Pointing products to a remote license manager

If you run a licensed product and License Manager on different hosts, you must point the speech product to the License Manager location. (Exception: you do not need to point Management Station to a remote License Manager because this is taken care of during installation.) For a list of licensed products, see Setting up licenses.

Note: Ignore this procedure for licensed speech products on the same host as a License Manager.

To point licensed products to a License Manager host:

  1. Set the parameters for the speech products to point to a License Manager host. For product specifics, see below.
    The value format is port@host, where host is the hostname or IP address. The default is 27000@localhost.
  2. Start, or restart, the services to apply the parameter changes.
    1. Krypton: license : path

      • In Management Station, set on the Settings tab for each instance of the Krypton recognition engine.

      • If not using Management Station, set in each instance of the Krypton configuration file. For example, $NUANCE_DATA_DIR/system/config/User-krypton01.yaml
    2. Nuance Text Processing Engine: licensePath
      • In Management Station, set on the Settings tab for each instance of the Nuance Text Processing Engine.
      • If not using Management Station, set in each instance of the NTpE configuration file. For example, $NUANCE_DATA_DIR/system/config/User-ntpe01.yaml
    3. Natural Language Processing service: licenseManager.address
      • In Management Station, set on the Settings tab for each instance of the Nuance Text Processing Engine.
      • If not using Management Station, set in each instance of the NLP service configuration file. For example, $NUANCE_DATA_DIR/system/config/User-nlps01.properties

        Note: The NLP service checks out licenses on behalf of the core engines, including for the Natural Language Engine.

    4. Natural Language Engine: license.path

Set LicenseServerList in the mstation-license.properties configuration file. The file location is:

  • Windows: %MSTATION_HOME%\userdata\config
  • Linux: $MSTATION_HOME/userdata/config

Set SWILicenseServerList in the SpeechWorks.cfg configuration file. The file location is:

  • Windows: %SWISRSDK%\config\SpeechWorks.cfg
  • Linux: install_path/config/SpeechWorks.cfg

Note: If you are not using Management Station, you must also set this path for the watcher service in the Recognizer configuration file. Otherwise, the services for your speech products might not start.

If you purchased a Speech Server encryption license, set server.licenseManager.Address in the $NSSSVRSDK/config/NSSserver.cfg configuration file.

For Vocalizer, set license_servers

  1. If using Management Station, set on the Settings tab for each instance of the Nuance vocalizer service.
  2. If not using Management Station, set in the $VOCALIZER_SDK/config/baseline.xml configuration file.

For Vocalizer Studio, set LicenseServerList in the configuration file located at: vstudio_install\configuration\vstudio.cfg.

Set SWILicenseServerList in the SpeechWorks.cfg configuration file. The file location is:

  • Windows: %NUANCE%\config\SpeechWorks.cfg
  • Linux: $NUANCE/config/SpeechWorks.cfg

Value for a quorum license configuration:

  • Windows: 28000@LicenseManager1;28000@LicenseManager2;28000@LicenseManager3
  • Linux: 28000@LicenseManager1:28000@LicenseManager2:28000@LicenseManager3