Installation Improvements

The installer now reduces the number of configuration files when more than one Flame Family product is installed. Some information about project server installation.

Consolidating Installations

Some files previously available in /opt/Autodesk/<product version>/bin are now available in /opt/Autodesk/.<flame family version>/bin. This way files needed by multiple products are no longer duplicated for every product but shared between them.

Utilities are no longer duplicated when you install the different components of the Flame Family: installing Flame, Flame Assist, and Flare only installs one copy of each Hardware Validation, Service Monitor, Setup. See Utilities Improvements.

Project Server Installation Option (Linux)

Flame Family products installed on Linux contain a new script, /opt/Autodesk/<product>/bin/INSTALL_PROJECTSERVER. This script installs and configures the software to run as a project server.

The project server configuration is useful if you want to set up multiple Flames sharing projects for collaborative workflows.

This script is best used in a headless standalone system that will host projects for a small workgroup of Flame Family systems. No GPU is required on the system that runs the project server.

The script installs the minimum set of services required for sharing projects from a central location. It lets you redirect the storage of your project metadata to a different but persistent mount point.

To install a project server:

  1. Install the Autodesk Linux ISO on the workstation.
  2. Install the DKU without the NVIDIA kernel modules:
    INSTALL_DKU --nonvdriver
  3. Once the DKU is installed, restart the workstation.
  4. Copy the Flame distribution to the workstation and untar it.
  5. Run:
    INSTALL_PROJECTSERVER --backburner --cidr <subnet of your workgroup> --dataroot <path where your projects should be stored>
    • --backburner installs Backburner on the system. The project server can be used as the Backburner manager for your workgroup.
    • --cidr lets you restrict the NFS exports of your project server to a range of IP addresses. If this option is not used, the exports are opened to all systems on your network. IP ranges are specified with IPv4/Prefix notation like 192.168.1.0/24.
    • --dataroot lets you redirect the standard project location from /opt/Autodesk to a different location. You could, for instance, mount a disk under /var/opt/Autodesk and use this path as your data root. This way, your data is separate from your project server installation. Should you want to decommission your project server but preserve your project data, you can mount your project disk on a different system and install the project server on the new system, using the new mount point as the data root.
    • Example:
      INSTALL_PROJECTSERVER --backburner --cidr 192.168.1.0/24 --dataroot /var/opt/Autodesk