Ansys 12.x-14.0 license manager on openSUSE

update Ansys license manager installation program regularly fails to produce a running configuration on openSUSE servers. Key to success full installation was to run separately flexlm and interconnect. These scripts should work in 14.5 too, as there the installation script fails as well. The modified startup script are shown here:

The ansys license manager is run under user "licence", its installed in the directory /home/licence/ansys_inc/.

In

/home/licence/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/init_ansysli :

change

ANSYSLIC_DIR="/home/licence/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing"

The init_ansli script is going to be linked to /etc/init.d
The start script will keep the old log files in the time stamped copies.

/home/licence/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/start_ansysli :

#!/bin/sh
#
LMGRD="${ANSYSLIC_DIR}/lin32/lmgrd"

# Self-locate
selfdir="`dirname $0`"

# Does licsh.ini exist?
if test -r "${selfdir}/lic_admin/licsh.ini"; then
  . ${selfdir}/lic_admin/licsh.ini
  if test -x "${ANSYSLIC_DIR}/${ANSYSLIC_SYSDIR}/ansysli_server"; then
    su licence -c "date >> ${ANSYSLIC_DIR}/ansyslic.start.log"
    su licence -c "${ANSYSLIC_DIR}/${ANSYSLIC_SYSDIR}/ansysli_server < /dev/null"
    mv -f ${ANSYSLIC_DIR}/license.log ${ANSYSLIC_DIR}/license.log-`date +"%F+%T"`
    su licence -c "${LMGRD} -c ${ANSYSLIC_DIR}/license.dat -l ${ANSYSLIC_DIR}/license.log >>${ANSYSLIC_DIR}/ansyslic.start.log  2>&1"
  else
    echo "ERROR: '${ANSYSLIC_DIR}/${ANSYSLIC_SYSDIR}/ansysli_server' cannot be executed."
    echo "Cannot start the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager."
    exit 1
  fi
else
  echo "ERROR: '${selfdir}/lic_admin/licsh.ini' is not readable."
  echo "Cannot start the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager."
  exit 1
fi

exit 0

The shutdown script is almost untouched. Just stop explicitly the flexlm.

/home/licence/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/stop_ansysli :

#!/bin/sh
#
LMGRD="${ANSYSLIC_DIR}/lin32/lmutil"

# Self-locate
selfdir="`dirname $0`"

# Does licsh.ini exist?
if test -r "${selfdir}/lic_admin/licsh.ini"; then
  . ${selfdir}/lic_admin/licsh.ini
  if test -x "${ANSYSLIC_DIR}/${ANSYSLIC_SYSDIR}/ansysli_server"; then
    exec ${ANSYSLIC_DIR}/${ANSYSLIC_SYSDIR}/ansysli_server -k stop
    exec ${LMGRD} lmdown -c ${ANSYSLIC_DIR}/license.dat -force >>${ANSYSLIC_DIR}/ansyslic.start.log  2>&1
  else
    echo "ERROR: '${ANSYSLIC_DIR}/${ANSYSLIC_SYSDIR}/ansysli_server' cannot be executed."
    echo "Cannot stop the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager."
    exit 1
  fi
else
  echo "ERROR: '${selfdir}/lic_admin/licsh.ini' is not readable."
  echo "Cannot stop the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager."
  exit 1
fi
exit 0

Update

It is said that the "officially supported platforms for ANSYS are SLES and RHEL", silently CentOS too. On a recent CentOS installation the installation script "INSTALL.LM" works correctly and out-of-box script init_ansli starts and stops  the license manager as expected.