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Setting up the License Manager (for floating licenses)

This section is required for users who purchased a Partek Flow floating license. If you have purchased a node locked license, skip this section and proceed to Launching Partek Flow for the first time.
FlexLM is a software license manager required to provide floating licenses to multiple end users of Partek Flow. The instructions below are intended for customers planning on running the license server on a Linux host.

Prerequisites

FlexLM may require the Linux standard base utilities to run on Ubuntu. If you receive the message "No such file or directory", then run the following commands as root:
$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install lsb-core

Linux FlexLM server installation instructions

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The default configuration for the license server is complete. For additional details or advanced use cases, consult the FlexLM manual located in the FlexNet 11.12 distribution (FlexNet folder) named FLEXnet-v11.12-License_Administration_Guide.pdf.

Launching Partek Flow for the first time

Access Partek Flow on a web browser

Once Partek Flow server has been started, access the interface using a web browser.

• If you are on the computer running Partek Flow, go to http://localhost:8080/flow
  Note that if the Flow server port was assigned a different number during installation, replace 8080 with the correct port.

• If you are on a computer other than the Partek Flow server computer, localhost should be replaced with the IP address of the Partek Flow server computer

Enter the License key

When Partek Flow is launched for the first time, the user is prompted to provide a license key (Figure 2).

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Create an Administrator Account

Partek Flow supports multiple users, each of which can either be classified as administrator or regular user, based on access privileges. First you must set-up an administrator account. Additional users may be added after installation.

To set up the Partek Flow administrator account. Specify the username ('admin'), password, and email (Figure 3) and click Next. 

Select library file directory

Select a directory folder to store the library files that will be downloaded or generated by Partek Flow (Figure 4).  All Partek Flow users share library files and the size of the library folder can grow significantly. We recommend at least 100GB of free space should be allocated for library files.  The free space in the selected library file directory is shown.  Click Next to proceed.  For more information, see Library file management.

After selecting the library file directory, the installation is done. Click the Finish button (Figure 5).

The browser will display the Partek Flow Homepage (Figure 6). Since there are no projects available, links to the download tutorial data as well as the link to the documentation pages are displayed.

Backing up the Partek Flow database

To backup the database, open a Linux terminal and enter the following commands.

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