When you start TotalView, it must be able to find the license.dat file. If TotalView and the active license manager are installed on the same host and you place the license.dat file in its default location in the flexlm‑<version> directory, you can skip to the next section, Starting the License Manager Manually.

If you are installing TotalView and the license server on different machines, you can place a license.dat file within each installation. Do this by copying the license.client file from the license server to flexlm-<version>/license.dat in each installation. If you are using an existing license server, this is all that you have to do.

The format for the license.client file is: