Testing your license
Once you have obtained a license key for your machine, you are ready to test your license using the Gurobi Interactive Shell. To do this, double-click on the Gurobi icon on your desktop. The shell should produce the following output:
Gurobi Interactive Shell, Version 8.0.0
Copyright (c) 2018, Gurobi Optimization, LLC
Type "help()" for help
gurobi>
If you are running as a client of a Gurobi Compute Server, the message above will be preceded by a message like this:
Capacity available on 'myserver' - connecting... Established HTTP unencrypted connection
Congratulations, your license is functioning correctly! You are now ready to use the Gurobi Optimizer. The next section will show you how to solve a simple optimization model.
Possible errors
If the Gurobi shell didn't produce the desired output, there's a problem with your license. We'll list a few common errors here.
The following message...
ERROR: No Gurobi license found (user smith, host mymachine, hostid 9d3128ce)indicates that your
gurobi.lic file couldn't be found.
Did you use a non-default license file location? When you run the
Windows version of the Gurobi Optimizer, it
will look for the gurobi.lic key file in three different
default locations. It will always look in your home directory. In
addition, Gurobi Optimizer 8.0.0 will also look in
c:\gurobi and c:\gurobi800. Note that these default paths are
absolute, so for example Gurobi will look for the license key file in
c:\gurobi, even if the software is installed in
d:\gurobi.
If you used a non-default license key file location, you should set
environment variable GRB_LICENSE_FILE to point to the license
key file. See Setting environment
variables for details on how to do this.
Important note: the environment variable should point to the license key file itself, not to the directory that contains the file.
The following message:
ERROR: HostID mismatch (licensed to 9d3128ce, hostid is 7de025e9)indicates that your
gurobi.lic isn't valid for this machine.
You should make sure that you are using the right gurobi.lic
file.
If you are running as a client of a Gurobi token server and receive this message:
ERROR: Failed to connect to token server 'myserver' (port 41954)the token server isn't currently running. If you receive this message:
ERROR: No TOKENSERVER specified for TOKEN licenseyour license file is missing the
TOKENSERVER= line
that provides the name of your token server.
Please consult the section on
setting up a token server.
If you are running as a client of a Gurobi Compute Server and receive this message:
ERROR: No server availablethe Compute Server isn't currently running. Please consult the section on setting up a Compute Server.
If, after following the instructions, you still experience problems while setting up or testing your license, you can contact us at key@gurobi.com. Please include the exact text of the error message you are receiving.
