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Connecting to Ansys licence servers

The following instructions need to be relayed to your IT department to ensure that the firewall is properly configured. 

Ports and Firewalls

Getting Ansys licensing to work through a firewall can be confusing as it requires three ports to be opened through a firewall. The third port is not obvious as it is not locked to a specific port number. There are three TCP port numbers to consider.

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$ module load ansys-fluids/version
$ $PAWSEY_ANSYS_FLUIDS_HOME/fluids/shared_files/licensing/linx64/lmutil 
$ lmstat -a
$ nmap -P0 -p 1055,2325,24680 myflexlmserver.edu.au

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