Installation Guide for pc

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Setting Up a Concurrent Installation
This section describes two ways you can set up a MATLAB concurrent 
installation on your network:
• “Remote Client Access Configuration”
• “Local Client Access Configuration”
Remote Client Access Configuration
In a remote client access configuration, you install MATLAB and the license 
manager on a central file server. (These instructions refer to this system as 
your license server.) Users on client systems access MATLAB over the network. 
This figure shows one possible configuration. The license manager (FLEXlm) 
and MATLAB can be installed on the same server or on separate servers.
If your license server is a PC, follow the instructions in “Concurrent 
Installation Procedure” on page 2-8. If your license server is a UNIX system, 
follow the instructions in the Installation Guide for UNIX. A UNIX license 
server can serve PC clients and a PC server can serve UNIX clients.
In remote client access configurations, it can be helpful to give clients a script 
that sets up a shortcut to the network copy of MATLAB and specifies a default 
startup directory for MATLAB. See “After You Install” on page 2-21 for more 
setup suggestions.
Local Client Access Configuration
In a local client access configuration, you install the license manager on a 
server and you install MATLAB on each client system. When users on client 
MATLAB
FLEXlm
Server
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Concurrent License Installation Procedure
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systems start MATLAB, it contacts the license manager over the network to 
check out a license key. This figure shows one possible configuration. 
You perform the same procedure, described in “Concurrent Installation 
Procedure” on page 2-8, to install the license manager and each MATLAB 
client installation. However, there are some differences. See “Installing 
MATLAB on a Client System” on page 2-19 for complete information.
FLEXlm
Server
Client
Client
Client
MATLAB
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Concurrent Licensing