Solid Edge How to manually start/stop/restart FlexLM License Manager?

When stopping or restarting the FlexLM License Manager, the normal way to do that would be to use the Lmtools.exe and to click on the desired button on the "Start/Stop/Reread" tab:

However, occasionally these commands will not work properly and there will be the need to do this manually.  How would this be done?

Here is what you need to do:

1) In LMTOOLS find out the name of the Service of the FlexLM Server.

2) Start a Windows Power Shell "As administrator", which can be reached by clicking on the Command with right mouse button and there selecting the option

"Run as Administrator":

3) After that please enter the command:

 net stop "Name of the FlexLm process"   <-  stops the FlexLM Process  or

 net start "Name of the FlexLm process"   <- starts the FlexLM Process  or

 net stop "Name of the FlexLm process" && - net start "Name of the FlexLm process"

The first command stops the Process, the second starts the Process, the third will restart the Process.

If you copy the commands into a Text file and give the Text File a name with the suffix ".bat", you can simply click on the bat file and via the Right Mouse Button again use the option 

Run as Administrator and you are done.

If you have further inquiries about floating Licensing please refer to the FAQs collection link below:

Solid Edge Floating License FAQs Collection