MATLAB Installation Guide for PC    

Setting Up a Concurrent Installation

This section summarizes the steps required to set up a MATLAB concurrent installation in your network. You must perform these steps in the order specified:

  1. Have your concurrent PLP handy and put a copy of your License File in a temporary directory on the system on which you intend to run your license manager. You provided The MathWorks with the Host ID of this system, referred to in this section as your license server, when you made your purchase. See Concurrent Licensing for more information about License Files.
  2. Install the license manager (FLEXlm) on your license server. You must perform this installation first because the installer performs some processing to the License File that is required for subsequent MATLAB client installations. You only need to install the license manager once in a concurrent installation.

    If your license server is a PC, follow the instructions in "Concurrent Installation Procedure" on page 2-7, making sure to select the license manager in the Product List dialog box. Windows 95 or Windows 98 systems are not recommended for use as license servers.

    If your license server is a UNIX system, follow the instructions in the Installation Guide for UNIX. A UNIX license server can serve PC clients.

  1. Install MATLAB. The number of MATLAB installations you must perform depends on the configuration of your concurrent installation.
    1. In a local client access configuration, you install MATLAB on each client system. When users on client systems start MATLAB, it contacts the license manager over the network to check out a license key.
    2. In a remote client access configuration, you only install MATLAB once, on a central file server. Users on client systems access MATLAB over the network. In remote client installations, it can be helpful to give clients a script that sets up a short cut to the network copy of MATLAB and specifies a default startup directory for MATLAB.

 Concurrent License Installation Procedure Concurrent Licensing