Site licenses “Port 5053 in use, waiting…” message

If you are seeing the “Port 5053 in use, waiting…” message in your debug log (or on the console), that means there’s already an RLM license server running on that port. 

Port 5053 is the default port for RLM licenses.

So, to fix this you need to change the DesignBuilder client port from 5053 to something like 5060 on DesignBuilder licence file after the server hostID as showed below:

You will need to Restart the DesignBuilder License Server service to pick up the new port.

The port used on the client side at DB licence manager will also need to be changed to 5060. 

How to set up a new webserver port (move away from 5054).

For example use port 5056

1. Edit the admin_interface.cmd file supplied by DB and replace the line

@start "" /b "http://localhost:5054" by

@start "" /b "http://localhost:5056"

2. Edit the service_install.cmd and replace the line:

rlm -install_service -dlog "%CD%\designb_rlm.log" -service_name "DesignBuilder License Server" -c "%CD%" -ws 5056

3. Save the changes and run the service_install.cmd

To install the service you may need to run this command from a Command Window with elevated privileges.

4. Typing on a browser localhost:5056 should display the RLM server interface page.

Currently, DesignBuilder can only run with RLM v11 and is not compatible with newer versions of RLM. 

RLM version 11 download link