Altair License Manager [top] 📍

Without a properly configured License Manager, your Altair HyperWorks session will crash immediately upon launching or run in "viewer only" mode.

Altair supports . In your license file:

Clients must be told where the license server resides. Options: altair license manager

) and handles feature requests from client machines [11, 14]. Altair One Portal:

Altair is aggressively moving to . Instead of managing 50 different FEATURE lines, you have a single pool of tokens. The Altair License Manager handles the conversion transparently. Without a properly configured License Manager, your Altair

The Altair License Management System is comprised of three primary pillars that ensure seamless software delivery and compliance:

SERVER hostname MAC_ADDRESS TCP_PORT VENDOR altair_lic_daemon /opt/Altair_License_Manager/altair_lic_daemon FEATURE optistruct altair_lic_daemon 2025.0 31-dec-2024 20 SIGN="XXXX XXXX" FEATURE radioss altair_lic_daemon 2025.0 31-dec-2024 10 SIGN="XXXX XXXX" Options: ) and handles feature requests from client

This is the master process that runs on the server machine. It handles the initial connection requests from clients and routes traffic to the appropriate vendor daemon. It manages the TCP/IP ports (defaulting to 27800 for Altair) and writes the initial debug logs.

Furthermore, now supports Cloud Bursting . If your local license manager runs out of tokens, you can configure it to automatically check out temporary licenses from Altair's cloud (pay-as-you-go). This requires setting up ALTAIR_CLOUD_CREDENTIALS alongside the local license manager.