Format of the daemon options file

You can customize your ModelSim licensing with the daemon options file. This options file allows you to reserve licenses for specified users or groups of users, to determine which users have access to ModelSim software, to set software time-outs, and to log activity to an optional report writer.

RESERVE

Ensures that ModelSim will always be available to one or more users on one or more host computers.

INCLUDE

Allows you to specify a list of users who are allowed access to the ModelSim software.

EXCLUDE

Allows you to disallow access to ModelSim for certain users.

GROUP

Allows you to define a group of users for use in the other commands.

NOLOG

Causes messages of the specified type to be filtered out of the daemon's log output.

To use the daemon options capability, you must create a daemon options file and list its pathname as the fourth field on the line that begins with DAEMON modeltech.

A daemon options file consists of lines in the following format:

RESERVE number feature {USER | HOST | DISPLAY | GROUP} name
INCLUDE feature {USER | HOST | DISPLAY | GROUP} name
EXCLUDE feature {USER | HOST | DISPLAY | GROUP} name
GROUP name <list_of_users>
NOLOG {IN | OUT | DENIED | QUEUED}
REPORTLOG file 

Lines beginning with the number character (#) are treated as comments. If the filename in the REPORTLOG line starts with a plus (+) character, the old report logfile will be opened for appending.

For example, the following options file would reserve one copy of the feature vsim for the user walter, three copies for the user john, one copy for anyone on a computer with the hostname of bob, and would cause QUEUED messages to be omitted from the logfile. The user rita would not be allowed to use the vsim feature.

RESERVE 1 vsim USER walter
RESERVE 3 vsim USER john
RESERVE 1 vsim HOST bob
EXCLUDE vsim USER rita
NOLOG QUEUED 

If this data were in the file named:

/usr/local/options 

modify the license file DAEMON line as follows:

DAEMON modeltech /<install_dir>/<platform>/modeltech \
		/usr/local/options 

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