Retrieving a Web License Service (WLS) client license
A WLS license allows you to run Gurobi from within a containerized environment. Your application will need to provide valid credentials for your WLS license, either through a license file or through an API key. When your application starts a Gurobi environment, it will communicate with the Gurobi WLS server over the Internet to retrieve a token that will allow it proceed.
While some container environments may run macOS or Windows binaries, Gurobi currently only supports Linux containers.
The simplest way to use a WLS license is with a gurobi.lic
license file. To retrieve one, visit the
Web License Manager
site, log in to your
account, click on the Licenses tab, and finally click Download
for the WLS license you plan to use.
We recommend that you store the resulting
gurobi.lic file in /opt/gurobi, which
is the default location on Linux.
The gurobi.lic file you get will always
contain the following three lines:
WLSACCESSID=203dec48-e3f8-46ac-0184-92d7d6ded944 WLSSECRET=a080cce8-4e01-4e36-955e-61592c5630db LICENSEID=12127These give the WLS license ID, the access ID for that license, and the corresponding secret key. These credentials are private and should not be shared with anyone who is not entitled to use your license.
As noted earlier, you can also provide your credentials through a Gurobi programming language API using an API key.
Using 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: c:\gurobi,
c:\gurobi952 (for Gurobi
9.5.2), and your home directory. 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. Note that the token
server won't look for the license file in your home directory (it runs
under username LocalService, so it doesn't have access to your
home directory).
If you would like to use a non-default license key file location, you
can do so by setting a system
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.
Next steps
Once you have followed the steps above and obtained a license key file, your next step is to test your license.
