Is it possible to install an Individual or Designated Computer license of MATLAB and access Concurrent toolboxes?

I have MATLAB installed locally and I would like to be able to access toolboxes under a Concurrent license from a server machine.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

It is possible to set up your local MATLAB (Individual or Designated Computer) to access concurrent toolboxes. There is a slight difference with designated computer licenses which will be addressed below.

If you already have MATLAB installed locally with an individual/designated computer license, then in order to access concurrent toolboxes, you would need to obtain the network license file from your license administrator (typically called network.lic).

Once you have this license file, you can either re-run the MathWorks Installer using this license file to install the concurrent toolboxes. Or you can activate MATLAB using the network.lic. This will provide you access to the toolboxes, however you would still be required to install any toolboxes from the concurrent license that weren't already installed. See the following article for more information on installing toolboxes using the Add-On Manager.

In the situation where the user does not currently have MATLAB installed with either a network license, or their own standalone license, then it would be recommended to run the installer twice for each license, as described above.

NOTE:

For designated computer licenses, when installing/activating MATLAB, the designated computer license is placed into the same directory as the network.lic. You would need to ensure the designated license file is first alphabetically compared with the network.lic. This is only an issue if the license files are renamed by the admins. The license file that comes first alphabetically in this particular instance is the license MATLAB will launch using, and toolboxes will be pulled from that license first.