Ansys Common Licensing eliminates the need to reserve licenses ahead of the update. The license sharing based on HPC context automatically starts when design points are updated using Remote Solve Manager. In some situations, you may need to have your design point RSM job fail on startup if certain set of licenses are not available. To do this, you can specify licenses that are checked out at the start of RSM job execution, so that the job fails early if there are insufficient licenses. If more licenses are required during the update than were checked out upfront, they are checked out automatically based on HPC context.
To use upfront license checkouts:
To view the Design Point Update Process settings, right-click the Parameter Set bar and select .
If the Properties pane is already visible, click the Parameter Set bar to refresh the Properties pane with the design point settings.
In the Properties pane, from the Update Option drop-down list, select .
Click .
In the Select Licenses dialog box:
From the Available Licenses list, select one or more licenses.
You can select multiple licenses at one time by holding down the Ctrl key as you click each license.
The Available Licenses list displays licenses currently available on the license server connected to the Workbench session, which may or may not be the license server connected to the RSM cluster.
Click .
The licenses you have selected appear in the Selected Licenses for Upfront Checkout pane.
To see which licenses were used for this Workbench project in previous updates, switch to the Used Licenses tab.
You can add licenses to the selection from this list as well.
To save the selection and close the dialog, click .
The selected licenses are not checked out at this time. License checkout occurs only when you begin the update.
You may need to include a Geometry license as part of upfront-checkout licenses even when the Geometry component is not parameterized and is up-to-date, if either of the following situations is true:
If the project contains CAD geometry or any other geometry that is not managed by the Geometry component but rather by a downstream Model or Mesh component, and the geometry is parameterized using the Model or Mesh component.
If an Engineering Data component is parameterized and shares a model or mesh downstream with a non-parameterized Geometry component.