the vendor line in your license file and restarting the license manager.
Example:
VENDOR ansyslmd PORT=1056You must configure port forwarding through IPtables (as root) or the firewall on your license server to forward all inbound traffic on the lmgrd port (default is 1055) to the vendor port (example 1056).
Note: The license server will still be able to run queries of the license status, reserved status, or queued status; all usage data is displayed from the license server.