ANSYS, Inc. Installation Guide For Linux
ANSYS, Inc. Installation Guide For Linux
The information in this guide applies to all ANSYS, Inc. products released on or after this
date, until superseded by a newer version of this guide. This guide replaces individual
product installation guides from previous releases.
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Disclaimer Notice
For U.S. Government users, except as specifically granted by the ANSYS, Inc. software li-
cense agreement, the use, duplication, or disclosure by the United States Government
is subject to restrictions stated in the ANSYS, Inc. software license agreement and FAR
12.212 (for non-DOD licenses).
Third-Party Software
See the legal information in the product help files for the complete Legal Notice for
ANSYS proprietary software and third-party software. If you are unable to access the
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Chapter 1: Installation Prerequisites for Linux
This document describes the steps necessary to correctly install and configure
all ANSYS, Inc. products on Linux platforms for Release 15.0. These products in-
clude:
ANSYS Autodyn
ANSYS LS-DYNA
ANSYS TurboGrid
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ACIS
CATIA, Version 4
NX
Parasolid
Notes Not all products may be available on all Linux platforms. Please see the
remainder of this document for detailed information on which products are
available on which platforms.
At Release 15.0, ANSYS BladeGen, Vista CCD, Vista CPD, Vista RTD, and Vista AFD
are not supported on Linux platforms.
ANSYS Workbench and ANSYS EKM Desktop are installed by default as product
components to most ANSYS, Inc. products.ANSYS Workbench is not installed as
part of the products under ANSYS Additional Tools, nor with the CFD-Post only
option. ANSYS Workbench includes the following applications:
DesignModeler
Design Exploration
Meshing
TGrid
FE Modeler
EKM Desktop
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System Prerequisites
Important Notice
If you wish to run multiple releases of ANSYS, Inc. software, you MUST install
them chronologically (i.e., Release 14.5 followed by Release 15.0). If you install
an earlier release after installing Release 15.0, you will encounter licensing issues
that may prevent you from running any products/releases. If you need to install
an earlier release after you have already installed Release 15.0, you MUST uninstall
Release 15.0, then re-install the releases in order.
The Windows and Linux installation guides have been rewritten and reorganized
to enhance ease of use.
Installs and Uninstalls can now be performed from a single unified installation in-
terface.
An installation launcher is now available for the Linux platform. From this launcher,
you can run the ANSYS product, License Manager and EKM installs.
For Windows systems, ANSYS, Inc. Product installation must be performed by users
with administrative privileges.
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Note
Supported Platforms for High Performance Computing Please see the dis-
cussions on Configuring Distributed ANSYS and Configuring ANSYS CFX Parallel
later in this guide for detailed information on supported platforms for distributed
computing.
A = Mechanical APDL
W = ANSYS Workbench
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Disk Space and Memory Requirements
I = ANSYS ICEM CFD standalone (some CAD systems may require the
integrated ANSYS Workbench Reader)
Linux x64
CATIA 4.2.4 A 2, I
Parasolid 26.0 A, W, I
ACIS 24 1 A, W, I
NX 7.5 W, I
NX 8.0 W, I
NX 8.5 W, I
STEP AP203, AP214 W, I
IGES A 3, W, I 4
GEMS I
Rhinoceros I
1. For ANSYS ICEM CFD standalone, ACIS 18.0.1 is the supported version for all
platforms.
2. Red Hat requires the installation of i686 (32-bit) glibc & libstdc++ libraries.
3. MAPDL supports 5.1 by default, but 5.2 is also supported if the IOPTN command
is used.
Product Disk
Space
Mechanical APDL 10.0 GB
ANSYS Autodyn 7.1 GB
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Product Disk
Space
ANSYS LS-DYNA 7.6 GB
ANSYS CFX 9.6 GB
ANSYS TurboGrid 8.1 GB
ANSYS Fluent 9.5 GB
Polyflow 9.2 GB
ANSYS ICEM CFD 2.8 GB
ANSYS Icepak 5.5 GB
CFD Post only 8.0 GB
ANSYS Geometry Inter- 302 MB
faces
The machine(s) being used for the simulation must contain at least one supported
nVIDIA GPU card or one Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor. The following cards are sup-
ported:
For nVIDIA GPU cards, the driver version must be 319.23 or newer.
For Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, the driver version must be MPSS Gold Update 3
or newer.
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Additional Hardware and Software Requirements
Red Hat Linux 5.x is not supported for Xeon Phi coprocessors.
Note
Mechanical APDL assumes that the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor driver
is installed in /opt/intel/mic/coi. If the installation is located in a dif-
ferent folder, set the ANS_MIC_LIB_PATH environment variable to
the path where the Xeon Phi driver is installed (for example,
/mypath/mic/coi).
Graphics card compatible with the supported operating systems, capable of sup-
porting 1024x768 High Color (16-bit) and a 17-inch monitor compatible with this
type of graphics card; ANSYS CFX products and ANSYS TurboGrid require 24-bit
color and that antialiasing on your graphics card be disabled. Refer to your operating
system's documentation for specific instructions.
If you are using Exceed to run ANSYS Workbench products, Exceed 3D is required.
Exceed 3D 2008 Service Pack 9 or higher is recommended.
For Fluent, CFX-Pre, and CFD-Post, a three-button mouse is required to access all
available functionality.
PDF reader software is required to read the installation guides and other user
documentation.
Fluent graphics are not officially supported when running under Exceed.
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ANSYS, Inc. products may have softlinks that require 777 permissions. In addition,
the following third-party products are known to contain softlinks that require
777 permissions:
MainWin
CPython
Mono
Python
Perl
GCC
Qt
Qwt
HPMPI
PCMPI
IMPI
MPICH
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Third-Party Software and Other Security Considerations
OPENMPI
INTELMPI
PCMPI
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Chapter 2: Platform Details
Linux
For ALL 64-bit Linux platforms, OpenMotif, and Mesa libraries should be installed.
These libraries are typically installed during a normal Linux installation. You will
also need the xpdf package to view the online help.
You can find the necessary OpenMotif libraries for your platform at http://
www.motifzone.net.
SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 requires SP1 or SP2. After installing the SP1/SP2 updates,
you must also install OpenMotif and the prerequisites from the SLES11 SDK DVD,
as well as the OpenMotif22 packages (recommended packages are openmotif22-
libs-2.2.4-138.18.1.x86_64.rpm and openmotif22-libs-32bit-2.2.4-
138.18.1.x86_64.rpm from SLED11 SP1 x86_64 distribution. You may need to use
"rpm -iv -force" to install these).
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 base install requires
patch kernel-2.6.32-71.14.1.el6.x86_64.rpm and kernel-devel-2.6.32-
71.14.1.el6.x86_64.rpm.
libXp.x86_64
xorg-x11-fonts-cyrillic.noarch
xterm.x86_64
openmotif.x86_64
compat-libstdc++-33.x86_64
libstdc++.x86_64
libstdc++.i686
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gcc-c++.x86_64
compat-libstdc++-33.i686
libstdc++-devel.x86_64
libstdc++-devel.i686
compat-gcc-34.x86_64
gtk2.i686
libXxf86vm.i686
libSM.i686
libXt.i686
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi.noarch
Red Hat no longer includes the 32-bit libraries in the base configuration so you
must install those separately.
Additional requirements for Intel, AMD Opteron, and EM64T Linux systems are
detailed below.
ANSYS, Inc. License Manager Linux x64 systems running the ANSYS, Inc. Li-
cense Manager require the Linux Standard Base (LSB) 3.0 package.
glibc
libstdc++
ANSYS Workbench If you are running ANSYS Workbench using the KDE
desktop environment, set the focus stealing prevention level to "None" to prevent
the project save dialog boxes from appearing behind the application window:
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4. Click Apply.
If you are running on KDE 4 or if the kcontrol command does not exist, use
System Settings to set the focus stealing prevention setting level to "None":
4. Click Apply.
This modification takes effect immediately, but is reset at the next reboot. To
avoid resetting the limit when rebooting, add the above command to one of
your systems startup scripts by copying the command into a file called mod_sem
and then setting up the following links to execute the file each time you restart
your system:
cp mod_sem /etc/init.d
ln -s /etc/init.d/mod_sem /etc/rc3.d/S61mod_sem
ln -s /etc/init.d/mod_sem /etc/rc5.d/S61mod_sem
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Then, use the following procedure to set mwcontrol for your locale:
1. cd to <wb_install directory>/v150/aisol
5. Change the language in the dropdown to match the language you want to use.
7. Click Apply to accept the changes, and then click OK to dismiss the Change
Regional Settings notification.
Using Fluent with Infiniband On some operating systems, the default amount
of physical memory that can be pinned/locked by a user application is set to a
low value and must be explicitly increased. A value recommended by Intel is
90% of the physical memory. Therefore, for a system with 8GB of memory, the
following should be added to the /etc/security/limits.conf file:
* hard memlock unlimited
* soft memlock unlimited
The need for increasing the limits may be indicated by the following error mes-
sage with Platform MPI:
fluent_mpi.15.0.0: Rank 0:1: MPI_Init: ibv_create_cq() failed
fluent_mpi.15.0.0: Rank 0:1: MPI_Init: Can't initialize RDMA device
fluent_mpi.15.0.0: Rank 0:1: MPI_Init: MPI BUG: Cannot initialize RDMA protocol
libibverbs: Warning: RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is 32768 bytes.
This will severely limit memory registrations
When Fluent is launched by a scheduler (like PBSPro, SGE, etc.), these limits may
be reset by the scheduler. Users may check running the limit command within
and without the scheduler to compare. Any differences, indicate the issue above.
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If you use SGE, you must change the startup script /etc/init.d/sgeexecd
to include the ulimit -l unlimited command as shown in the following
example:
-- BEGIN --
if [ "$startup" = true ]; then
# execution daemon is started on this host!
echo " starting sge_execd"
exec 1>/dev/null 2>&1
ulimit -l unlimited
$bin_dir/sge_execd
else
-- END --
Once this modification is in place, restart SGE to set the correct memory limits
on the SGE daemon and any invoked processes.
Using the Fluent Launcher On Linux systems, you must have the following
package (as appropriate for your platform) installed in order to use the Fluent
launcher:
Using ANSCUSTOM If you use ANSCUSTOM to link your own version of ANSYS
Release 15.0 on a SUSE SLES10.x box, you may see two unsatisfied externals that
are system, not ANSYS files, due to the linker looking for some system files in a
Red Hat directory on a SUSE box.
The revision numbers shown in the examples (2.95.3 and 3.4.6) may be different
on your system. The linker will specify where it is trying to find the crtbegin.o
and crtend.o files; that location will be the last part of the above commands.
You can use the Linux locate command to find the existing crtbegin.o and
crtend.o files; that location would be the first part of the above commands.
System Libraries On 64-bit Linux linx64 systems, the ANSYS Release 15.0 ex-
ecutable is looking for system libraries that do not have revision numbers appen-
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ded to the end of their file names. On some SUSE systems, the graphics libraries
all have revision numbers appended to the end of the library filenames. In these
cases, ANSYS quits because the loader cannot find all of the libraries that it is
looking for. When running ANSYS Release 15.0, the loader will inform you that
it is unable to locate a specific library (for example, libXm.so). Using the Linux
locate command, find the library (libXm.so in this example) on your system
and add the appropriate symbolic link as seen below.
The revision numbers appended to the filenames on the left may be different
on your system.
Intel Linux
ANSYS was built and tested on Red Hat using the compilers as noted in
Table 2.1: Compiler Requirements (p. 17). The ANSYS solver is built on Red Hat En-
terprise Linux AS release 4 (Update 5).
For ANSYS Workbench and ANSYS Autodyn, you may need to increase the
stack size; we recommend setting to 1 GB. Add the following to your config-
uration file:
Other shells may have different settings; please refer to your shell document-
ation for specific details.
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Select Your Installation
AMD Opteron
ANSYS was tested on a generic Opterontm system running Red Hat Enterprise
Linux AS release 5.3.
If you are running on Intel's Xeon EM64T system, we recommend that you
turn CPU hyperthreading off (default is on). A system administrator needs
to reboot the system and enter the BIOS to turn the hyperthreading option
off.
* Compilers are required only if you will be using User Programmable Features
(UPF), User Defined Functions (UDF), or other customization options.
Installing the ANSYS Software for a Stand-alone Linux System (p. 19)
Installing the ANSYS Products and the License Server on Different Linux Machines (p. 31)
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Chapter 3: Installing the ANSYS Software for a
Stand-alone Linux System
This section explains how to install ANSYS, Inc. products, including ANSYS client
licensing, as well as the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager.
The default installation expects you to be logged in as root. You can install as
non-root; however, if you are not logged in as root, you will not be able to set
the /ansys_inc symbolic link and may potentially experience permission
problems. The inability to set the /ansys_inc symbolic link will in no way in-
hibit your ability to run ANSYS, Inc. products; it is provided as a convenience.
If you do not use the /ansys_inc symbolic link, you must install all releases
into a common directory to ensure license manager compatibility and availability
among releases and products.
If you did not use the /ansys_inc symbolic link, you must replace all references
to /ansys_inc/v150 or <install_dir> with the actual installation path
you used.
An account on the ANSYS Customer Portal. If you do not have an account, you
may register at https://support.ansys.com/portal/site/AnsysCustomerPortal to receive
your own account.
Your license file from ANSYS, Inc., saved to a temporary directory. For more inform-
ation, see Registering the License Server (p. 29).
Open port numbers for both the FLEXlm and ANSYS Licensing Interconnect. Defaults
are 1055 and 2325, respectively. To verify that these port numbers are available,
open a command line and enter the following command:
netstat -a -t
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You will see a list of active ports. If 1055 and 2325 are listed, they are already
in use and cannot be used for ANSYS, Inc. licensing. In this case, you will need
to specify different port numbers where indicated later in this installation.
You should also verify that you are running on a supported platform. ANSYS,
Inc. products support 64-bit Linux systems running Red Hat 5 and 6 and SUSE
Linux Enterprise 10 and 11 SP1.
Verify that you have sufficient disk space to download, uncompress, and install
the products you will be installing. Approximate disk space requirements for
each product are shown in the ANSYS, Inc. Linux Installation Guide.
If you have any problems with or questions about the installation process please
log a Service Request on the ANSYS Customer Portal. A Systems Support Specialist
will respond to assist you.
Product Installation with Client Licensing: This set of instructions describes the
product installation, including the client licensing portion.
License Manager Installation: This set of instructions describes the license manager
installation.
Post Installation Procedures for All Products: This is a set of instructions that de-
scribes any configuration steps that may be required for the various products.
Both the product and the license manager will be installed on the same machine.
You must complete both the client licensing portion and the license manager install-
ation in order to run ANSYS, Inc. products.
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Product Download Instructions
you run the get_ansys_platform150 script on each machine first. This script
will output the correct platform name for each machine on which it is run.
We strongly recommend that you review the Read Download Instructions and
Product Information file included on the download site for the most current
download instructions.
Step 1 of the ANSYS Download Center Select Full Products page is displayed.
2. Select all products you wish to download by clicking the + to the right of each
product group title and selecting the appropriate check boxes. Alternatively, you
can click the Select All or Select Only Licensed Products options from the top
of the page.
Each product you select is displayed on the right side of the page under
Selected Downloads.
Step 2 of the ANSYS Download Center Select Full Products page displays
all selected products by operating system.
4. Click the link(s) for the appropriate operating system and download each package
to a new temporary folder.
5. After the downloads have completed, uncompress each package using standard
uncompression utilities for your specific platform. We strongly recommend that
you extract the files into new, temporary directories.
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If the target machine does not have a DVD reader, first follow the steps for locally-
mounted DVD, and then follow the procedure below for remotely-mounted
DVDs:
or
/dvdrom_dir (ro)
Check the manual page for 'exports' for the correct syntax, as different Linux
versions can have different syntax.
3. Log on to the machine where you wish to install ANSYS, Inc. products and issue
the following commands:
mkdir dvdrom_dir2
mount -t nfs Host:cdrom_dir dvdrom_dir2
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where Host is the hostname of the machine where the DVD device is loc-
ated.
From the options along the left side of the launcher you can install ANSYS
products, ANSYS EKM Server, and the ANSYS License Manager. You can ac-
cess the installation guide for the ANSYS EKM Server from the Downloads
page on the Customer Portal.
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The ANSYS, Inc. Quick Start Installation Guide, ANSYS, Inc. Quick Start Licens-
ing Guide, System Requirements Guide and complete Installation Help Guide
can be accessed through the options located along the bottom of the
launcher.
Select the language you want to use from the drop-down menu in the upper
right corner. English is the default.
4. The license agreement appears. Read the agreement, and if you agree to the
terms and conditions, select I Agree. Click Next.
5. The directory where you wish to install the ANSYS, Inc. products is shown in the
Install Directory field. You can install the products into any directory you wish,
but you must have write permissions to the directory you choose. The default
is /ansys_inc. We recommend using the default directory.
We strongly recommend that you also set the symbolic link /ansys_inc
to the directory where the ANSYS, Inc. product is installed. The symbolic
link option is available only if you are installing as root and is set by default.
If you choose not to specify the symbolic link or are installing as a non-root
user, substitute the directory path where you installed the product for all
subsequent occurrences of /ansys_inc in this guide.
If you do not use the /ansys_inc symbolic link, you must install all re-
leases into a common directory to ensure license manager compatibility
and availability among releases and products.
If you have already installed the ANSYS Workbench Framework for Ansoft,
you must install any additional ANSYS, Inc. products into the same directory.
On Linux, you can choose Disable RSS to disable automatic internet feeds
to ANSYS, Inc. products.
Click Next.
6. All products available in the installation package(s) you downloaded are listed.
You can select or deselect any combination of products. ANSYS Workbench is
automatically installed with most ANSYS, Inc. products; there is no individual
product selection for ANSYS Workbench.
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Product Installation
If you select NX or ICEM CFD NX, you will have additional installation steps.
This installation assumes you are not installing these CAD packages. Deselect
these options before continuing.
You will also see an estimate of the disk space required to install all of the
selected components, and the disk space you have available. The actual
amount of disk space required may be less, but if you choose to run the
installation with insufficient disk space available, we strongly recommend
that you review the log files at the end of the installation to verify that all
products were installed correctly. Installation log files are written to the in-
stallation directory.
7. The dates on the licensing files being installed are compared to any that may
already exist on your machine. Click Next.
8. A summary screen appears listing your installation selections. Please review this
list carefully to verify that it is correct. When you are sure all selections are correct,
click Next to begin the installation.
9. The installation progress screen displays a status bar towards the bottom of the
installation window. This status bar tracks the percentage or packages that have
been installed on your computer.. Depending on the number of products you
have selected, the installation time required could be lengthy. You will not be
able to interrupt the installation process. Please be patient while the installation
completes.
Note
10. When the product installation has completed, click Next to begin the client li-
censing configuration. A Licensing Client Configuration window appears.
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You will need to specify the port numbers to be used by the ANSYS licensing.
Defaults are provided and will work in most cases. You may need to check
with your IT department to confirm that the default port numbers are valid
or to get different port numbers if necessary.
Then specify the hostname. For this installation, you will be configuring
your machine to act as a license server. Type in your machine name and
click OK.
11. When the client licensing installation has completed, click Exit on the Licensing
Client Configuration window.
12. The product installation window reappears with a message noting that the in-
stallation is complete. Click Next.
13. On the next screen, you can complete the survey or you can click Finish imme-
diately to skip the survey and complete the product installation.
1. Navigate to the directory where you extracted the files. Run ./INSTALL.LM.
If you downloaded the license manager installation package, this file will reside
in the directory where you untarred the downloaded files. If you are running
from a DVD, this file will reside in the top level of the DVD.
2. You may see a warning stating that if the license manager is currently running,
it will be shut down. This installation assumes that you have not previously in-
stalled the products or the licensing on this machine, and you are not pointing
to a network license server machine. You may safely ignore this message and
click OK.
4. The license agreement appears. Read the agreement, and if you agree to the
terms and conditions, select I Agree. Click Next.
5. The directory where you wish to install the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager is shown
in the Install Directory field. You can install the products into any directory you
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wish, but you must have write permissions to the directory you choose. The de-
fault is /ansys_inc. We recommend using the default directory. You must use
the same directory where the products were installed.
Note
6. The ANSYS, Inc. License Manager is selected as the only product available to in-
stall. As with the product installation, the required and available disk space
numbers are shown. Click Next.
7. The licensing file dates are compared to ensure that the most recent version of
the licensing files are being used. This installation assumes that this is the first
time you are installing ANSYS, Inc. products on this machine; therefore, no licens-
ing files will already exist and the files included with the installation package
will be used. Click Next.
8. A summary screen appears that lists the products to be installed. Because this
is a license manager installation, the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager is the only
product listed.
The ANSYS, Inc. License Manager is now being installed and configured on
your system. The installation window displays the individual actions as they
occur. When the installation is complete, the window displays any installation
errors or warnings. Review this information carefully.
9. When the license manager installation completes, click Next to begin the license
manager configuration.
10. The License Server Installation Configuration window appears, and several
configuration steps will be completed. When the ANSYS, Inc. License Wizard
appears, it will prompt you for the necessary information at each step. During
this process, the license manager will be shut down if it is running. Be aware
that this can impact any users currently running using the license manager.
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Verify that the Type of License Server selected at the bottom of the screen is
Run the ANSYS Licensing Interconnect with FLEXlm (default). Click Continue.
11. The next step is to install a license file. Click Continue. You will then need to
specify the location of the license file sent to you by ANSYS, Inc. Use the Browse
button on the file locater dialog box to navigate to the location of the license
file. If you do not have a license file, please refer to Registering the License Serv-
er (p. 29)
12. Click Continue to configure the local machine as the license server (the default
action).
15. Click Exit to close the Licensing Server Installation Configuration screen.
18. Open a terminal window and navigate to your ANSYS installation. The following
table lists the default paths to start the ANSYS products you have installed.
Application Locations
Application How to Launch
CFD Post /ansys_inc/v150/cfdpost
CFX /ansys_inc/v150/CFX/bin/<productname>
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1. Use the Register License Server Machine Information option of the ANSLIC_AD-
MIN utility to register license server information on each license server. To run
the ANSLIC_ADMIN utility on a Linux platform, type:
/<install_dir>/shared_files/licensing/lic_admin/anslic_admin
2. Select OK and Create File to save this information to a file named licserv-
er.info by default.
3. Return the resulting licserver.info file to your ANSYS, Inc. sales represent-
ative. ANSYS, Inc. or your sales representative will then supply you with your license
keys.
4. Use the Run the License Wizard option of the ANSLIC_ADMIN utility to enter
your license key and start the license manager.
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Chapter 4: Installing the ANSYS Products and the
License Server on Different Linux Machines
This section explains how to install ANSYS, Inc. products, including ANSYS client
licensing, as well as the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager.
The default installation expects you to be logged in as root. You can install as
non-root; however, if you are not logged in as root, you will not be able to set
the /ansys_inc symbolic link and may potentially experience permission
problems. The inability to set the /ansys_inc symbolic link will in no way in-
hibit your ability to run ANSYS, Inc. products; it is provided as a convenience.
If you do not use the /ansys_inc symbolic link, you must install all releases
into a common directory to ensure license manager compatibility and availability
among releases and products.
If you did not use the /ansys_inc symbolic link, you must replace all references
to /ansys_inc/v150 or <install_dir> with the actual installation path
you used.
An account on the ANSYS Customer Portal. If you do not have an account, you
may register at https://support.ansys.com/portal/site/AnsysCustomerPortal to receive
your own account.
Your license file from ANSYS, Inc., saved to a temporary directory. For more inform-
ation, see Registering the License Server (p. 42).
Open port numbers for both the FLEXlm and ANSYS Licensing Interconnect. Defaults
are 1055 and 2325, respectively. To verify that these port numbers are available,
open a command line and enter the following command:
netstat -a -t
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You will see a list of active ports. If 1055 and 2325 are listed, they are already
in use and cannot be used for ANSYS, Inc. licensing. In this case, you will need
to specify different port numbers where indicated later in this installation.
You should also verify that you are running on a supported platform. ANSYS,
Inc. products support 64-bit Linux systems running Red Hat 5 and 6 and SUSE
Linux Enterprise 10 and 11 SP1. For detailed information on which products are
supported on which platforms, please see the ANSYS, Inc. Linux Installation Guide,
which is available for download when you download ANSYS, Inc. products or as
a printed manual if you receive installation media.
Verify that you have sufficient disk space to download, uncompress, and install
the products you will be installing. Approximate disk space requirements for
each product are shown in the ANSYS, Inc. Linux Installation Guide.
If you have any problems with or questions about the installation process, please
log a Service Request on the ANSYS Customer Portal. A Systems Support Specialist
will respond to assist you.
Product Installation with Client Licensing: This set of instructions describes the
product installation, including the client licensing portion.
License Manager Installation: This set of instructions describes the license manager
installation.
Post Installation Procedures for All Products: This is a set of instructions that de-
scribes any configuration steps that may be required for the various products.
Both the product and the license manager will be installed on the same machine.
You must complete both the client licensing portion and the license manager install-
ation in order to run ANSYS, Inc. products.
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Product Download Instructions
We strongly recommend that you review the Read Download Instructions and
Product Information file included on the download site for the most current
download instructions.
Step 1 of the ANSYS Download Center Select Full Products page is displayed.
2. Select all products you wish to download by clicking the + to the right of each
product group title and selecting the appropriate check boxes. Alternatively, you
can click the Select All or Select Only Licensed Products options from the top
of the page.
Each product you select is displayed on the right side of the page under
Selected Downloads.
Step 2 of the ANSYS Download Center Select Full Products page displays
all selected products by operating system.
4. Click the link(s) for the appropriate operating system and download each package
to a new temporary folder.
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5. After the downloads have completed, uncompress each package using standard
uncompression utilities for your specific platform. We strongly recommend that
you extract the files into new, temporary directories.
If the target machine does not have a DVD reader, first follow the steps for locally-
mounted DVD, and then follow the procedure below for remotely-mounted
DVDs:
or
/dvdrom_dir (ro)
Check the manual page for 'exports' for the correct syntax, as different Linux
versions can have different syntax.
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3. Log on to the machine where you wish to install ANSYS, Inc. products and issue
the following commands:
mkdir dvdrom_dir2
mount -t nfs Host:cdrom_dir dvdrom_dir2
where Host is the hostname of the machine where the DVD device is loc-
ated.
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From the options along the left side of the launcher you can install ANSYS
products, ANSYS EKM Server, and the ANSYS License Manager. You can ac-
cess the installation guide for the ANSYS EKM Server from the Downloads
page on the Customer Portal.
The ANSYS, Inc. Quick Start Installation Guide, ANSYS, Inc. Quick Start Licens-
ing Guide, System Requirements Guide and complete Installation Help Guide
can be accessed through the options located along the bottom of the
launcher.
Select the language you want to use from the drop-down menu in the upper
right corner. English is the default.
4. The license agreement appears. Read the agreement, and if you agree to the
terms and conditions, select I Agree. Click Next.
When installing more than one platform or if you are installing a platform
other than your current machine type, you will need to select the platform(s)
on which you want to install the ANSYS, Inc. products. The platform on
which you launched the installation will be selected by default and is shown
at the bottom of the window. You can choose as many platforms as you
wish; however, you must run the platform configuration procedure (see Run
the Product Configuration Utility in Network Installation and Product Configur-
ation (p. 42)) for each platform other than your current machine type. See
Network Installation and Product Configuration (p. 42) for specific instructions
on how to configure a shared installation directory across multiple machines
using a common network file system.
5. The directory where you wish to install the ANSYS, Inc. products is shown in the
Install Directory field. You can install the products into any directory you wish,
but you must have write permissions to the directory you choose. The default
is /ansys_inc. We recommend using the default directory.
We strongly recommend that you also set the symbolic link /ansys_inc
to the directory where the ANSYS, Inc. product is installed. The symbolic
link option is available only if you are installing as root and is set by default.
If you choose not to specify the symbolic link or are installing as a non-root
user, substitute the directory path where you installed the product for all
subsequent occurrences of /ansys_inc in this guide.
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If you do not use the /ansys_inc symbolic link, you must install all re-
leases into a common directory to ensure license manager compatibility
and availability among releases and products.
If you have already installed the ANSYS Workbench Framework for Ansoft,
you must install any additional ANSYS, Inc. products into the same directory.
On Linux, you can choose Disable RSS to disable automatic internet feeds
to ANSYS, Inc. products.
Click Next.
6. All products available in the installation package(s) you downloaded are listed.
You can select or deselect any combination of products. ANSYS Workbench is
automatically installed with most ANSYS, Inc. products; there is no individual
product selection for ANSYS Workbench.
If you select NX or ICEM CFD NX, you will have additional installation steps.
This installation assumes you are not installing these CAD packages. Deselect
these options before continuing.
You will also see an estimate of the disk space required to install all of the
selected components, and the disk space you have available. The actual
amount of disk space required may be less, but if you choose to run the
installation with insufficient disk space available, we strongly recommend
that you review the log files at the end of the installation to verify that all
products were installed correctly. Installation log files are written to the in-
stallation directory.
7. The dates on the licensing files being installed are compared to any that may
already exist on your machine. Click Next.
8. A summary screen appears listing your installation selections. Please review this
list carefully to verify that it is correct. When you are sure all selections are correct,
click Next to begin the installation.
9. The installation progress screen displays a status bar towards the bottom of the
installation window. This status bar tracks the percentage or packages that have
been installed on your computer.. Depending on the number of products you
have selected, the installation time required could be lengthy. You will not be
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able to interrupt the installation process. Please be patient while the installation
completes.
Note
10. When the product installation has completed, click Next to begin the client li-
censing configuration. A Licensing Client Configuration window appears.
You will need to specify the port numbers to be used by the ANSYS licensing.
Defaults are provided and will work in most cases. You may need to check
with your IT department to confirm that the default port numbers are valid
or to get different port numbers if necessary.
Then specify the hostname. For this installation, you will be configuring
your machine to act as a license server. Type in your machine name and
click OK.
11. When the client licensing installation has completed, click Exit on the Licensing
Client Configuration window.
12. The product installation window reappears with a message noting that the in-
stallation is complete. Click Next.
13. On the next screen, you can complete the survey or you can click Finish imme-
diately to skip the survey and complete the product installation.
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If you have installed ANSYS, Inc. products on a file server, follow the instruc-
tions under Network Installation and Product Configuration (p. 42).
Caution
1. Navigate to the directory where you extracted the files. Run ./INSTALL.LM.
If you downloaded the license manager installation package, this file will reside
in the directory where you untarred the downloaded files. If you are running
from a DVD, this file will reside in the top level of the DVD.
2. You may see a warning stating that if the license manager is currently running,
it will be shut down. If you have not previously installed the products or the li-
censing on this machine, and you are not pointing to a network license server
machine, you may safely ignore this message and click OK.
4. The license agreement appears. Read the agreement, and if you agree to the
terms and conditions, select I Agree. Click Next.
5. The directory where you wish to install the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager is shown
in the Install Directory field. You can install the products into any directory you
wish, but you must have write permissions to the directory you choose. The de-
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fault is /ansys_inc. We recommend using the default directory. You must use
the same directory where the products were installed.
Note
6. The ANSYS, Inc. License Manager is selected as the only product available to in-
stall. As with the product installation, the required and available disk space
numbers are shown. Click Next.
7. The licensing file dates are compared to ensure that the most recent version of
the licensing files is being used. This installation assumes that this is the first
time you are installing ANSYS, Inc. products on this machine; therefore, no licens-
ing files will already exist and the files included with the installation package
will be used. Click Next.
8. A summary screen appears that lists the products to be installed. Because this
is a license manager installation, the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager is the only
product listed.
The ANSYS, Inc. License Manager is now being installed and configured on
your system. The installation window displays the individual actions as they
occur. When the installation is complete, the window displays any installation
errors or warnings. Review this information carefully.
9. When the license manager installation completes, click Next to begin the license
manager configuration.
10. The License Server Installation Configuration window appears, and several
configuration steps will be completed. When the ANSYS, Inc. License Wizard
appears, it will prompt you for the necessary information at each step. During
this process, the license manager will be shut down if it is running. Be aware
that this can impact any users currently running using the license manager.
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Verify that the Type of License Server selected at the bottom of the screen is
Run the ANSYS Licensing Interconnect with FLEXlm (default). Click Continue.
11. The next step is to install a license file. Click Continue. You will then need to
specify the location of the license file sent to you by ANSYS, Inc. Use the Browse
button on the file locater dialog box to navigate to the location of the license
file. If you do not have a license file, please refer to Registering the License Serv-
er (p. 42)
12. Click Continue to configure the local machine as the license server (the default
action).
15. Click Exit to close the Licensing Server Installation Configuration screen.
18. Open a terminal window and navigate to your ANSYS installation. The following
table lists the default paths to start the ANSYS products you have installed.
Application Locations
Application How to Launch
CFD Post /ansys_inc/v150/cfdpost
CFX /ansys_inc/v150/CFX/bin/<productname>
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4.5.1.1. Registering the License Server
Follow this procedure to register your license server information if you are a new
user who has not received a license file for your server or if you add or change
a license server machine. See the ANSYS, Inc. Licensing Guide for more information
on selecting license servers (Selecting License Server Machines) and on using
the ANSLIC_ADMIN utility (Using the ANSLIC_ADMIN Utility).
1. Use the Register License Server Machine Information option of the ANSLIC_AD-
MIN utility to register license server information on each license server. To run
the ANSLIC_ADMIN utility on a Linux platform, type:
/<install_dir>/shared_files/licensing/lic_admin/anslic_admin
2. Select OK and Create File to save this information to a file named licserv-
er.info by default.
3. Return the resulting licserver.info file to your ANSYS, Inc. sales represent-
ative. ANSYS, Inc. or your sales representative will then supply you with your license
keys.
4. Use the Run the License Wizard option of the ANSLIC_ADMIN utility to enter
your license key and start the license manager.
You must complete the following steps to run products across a network:
4.5.2.1. Export the /ansys_inc Directory
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The instructions below assume ANSYS, Inc. products were installed in the specified
directory.
1. Install the ANSYS, Inc. products. The following example uses /usr/ansys_inc.
The default behavior on Linux provides read-only access from all clients. To
enable read/write permission from all clients, use *(rw):
/usr/ansys_inc *(rw)
3. Run
exportfs -a
If you perform a network install where the server and client are on the same
platform and you want the clients to be able to modify the licensing configura-
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tion, you need to consider the NFS write options for the exported file system as
shown in the above examples. You also need local permissions to the licensing
directory (/shared_files/licensing/<platform>/) if you want to be
able to create the install_licconfig.log that the license configuration
produces.
If you need to transfer the files from a Windows machine with a DVD drive to a
Linux machine without one, copy the DVD contents using a Samba mount or
some other transfer method that is safe to use between Windows and Linux.
If sharing the ANSYS directory between Linux machines, you must use the same
mount point for both the client and server. For example, if you installed to a file
server in a directory named /apps/ansys_inc and you did not choose the
symbolic link to /ansys_inc, then you must mount this directory on the client
machine using /apps/ansys_inc as the mount point. If you did choose the
symbolic link to /ansys_inc during installation on the file server, you must
either use /ansys_inc as the mount point on the client or you must create a
symbolic link to /ansys_inc on the client machine. (The symbolic link is created
by default during installation if you installed as root).
Note
The username and user ID utilized when running the Product Config-
uration Utility must be the same as the installing server user.
1. On each client machine, issue the following command to run the Product Con-
figuration utility:
/ansys_inc/v150/ProductConfig.sh
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Note
5. To configure NX, run the CAD Configuration Manager. See Configuring CAD
Products (p. 69) for detailed information on using alternative methods to configure
NX.
4. Click Exit.
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Chapter 5: Post-Installation Instructions
5.1. Post-Installation Procedures for All Products
The following post-installation procedures apply to all ANSYS, Inc. products. In-
dividual products may have additional post-installation procedures; please refer
to the following sections for each product.
5.1.1. Post-Installation Procedures for Mechanical APDL and ANSYS Workbench Products
5.1.2. Post-Installation Procedures for ANSYS CFX
5.1.3. Post-Installation Procedures for ANSYS Fluent
5.1.4. Post-Installation Procedures for ANSYS Polyflow
5.1.5. Post-Installation Procedures for ANSYS ICEM CFD
5.1.6. Post-Installation Procedures for ANSYS Autodyn
5.1.7. Post-Installation Procedures for Other Products
Note
If the installation program reported any errors, please review the in-
stallation error file (install.err) located in the ANSYS Inc directory.
Contact your ANSYS Support representative if you have any questions.
After the product is installed, you need to establish some system settings, includ-
ing path names and environment variables. See your shell documentation or
man pages file for the shell being used for specific instructions on setting paths
and environment variables.
1. Add the following paths to all users' login startup files (i.e., .cshrc , .profile,
or .login files).
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2. Set the following environment variables based on the behavior you want. Set
the environment variables following the conventions of your shell. For example,
to set an environment variable in the C shell, type:
setenv environment_variable value
For example, to set the DISPLAY environment variable, you type the follow-
ing, where dev is the workstation hostname or IP address on which to dis-
play graphics:
setenv DISPLAY dev:0.0
If you will be using connection functionality, you may have additional envir-
onment variables to set. See the section Configuring CAD Products (p. 69)
later in this guide for more information.
3. Set the license manager to start automatically at boot time. For platform-specific
instructions, see License Manager Automatic Startup Instructions in the ANSYS,
Inc. Licensing Guide.
4. Designate server(s) for license checkout and establish necessary user privileges
(recommended but not required). For information on these tasks, see Post-Install-
ation Instructions for the License Manager in the ANSYS, Inc. Licensing Guide.
5. Make a backup copy of the /ansys_inc directory using a tape backup com-
mand such as tar.
6. Verify the installation by logging out as root (if you installed as root) and logging
back in as a regular user and then starting the product to verify that it starts and
runs correctly.
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1. Set the following environment variables based on the behavior you want. Set
the environment variables following the conventions of your shell. Not all of
these are required for all integrated ANSYS Workbench products (such as ANSYS
Autodyn), but setting them correctly for ANSYS Workbench will in no way hinder
the performance of the other products.
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If you will be using connection functionality, you may have additional envir-
onment variables to set. See the section Configuring CAD Products (p. 69)
later in this guide for more information.
2. Create or update the at. files. The at.allow file should contain the username
of all users allowed to run batch jobs; the at.deny file should contain the
username of users who are not permitted to run batch jobs. The files consist of
one username per line and can be modified only by the superuser. If neither file
exists, only root will be able to run batch jobs.
The at. files are located in the /etc directory on Linux machines.
4. Specify the product order as it will appear in the Mechanical APDL launcher
(optional). If you want to specify product order, use the ANSLIC_ADMIN utility.
See the ANSYS, Inc. Licensing Guide for more information.
This issue also affects Rigid Dynamics and Explicit Dynamics using both My
Computer and My Computer, Background Solve Process Settings. Please see
Configuring a Multi-User RSM Machine in the RSM documentation for more in-
formation.
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Unless you want to run ANSYS CFX commands by typing their full path names,
for example cfxroot/bin/cfx5 (where cfxroot is the directory in which
ANSYS CFX is installed), your command search paths must be modified to search
the directory cfxroot/bin. This can be done by one of the following methods:
Modification of individual user setup files You can select Tools> Configure
User Startup Files from the ANSYS CFX Launcher to modify your own setup
files: .login for the C shell, .profile for the Bourne and Korn shells. The
utility can also be run from the command line by entering:
cfxroot/bin/cfx5setupuser
If this modification is done, the ANSYS CFX software will be available every time
you log in, just by running the ANSYS CFX commands by name. This method
has the advantage that it need not be done by the system administrator, but
has the disadvantage that it must be done by each user.
User setup can also be run from the command line by entering:
cfxroot/bin/cfx5setupuser
If you choose to modify your setup files, you will see a message indicating that
your setup files have been changed. You will then need to log out and log in
again or source your setup files before you can use the software.
Manual execution of a setup script each time the software is used You can
also use the Tools menu of the launcher to launch an editor to create new setup
scripts which need to be run each time you want to use the ANSYS CFX software.
This method has the advantage of not requiring changes to existing setup files
and allows you to use different versions of ANSYS CFX software by running dif-
ferent setup files. The disadvantages are that all users must create their own
setup files and run them manually in every session in which they want to run
ANSYS CFX software.
Having created the setup files, users of the C shell then need to do the following
to run ANSYS CFX:
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source ~/cfx5.login
cfx5
Having created the setup files, users of the Bourne or Korn shell then need to
do the following before running ANSYS CFX:
.$HOME/cfx5.profile
cfx5
Is system dependent
Refer to your system documentation for information about which files to change
for your workstations.
and these lines to the .profile file in your home directory, and also the
.bash_profile if it exists:
PATH=cfxroot/bin:$PATH
export PATH
With the path altered in this way, you can start ANSYS TurboGrid in the current
working directory by typing cfxtg.
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Is system dependent
Refer to your system documentation for information about which files to change
for your workstations.
and select Tools> Configure User Startup Files. This option runs cfx-
root/bin/cfx5setupuser that modifies your setup files or writes the neces-
sary commands to files, which you can merge manually with your existing setup
files.
If you choose to modify your setup files, you will see a message indicating that
your setup files have been changed. You will then need to log out and log in
again or source your setup files before you can use the software.
User setup can also be run from the command line by entering:
cfxroot/bin/cfx5setupuser
To keep all the files for the example together, you should first create a new dir-
ectory in which to run the example. This can be done by typing:
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mkdir cfx_example
at the command line. You should then change to this directory by typing:
cd cfx_example
Note: To speed up the process of testing, consider using the provided session
files when working with ANSYS CFX-Pre.
After installing the ANSYS Fluent software, you will need to reset the default
values in the ANSYS Fluent launcher as follows:
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4. Click Default.
5. Click Yes when asked if you want to discard the LAUNCHER history.
6. Click Cancel if you do not wish to start Fluent at this time. The new defaults will
have been saved.
Please refer to the ANSYS Fluent Quick Start Guide for more information.
1. Add the following paths to all users' login startup files (i.e., .cshrc or .login
files).
/ansys_inc/v150/icemcfd/<ICEMCFD_OS_DIR>/bin
Hardware ICEMCFD_OS_DIR
Linux x64 (AMD Opteron) linux64_amd
Linux x64 (EM64T) linux64_amd
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2. Add the following environment variable to all users' login startup files.
Add the following paths to all users' login startup files (i.e., .cshrc or .login
files).
3. If ANSYS BladeModeler is not the first license listed, then select it and click Move
up as required to move it to the top of the list. If ANSYS BladeModeler is not
in the list, then you need to obtain an ANSYS BladeModeler license.
4. Select ANSYS DesignModeler in the list and set its value to 0 (which means Don't
Use). This step prevents DesignModeler from using an ANSYS DesignModeler
license when an ANSYS BladeModeler license is not available.
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Product Localization
All products that are localized define the language via the languageset-
tings.txt file. In most cases, you will not have to manually edit this file. If
you do need to edit it manually, you can use one of the following values:
ANSYS, Inc. applications will look for the languagesettings.txt file in the
following locations, in order:
1. $Home/.ansys/v150
2. <install_dir>/ansys_inc/v150/commonfiles/language
ANSYS, Inc. licensing also looks for the languagesettings.txt in the licens-
ing languages subdirectories in order to display the ANSLIC_ADMIN utility and
the ANSYS, Inc. Licensing Interconnect message and log files in a different lan-
guage.
Some products are not fully localized but offer only the messages in a translated
version. See the following section for instructions on translated message file in-
stallation.
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3. Access these files from the Language Selection option of the launcher or via the
-l command line option:
ansys150 -l fr
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Chapter 6: Silent Mode Operations
ANSYS, Inc. supports silent mode operations, including installation, product
configuration/unconfiguration, and uninstall.
You can specify the following product flags. These flags are all valid for a silent
install. However, because of the way the products are packaged, not all of these
flags may be valid for a silent configuration/unconfiguration, or uninstall.
Product Flags
Product product_flag
Mechanical APDL -mechapdl
ANSYS Customization Files -ansyscust
ANSYS Autodyn -autodyn
ANSYS LS-DYNA -lsdyna
ANSYS CFD-Post -cfdpost
ANSYS CFX -cfx
ANSYS TurboGrid -turbogrid
ANSYS Fluent -fluent
ANSYS Polyflow -polyflow
ANSYS Aqwa -aqwa
ANSYS Icepak -icepak
ANSYS ICEM CFD -icemcfd
Note: Installing any of the above products will install ANSYS Workbench.
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Product product_flag
NX Geometry Interface -ug
CATIA 4.x Geometry Interface -catia4
Parasolid Geometry Interface -parasolid
ACIS Geometry Interface -acis
If no product flags from the list above are specified, all products will be installed.
To install specific products, run the silent install with any combination of the
product flags listed above (not all products are available on all platforms). For
example, to install only TurboGrid and Icepak, issue the following command:
INSTALL -silent install_dir /ansys_inc/ -turbogrid -icepak
Additional command line arguments are available; please see the list below.
To install the ANSYS, Inc. License Manager on Linux systems that will act as license
servers, you must run the INSTALL.LM command:
INSTALL.LM -silent -install_dir path
The silent license manager installation is valid only for the default Licensing
Configuration option "Run the ANSYS Licensing Interconnect with FLEXlm." Please
see the ANSYS, Inc. Licensing Guide for more information.
You can use the following arguments when running a silent installation. Note
that some options are available only for a silent license manager installation.
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LI_port_number:FLEXlm_port_number:host-
name
Example:
2325:1055:abc
LI_port_number:FLEXlm_port_number:host-
name1,hostname2,hostname3
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Example:
2325:1055:abc,def,xyz
Example:
::abc
or
::abc,def,xyz
Any messages will be written to the appropriate installation log files. Installation
log files are located in the installation directory: install.log contains install-
ation messages, and install_licconfig.log contains licensing installation
messages. In rare circumstances with a silent licensing installation, the licensing
installation messages may not be written to the install_licconfig.log
(for example, if the silent licensing installation aborts); in these cases, you may
find error messages in the .ansys_install_temp_liccon-
fig_<user>_<index>.log file, located in /var/tmp.
Caution
A silent license manager installation could shut down the ANSYS, Inc.
License Manager, affecting other users who are using that license
server machine.
For more information on the silent license manager installation, see the ANSYS,
Inc. Licensing Guide.
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Silent Product Configuration/Unconfiguration
To run in silent mode, from each client machine, run the ProductConfig with
the -silent option:
/ansys_inc/v150/ProductConfig.sh -silent
Product product_flag
Mechanical APDL -mechapdl
ANSYS CFD-Post -cfdpost
ANSYS CFX -cfx
ANSYS TurboGrid -turbogrid
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Product product_flag
ANSYS Fluent -fluent
ANSYS Polyflow -polyflow
ANSYS Icepak -icepak
ANSYS ICEM CFD -icemcfd
ANSYS Remote Solve Manager Standalone Ser- -rsm
vices
Errors will be written to the install.err on the server machine if you have
write access to that machine.
Copy the contents of each DVD to a folder on the machine's hard disk such that
the 150-<number>.dvd files of each DVD are located in the same directory. You
can then proceed with the silent installation as described earlier.
Place all of the media in separate drives (any combination of virtual ISO mounts
or hardware drives) so that they can be accessed simultaneously during the install-
ation. Then run the silent installation as described earlier, but include the additional
-media_dir2 <path> option for each drive:
INSTALL -silent -install_dir path -product_flag -media_dir2 <path>
The installer uses the mount directory from which it was launched as the first
media path; you need to specify only the location of the subsequent DVD(s)
using the -media_dir2 option shown in the example above.
The silent uninstall will automatically uninstall all products for this release and
delete the v150 directory and all subdirectories. You will not be prompted for
confirmation.
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Silent Media Installation
For example, to uninstall only TurboGrid and Icepak, issue the following command:
/ansys_inc/v150/ans_uninstall150 silent -turbogrid -icepak
You can also issue the -help option to see a list of valid arguments for a silent
uninstall.
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Chapter 7: Configuring CAD Products
The connection functionality of all supported CAD products is included with the
ANSYS release media, and all CAD functionality except NX is installed by default.
To use the connection functionality, you need to ensure that the product is
properly licensed, and set any necessary environment variables or other config-
uration as appropriate. See the manuals for the individual CAD products for in-
formation about environment variables and other configuration requirements.
For complete information about the files you can import, see Introduction to
Import in the ANSYS Connection User's Guide.
Caution
If you are running NX, some additional configuration may be required, especially
if you chose to skip configuring these products during the installation process.
The following sections describe any post-installation configuration procedures
that are required and how to manually configure NX if you did not configure NX
during installation or if you are updating your CAD versions. These methods are
all described in the following sections.
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CAD Selection
NX
CAD Configuration
You can choose Help to view instructions on using the CAD Configuration
Manager at any time. If the help does not load into your default browser, set
the BROWSER environment variable to the path of your HTML viewer (such as
Mozilla or Firefox) and restart the CAD Configuration Manager.
1. Run the following command to start the CAD Configuration Manager, substi-
tuting the full installation path if different than /ansys_inc:
/ansys_inc/v150/commonfiles/CAD/bin/ansmono Ans.CadInt.CADConfigUtilityGUI.exe.
2. On the CAD Selection tab, choose the ANSYS products and the CAD products
that you need to configure. You must select at least one ANSYS product and at
least one CAD product to enable the remaining functionality.
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b. The NX custom directory file is not applicable on Linux and can be ignored
as it will be disabled.
c. Click Next.
b. When the configuration for all products is complete, log entries appear,
listing those products that were successfully configured and those that were
not. Address any errors and reconfigure.
c. For more details, click the Display Configuration Log File button to see a
detailed log file.
5. When all of your CAD products have been successfully configured, click Exit.
You can review the CAD Configuration Manager log file, CADConfiguration-
Mgr.log, in /ansys_inc. If you do not have write permissions to the /an-
sys_inc directory, the log file will be written to $TEMP. If you have not defined
$TEMP, the log file is written to /tmp. When /tmp is not accessible, this file will
be written to the current working directory.
7.1.1. Unconfiguring
If you need to unconfigure any of your CAD products, follow the steps above,
but choose Unconfigure Selected CAD Interfaces on the CAD Configuration
tab.
The command to run the CAD Configuration Manager in batch mode on Linux
is:
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/ansys_inc/v150/commonfiles/CAD/bin/ansmono Ans.CadInt.CADConfigurationUtility.exe
-arguments
Note
For example, you can configure the NX Geometry Interface to ANSYS Workbench
from the command line by using the following:
/ansys_inc/v150/commonfiles/CAD/bin/ansmono Ans.CadInt.CADConfigurationUtility.exe
-UG_CONFIG_WB -UGII_BASE_DIR "<pathtonx>"
Although the argument order does not matter, an argument value must imme-
diately follow its argument.
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Configuring the Geometry Interface for NX for ANSYS Workbench
Products
7.1.3. NX Configuration
Running the CAD Configuration Manager for NX performs the following steps
to activate the NX reader:
Registers the NX Reader for ANSYS Workbench by copying the file UGNX#.Com-
ponent.XML from /ansys_inc/v150/aisol/CADIntegration/UG to
either /ansys_inc/v150/commonfiles/registry/linx64/append when
the configuration manager is in administrative mode or to $HOME/.config/An-
sys/150/UserRegFiles_NNNN/append, when the CAD Configuration
Manager is run by a non-administrator. The CAD Configuration Manager ensures
that only one version of the file exists in the target location.
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Chapter 8: Uninstalling the Software
8.1. Uninstalling ANSYS, Inc. Products
To uninstall a product, issue the following command:
/ansys_inc/v150/ans_uninstall150
Alternatively, if you are using the Mechanical APDL product, you can use the
Uninstall option of the ANS_ADMIN utility. To launch ANS_ADMIN, issue the
following command:
/ansys_inc/v150/ansys/bin/ans_admin150
1. From the uninstall panel, choose one of the following uninstall options:
If you are not a superuser, you will see a warning message, and then the
uninstall continues.
2. If you chose Select Products to Uninstall, you will see a list of products that
are installed. Select those products you want to uninstall and click Continue.
Then click OK to confirm the list of products to be uninstalled.
If you chose Uninstall all ANSYS Products, you will be asked to confirm
that you want to uninstall all products. Click Yes. This process will remove
all files and directories under and including the /ansys_inc/v150 directory.
In the case of a platform (file server) installation, the uninstall will remove the
selected product(s) from all of the Linux platforms.
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Chapter 9: Troubleshooting
9.1. Installation Troubleshooting
This section lists problems and error messages that you may encounter while
installing and/or running ANSYS, Inc. products. After each situation description
or error message is the user action required to correct the problem.
You can also find answers to commonly-asked questions on our customer portal.
After you log in to the customer portal, select Knowledge Resources> Solutions.
In addition, this appendix describes the ansys_pid utility, which is useful for
troubleshooting some problems.
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If the installation does not progress beyond the extraction of any single file during
the file extraction phase, you may have insufficient disk space in the temporary
directory that the file extraction utility uses. Be aware that some components require
a lengthy extraction time; we recommend allowing up to 30 minutes for these
components to extract if you are running on a particularly old or slow system.
To resolve this problem, remove files from your $TEMP directory to free up
disk space, or increase the size of any disk quotas on your $TEMP directory.
On a few machine configurations, the online help system can take up to 60 seconds
longer than the product to initialize, due to the large amount of documentation
available. If you request help within 60 seconds of running the product, you may
simply need to wait a few more seconds for help to start.
If you have minimized the help windows, activating help will not restore them to
their original size. Instead of minimizing help, you can close the help windows
when you are done using help. This does not exit the help, so the help system will
still be available quickly next time you request help.
The help system may have aborted due to a system error. You cannot restart the
help system from your current session. You can save your work and restart a new
session.
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If the text in the online help is unclear (the fonts are too small, too large, or
rough around the edges):
Use the [+] or [-] keys to enlarge or reduce the fonts. Depending on your sys-
tem's configuration and installed fonts, you may need to experiment with the
[+] and [-] keys to adjust your font size. The [+] will increase the font size, and
the [-] will decrease it. On some systems, you need to use the [+] and [-] keys
on the standard keypad, rather than those on the number pad.
If, when starting ICEM CFD or Icepak over Exceed, all of the Linux window controls
(borders, close buttons, etc.) disappear, or the help windows appear but are
small and in the top left corner of the screen:
You need to change your window manager settings in Exceed. See the section
Note to Exceed Users earlier in this guide for information on changing your
window manager settings.
If changing the window manager settings does not correct the problem, we
recommend upgrading to Exceed 7.0 or higher.
If the problem still occurs, change the Window Manager to X. You must start
an X Windows manager like mwm before running ICEM CFD or Icepak.
This is a result of the mouse click signals traveling over the network via an
Exceed connection. Try adjusting the Exceed Performance settings. See the
section Note to Exceed Users earlier in this guide for information on specific
changes we suggest.
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QT_IM_MODULE
XMODIFIERS
GTK_IM_MODULE
You should reset these environment variables when you are finished running
the installation or using ANSLIC_ADMIN. Do not permanently unset these envir-
onment variables as doing so could affect other applications.
Red Hat If you are installing on Linux Red Hat 5 machines on the local console,
and you are unable to enter text into any of the text fields in the installer, you
may have to disable SCIM (Smart Common Input Method) as follows:
This message occurs if you have selected a platform for installation that does
not match the files you are trying to install (either from the installation DVD
or from downloaded installation files).
This error may appear during the ANSYS installation if you have entered the
wrong DVD pathname. Check Mounting the DVD Instructions for DVD Installa-
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tions (Linux x64 Only) (p. 22) and enter the correct pathname for your plat-
form.
Licensing files currently installed for <platform> are more recent than
those on the installation media. The <platform> files will not be installed
and will be deselected.
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You may encounter this or a similar message if you attempt to use ANSYS
15.0 with a different version of MPI than is supported. See the Parallel Pro-
cessing Guide for a complete list of supported MPI versions.
Verify that the documentation list file for the user interface exists in the
/ansys_inc/v150/ansys/gui/en-us/UIDL subdirectory.
ls -l /ansys_inc/v150/ansys/gui/en-us/UIDL/menulist150.ans
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Make sure that the pathnames in the menulist150.ans file are correct.
If you see this error, you cannot add or modify profile information during
this launcher session. Verify that you have write access to the directory and
restart the launcher session. Typically, this directory is C:\Documents and
Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Ansys\v150\launch-
er on Windows or ~/.ansys/v150/launcher on Linux.
In Procedure: fappnd
At Line: 72
Unit: 19
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forrtl: severe (9): permission to access file denied, unit 19, file
/build/v150/ansys/objs
If ANSYS Workbench detects that graphics problems are causing crashes, it will
automatically switch to software rendering. ANSYS Workbench also will use
software rending mode by default when running on a remote display, or on a
local display if the hardware does not appear to be accelerated.
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Contacting Technical Support
If your support is provided by ANSYS, Inc. directly, Technical Support can be ac-
cessed quickly and efficiently from the ANSYS Customer Portal, which is available
from the ANSYS Website (www.ansys.com) under Support > Customer Portal.
The direct URL is: support.ansys.com.
One of the many useful features of the Customer Portal is the Knowledge Re-
sources Search, which can be found on the Home page of the Customer Portal.
Systems and installation Knowledge Resources are easily accessible via the Cus-
tomer Portal by using the following keywords in the search box: Systems/In-
stallation. These Knowledge Resources provide solutions and guidance on
how to resolve installation and licensing issues quickly.
NORTH AMERICA
All ANSYS, Inc. Products
Web: Go to the ANSYS Customer Portal (http://support.ansys.com) and select the
appropriate option.
Toll-Free Telephone: 1.800.711.7199
Fax: 1.724.514.5096
Support for University customers is provided only through the ANSYS Customer
Portal.
GERMANY
ANSYS Mechanical Products
Telephone: +49 (0) 8092 7005-55 (CADFEM)
Email: [email protected]
All ANSYS Products
Web: Go to the ANSYS Customer Portal (http://support.ansys.com) and select the
appropriate option.
National Toll-Free Telephone:
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UNITED KINGDOM
All ANSYS, Inc. Products
Web: Go to the ANSYS Customer Portal (http://support.ansys.com) and select the
appropriate option.
Telephone: Please have your Customer or Contact ID ready.
UK: 0800 048 0462
Republic of Ireland: 1800 065 6642
Outside UK: +44 1235 420130
Email: [email protected]
Support for University customers is provided only through the ANSYS Customer
Portal.
JAPAN
CFX , ICEM CFD and Mechanical Products
Telephone: +81-3-5324-8333
Fax: +81-3-5324-7308
Email:
CFX: [email protected];
Mechanical: [email protected]
Fluent Products
Telephone: +81-3-5324-7305
Email:
Fluent: [email protected];
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Polyflow: [email protected];
FfC: [email protected];
FloWizard: [email protected]
Icepak
Telephone: +81-3-5324-7444
Email: [email protected]
Licensing and Installation
Email: [email protected]
INDIA
All ANSYS, Inc. Products
Web: Go to the ANSYS Customer Portal (http://support.ansys.com) and select the
appropriate option.
Telephone: +91 1 800 209 3475 (toll free) or +91 20 6654 3000 (toll)
Fax: +91 80 6772 2600
Email:
FEA products: [email protected];
CFD products: [email protected];
Ansoft products: [email protected];
Installation: [email protected]
FRANCE
All ANSYS, Inc. Products
Web: Go to the ANSYS Customer Portal (http://support.ansys.com) and select the
appropriate option.
Toll-Free Telephone: +33 (0) 800 919 225 Toll Number: +33 (0) 170 489 087
Email: [email protected]
BELGIUM
All ANSYS Products
Web: Go to the ANSYS Customer Portal (http://support.ansys.com) and select the
appropriate option.
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SWEDEN
All ANSYS Products
Web: Go to the ANSYS Customer Portal (http://support.ansys.com) and select the
appropriate option.
Telephone: +44 (0) 870 142 0300
Email: [email protected]
Support for University customers is provided only through the ANSYS Customer
Portal.
ITALY
All ANSYS Products
Web: Go to the ANSYS Customer Portal (http://support.ansys.com) and select the
appropriate option.
Telephone: +39 02 89013378
Email: [email protected]
Support for University customers is provided only through the ANSYS Customer
Portal.
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Chapter 10: Applications Included with Each Product
The following table displays which ANSYS, Inc. applications are included with
each of the product installation options.
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