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The information on this page refers to License Statistics v6.11 and newer, which redesigned license server management (resulting in removing merge functionality and the importlog directory, and support for using multiple data sources for license servers rather than separate "realtime" and "import" servers). If you are using a version previous to v6.11, see documentation for previous versions.

How can I produce a FlexNet report log for importing usage data into License Statistics?
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  1. Create an option file. For example:

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    C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware License Server\Licenses\vmwarelm.opt


  2. Specify the location of the option file in your license file. For example:
     

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    SERVER this_host ANY 27000
    VENDOR VMWARELM port=27010 "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware License Server\Licenses\vmwarelm.opt


  3. In the option file, enable report logs. This will produce the log. For example:

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    REPORTLOG +"C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware License Server\Licenses\vmwarelm.log


  4.  Import the log into License Statistics by placing it in the importlog directory. An example header of a report log is shown below:Enable importing for the license server.  

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    # FLEXnet Licensing Report Log, 23 September, 2010 (10:01), "VMWARELM" on "virtualcenter" FLEXnet Licensing v10.8.6.0 build 54892 i86_n3


Is it possible to monitor Realtime Denials for a FlexNet license server?
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realtime denials flexnet

Currently, monitoring Realtime Denials can be enabled only for LM-X License Manager, Dassault license server, Altair License Manager, and custom license servers.

If you're working with a FlexNet license server and want to obtain information about users currently unable to check out a license due to too many checkout requests, as a workaround you can import debug logs in order to extract denials data from them. See Importing license server data for more information. For a full list of license servers from which License Statistics can gather usage statistics, see Supported license servers.

After a user stopped using an application, FLEXlm still kept that user's license checked out. How can you reset the license?
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license still checked out

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lmdiag -n -c port@host

From our observations, this error does not appear to be harmful. The problem has been reported for FLEXlm versions between 8 and 10. More recent versions no longer seem to have this issue.

To fix the error, try downloading the latest version of lmutil  and place it in the C:\xflicstat directory. If this does not fix the problem, talk to your application vendor and get a fixed version of FLEXlm.

Does License Statistics handle FLEXlm reservations?
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flexnet reservations

License Statistics handles reservations that aren't included in license usage statistics until they're actively used.

When querying a FLEXlm license server, output that includes reserved licenses looks similar to the following:

Users of adv_assemblies: (Total of 27 licenses issued; Total of 6 licenses in use)

  "adv_assemblies" v21.0, vendor: uglmd
  floating license

2 RESERVATIONs for INTERNET 10.1.*.* (lic_ugs/27000)
2 RESERVATIONs for INTERNET 10.10.*.* (lic_ugs/27000)
2 RESERVATIONs for INTERNET 121.*.*.* (lic_ugs/27000)