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# MayaMan Licensing Setup

MayaMan uses the Rerpise licensing system (http://www.reprisesoftware.com) for its licensing and copy protection. Reprise offers great flexibility but at the cost of a bit of complexity at setup time. This page is to help you get going if you're not familiar with Reprise licensing.

## Obtaining a MayaMan License

You will not initially have a license to use MayaMan. You must request a license from the Animal Logic Web Site.

## Other Animal Logic Products

If you already have Animal Logic products installed and running somewhere in your network then it's best to just add the MayaMan licenses to that server. To do this provide us with the lmhostid for the server machine and we'll generate new lines to be added into your existing AnimalL.dat file. After adding the new lines perform an lmreread operation on the AnimalL.dat file.

## Animal Logic Reprise Installer

When you have a MayaMan license for your computer, you should download and run the Animal Logic Reprise Installer. This is available from ftp://ftp.al.com.au/pub/reprise. The installer will set up all the necessary files, and give you a set of shortcuts in your Start menu for administrating your Animal Logic licenses.

Afte running the installer and copying in your license file, you should be able to start the license server and use MayaMan. If not, you should be able to find help from the rest of this page.

The location where the licensing tools are installed to is referred to as AL_REPRISE for the remainder of this document.

### Quick Overview of How Reprise works

Reprise requires three components in order for MayaMan to check out a license. Firstly, you need the license file (issued by Animal Logic) which specifies such things as what software you are licenses to use, how many copies of the software can be used concurrently, and when the license is due to expire.

Secondly, you need rlm.exe (rlm on linux) which is Reprise's own program. This is provided with the MayaMan distribution and can be found in the AL_REPRISE directory.

Thirdly, you need the animal.exe daemon which is also provided in the AL_REPRISE directory.

### Determining your rlmhostid

The rlmhosthid is a number that uniquely identifies the machine that will serve the license. Open a cmd prompt (or a shell on linux) and execute the 'rlmhostid' program that can be found in the AL_REPRISE directory. This will generate a string of hexadecimal digits which looks like 00104b138ddd. This number is you rlmhostid.

### Required Steps to Have Your License Available

1. You must have a license file, which has the correct name of your server, its lmhostid, and the location of the animal daemon
2. You must then run rlm -c PATH_TO_YOUR_LICENSE_FILE', e.g. 'c:\animallogic\license\rlm -c c:\animallogic\license\AnimalL.dat'. If all goes well you can now run MayaMan whilst rlm is running.

### Running the Daemon

You have two choices of how you can run the license daemon. Firstly, you can run it in a shell (as above) whenever you need it. This is a bit of a pain. A better thing to do is to install the daemon as an NT service, so that it starts automatically whenever you boot your machine.

If you select the "Reprise License Daemon" when installing MayaMan it will automatically install the license daemon, but it won't work until you edit the license file (AL_REPRISE/AnimalL.dat) and stop and restart the license server.

After you have installed MayaMan (selecting the Reprise License Daemon" option) you will find some handy shortcuts under Start->Programs->MayaMan->Reprise Daemon for installing, uninstalling, stopping, starting and rereading a new license file for the daemon.

You can also add, remove and modify your Reprise license daemons running as services through the Reprise Control Panel, found with your other Control Panel applets under Start->Settings->Control Panel.

### Still stuck?

Ask your systems administrators for help, or contact support@al.com.au.

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