Thursday, October 4, 2007

Monitoring FlexLM license usage

The best friend of anyone who has got anything to do with flexlm, is the log file of the server.

But as you know, the 'view log' command of LMTOOLS is dumb as hell. It just shows you the situation at moment you click View Log. (well it does not even have a close button on the upper right corner, it's too much to ask for a scrolling live log feed ! )

With the help of the old `tail` command from UNIX systems, it's easy to watch a logfile in realtime. You won't have to install a flavor of UNIX for this, luckily someone has ported this nifty utility to Win32 platform : get it here. (it's licensed under GNU/GPL)

After you tell Tail32 to watch your UGS License Server, it will look like this :


Now you're one step closer to controlling the universe. Quite cool, right ?

If you're a CAE-oriented-guy and see the world in meshes, you can use this to watch as your .op2 solution file grows bigger and bigger.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very good point. It seems much easier with your table.

Anonymous said...

Hello Hakan, thank you for sharing your nxway with us. I guess you are the first nx blogger, or I couldn't find any other since now.
Good luck with your blog. Keep posting frequently:)

Anonymous said...

Nice example. We've found great joy using License Statistics though. It gives us an easy overview in html format so anyone in our department can see it. See http://www.x-formation.com/license_statistics/index.html

Poul

Anonymous said...

http://www.openlm.com/

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