MathWorks Installation Help

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Install Products on a Network License
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• Makes a copy of the network license file named 
license.dat
, and puts this copy in the 
/etc
folder of the MATLAB installation folder.
• Adds a 
SERVER
line and a 
DAEMON
line to the file. The 
SERVER
line identifies the server host and
port number. The 
DAEMON
line identifies the name of the network license manager daemon.
• Stores the processed license file in 
matlabroot
/etc
, where 
matlabroot
is the MATLAB
installation folder.
• For Network Named User licenses, when the installer creates an options file during installation, it
also adds the 
Options=
syntax to the 
DAEMON
line in your license file. This syntax specifies the
path name of the options file.
For example, if your server is named 
thunderball
and its IP address is 144.212.111.103, the
SERVER
and 
DAEMON
lines in your license file would look like this:
SERVER thunderball INTERNET=144.212.111.103 27000
DAEMON MLM "C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2022b\etc\win64\MLM.exe" \
options="C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2022b\etc\mlm.opt"
On the client computer, the installer:
• Creates a copy of the license file you specify named 
network.lic
, and puts the file in the
\licenses
folder in the MATLAB client installation folder.
• Deletes all the 
INCREMENT
lines and the 
DAEMON
line in the license file, leaving the 
SERVER
line. It
also adds the statement 
USE_SERVER
to the file. This line points the client to the network license
file on the server, which contains all the passcodes for the products.
MATLAB License Search Path
MATLAB reads the license file at startup to check for product licensing. MATLAB searches for the
license file in the following locations, in the specified order:
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The license file specified on MATLAB startup command line using the -c option. The -c option
overrides the entire search order and uses only what was specified on the command line. This is
the 
only
path MATLAB searches.