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Inability to query license server

If License Statistics cannot query the license server, the log will contain an error message such as the following:

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To do this, navigate from a command line to the directory that contains the query tool and follow the instructions below, depending on which license server you are checking. If there are errors in the communication between the license server and License Statistics, you will receive information about the errors. Otherwise, you will see normal statistics information for the indicated license server.

LM-X

For an LM-X license server, type the command:

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where host and port are the host and port appropriate for your license server. The host and port designations are optional. If the host information is omitted, the local host is used; if the port information is omitted, the default port is used.

FLEXlm/FlexNet

For a FLEXlm/FlexNet license server, type the following commands:

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where port and host are the port and host appropriate for your license server, and vendor is the vendor daemon's name (this name is case-sensitive by FlexNet's default license server configuration). The port designation is optional; if it is omitted, the default port is used. Specifying the vendor is also optional.  

RLM

For an RLM license server, type the command:

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where port and host are the port and host appropriate for your license server. The port designation is optional; if it is omitted, the default port is used.

Sentinel LM/RMS

For a Sentinel LM/RMS license server, type the command:

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where host is the host appropriate for your license server. The host designation is optional; if it is omitted, the local host is used.

IBM LUM

For an IBM LUM license server, type the command:

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where host is the host appropriate for your license server.

Dassault  

For a Dassault license server, you can get license, user, and denials information by following the procedures below.

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1. Create a text file named sl.txt.
   
   
2. Add the following four lines to sl.txt:
   
   c host port
sl -from date hour
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q
   
   where:
   • host and port are the host and port appropriate for your license server,
   • date is in YYYY/MM/DD format, and hour is in HH:MM:SS format.
     (Note that you should use current values for date and hour.)
     
     
3. Run the command:
   
   dslicsrv -admin -i sl.txt
   

Realtime usage error

If a monitored license server is hosted on a different machine than License Statistics is installed on, the license server's response to License Statistics' query about its status may be delayed. In such cases, a warning such as the following occurs for each query that was delayed. 

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