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[RLM] Communications error with license server (­17)

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These warnings mean that Arnold can connect to the RLM license server, but Arnold cannot connect to the solidangle ISV server:

00:00:12 14MB WARNING | [rlm] * Communications error with license server (­17)
00:00:12 14MB WARNING | [rlm] * Connection refused at server (­111)

Usually the problem is that the solidangle ISV server is not running.

You can check the status of the solidangle ISV server with RLM Web Admin. I like the get the RLM diagnostics (Diagnostics > Run Diagnostics) from RLM Web Admin and review that.

In rare cases, the problem is something else, such as:

  • Some sort of network connection problem. For example, I recently had a case where we would get these warnings when we used the IP address of the license server in solidangle_LICENSE. But as soon as we switched to using the hostname, everything worked.
  • Another RLM instance is running and listening to port 5053, and that instance doesn’t have a solidangle ISV running. I heard about this second-hand, from a customer; I didn’t see it with my own eyes and I don’t know how it’s possible. You can have multiple RLM instances running, but each instance has to have a different port otherwise you get ” “Port 5053 in use, waiting…” messages and the second RLM won’t start.

[RLM] The case of the false positive for virtual machine detection

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When RLM detects that it’s running on a virtual machine, you’ll see “This server does not run on virtual machines, exiting” and “solidangle initialization error: 5, not restarting” in the RLM debug log:

06/22 11:45 (solidangle) RLM License Server Version 10.1BL2 for ISV "solidangle"
06/22 11:45 (solidangle) Settings from RLM Version 10.1BL2 for ISV "solidangle"
...
06/22 11:45 (solidangle) This server does not run on virtual machines, exiting
06/22 11:45 (rlm) Reread request (for everyone) by webuser@example-pc
06/22 11:45 (rlm) Restarting solidangle on port 55555
06/22 11:45 (rlm) New thread created to watch ISV solidangle
06/22 11:45 (rlm) Starting any new ISV servers...
06/22 11:45 (rlm) 
06/22 11:45 (rlm) solidangle initialization error: 5, not restarting
06/22 11:45 (rlm) 
06/22 11:45 (rlm) The ISV server is running on the wrong host.
06/22 11:45 (rlm) 
06/22 11:45 (rlm) This can happen if:
06/22 11:45 (rlm)  The hostid of this machine doesn't match any license file
06/22 11:45 (rlm)  - or -
06/22 11:45 (rlm)  You are attempting to run the server on a virtual machine

In this case, the machine wasn’t virtual. And both RLM and the solidangle ISV were the same version (10.1BL2), so it wasn’t a case of a newer solidangle.set with an older RLM, which gives you the same log output.

The problem was the older RLM version. The older RLM 10.1BL2 would sometimes issue a false positive for virtual machine detection. The solution is to upgrade to the newer RLM 11.2BL2, which you can get by downloading Arnold 4.2.4.0 or later.