1. Download an Admin bundle from our website
2. Extract the contents of the downloaded admin bundle.
a. The downloaded admin bundle for Linux will come in the format: [RLM admin bundle name].tar.gz
b. Extracting would look something like this:
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3. Creating the RLM Service on Linux Using systemd
a. Change Directories to /etc/systemd/system
b. Create the file rlm.service and include the following:
[Unit] After=network.target Description=Reprise License Management Server [Service] # Optional environment variables Environment=RLM_LICENSE=/path/to/license/files Type=simple User=<user> WorkingDirectory=<Directory where RLM is located> ExecStart=<Path to RLM [arg1 arg2 … argN]> Restart=always [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
c. Ensure that Environment, User, WorkingDirectory, and ExexStart are updated.
* Any flags you’d like to add to RLM’s startup can be added to the ExecStart= section. A full list of flags can be found in our documentation.
4. Run this command to enable the service at boot (may need to be done as sudo)
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5. RLM should now be configured to run as a service automatically. You can verify this by running the following command on Linux:
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