1.1. Configuring Elastic Licensing in Windows

The following sections describe how to configure elastic licensing in Windows using the functionality available through the Ansys Licensing Settings utility.

1.1.1. Accessing the Ansys Licensing Settings Utility

To open the Ansys Licensing Settings utility, click Start, Ansys 24.2 and then Ansys Licensing Settings 2024 R2.

1.1.2. Changing the Elastic Licensing PIN

If license administrator changes the PIN of the Cloud License Server, client-side users on Windows should perform the following steps:

  1. Have your elastic licensing administrator provide you with a .json file containing your Cloud License Server ID and your Cloud Server License PIN.

  2. Open the Ansys Licensing Settings utility.

  3. Click the Elastic Licensing option.

  4. Click Enable Elastic Licensing.

  5. Click Import ID and Pin, browse to the directory containing json file supplied by your elastic licensing administrator, select the file and click Open.

  6. An informational message is displayed “You are uploading a file that will change your CLSID and CLS PIN. Do you want to continue?”. Click OK.

    Your ansyslmd.ini file is updated, and the ID and PIN are displayed in the Ansys Licensing Settings utility. You can locate your ansyslmd.ini file in the following directory:

    <Ansys Licensing Installation Drive>\Program Files\Ansys Inc\Shared Files\Licensing\ansyslmd.ini

For more information on the changing the Cloud License Server PIN, see the Ansys Licensing Portal Administrator's Guide.

1.1.3. Disabling Elastic Licensing

When Elastic Licensing is enabled, the Ansys applications will consume the available local licenses (if a local License Manager is configured) before consuming Ansys Elastic Units from the Cloud License Server. If you disable Elastic Licensing, your Ansys applications will continue to use licenses from your local license manager but will not attempt to consume elastic licenses from the Cloud License Server.

  1. Open the Ansys Licensing Settings utility.

  2. Click the Elastic Licensing option.

  3. Click Disable Elastic Licensing.

1.1.4. Gathering Diagnostics Data

This option gathers elastic licensing-related data about your system and places in a single compressed file. This information is useful when requesting support for elastic licensing. To gather the data:

  1. Open the Ansys Licensing Settings utility.

  2. Click the Gather Diagnostics option.

  3. Click Generate.

    The diagnostic data is displayed in the Console area and a compressed file containing this data is saved to:

    <Product Installation Drive>\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Local\Temp\


    Note:  The AppData directory is typically hidden.


    The compressed file containing this data is named AnsysDiagnostics, year, month, day, time.zip.