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You can add and edit license servers using the Realtime License Servers tab in the Administration page. (This page is visible only for License Statistics administrator users.)
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- To edit an existing license server, click the Edit icon in the Realtime License Servers grid row for the license server you want to change. An Edit License Server dialog opens to allow you to change the existing settings for that license server.
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To add a new license server, click Add New at the bottom of the Realtime License Servers grid. An Add New License Server dialog opens to allow you to configure the new license server. - Complete the information in the Add New/Edit License Server dialog's General tab as described in General tab settings, below.
- After you enter all the information for the license server in the General tab, you can click Verify to ensure that you can connect to the license server.
Verification may take a long time depending on the license manager’s response time. (Setting the query interval in the Additional Options tab to 1 minute may make verification faster.) The results include the status (success or failure), the reason for the failure if verification failed, and the query tool output. You can save the output to a file if desired.
- To continue to the Additional Options tab, click Next. Complete the information in the Additional Options tab as described in Additional Options tab settings, below.
- To assign or edit server aliases, go to the Aliases tab.
- To merge license server data, go to the Merge tab.
Note that the Merge and Aliases tabs are disabled until the correctness of the configuration is verified and License Statistics is able to gather data from the license server. - After completing all settings as needed, click Save or Save and Close to save the license server. You can click Cancel at any time if you do not wish to save your changes.
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Additional Options tab settings
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| Query Interval |
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| Reader Timeout | Timeout setting for reader in seconds. Leave this box unchecked to indicate that there is no timeout. | ||||||
| Anonymous Usernames/Anonymous Hostnames | Make users and hosts anonymous in database and HTML output (normally used to protect users for legal reasons, as is required in some countries). Note that you can set this additional option only when adding a license server: once the server is added, the option can no longer be edited. | ||||||
| Realtime Denials | Enable monitoring denials data in real time. This option works only with the following license servers:
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| Feature Versioning | Enable feature versioning Feature Versioning for the supported license server types. Currently this option works with the following license servers:
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License server status
The license server status can be one of the following:
License Server Status
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| Up | The current license server configuration is correct and the license server can be monitored successfully. | ||||||
| Down | The license server cannot be monitored successfully because its configuration is incorrect or there are parsing failures. | ||||||
| Disabled | The license server has been disabled in the license server configuration or cannot be enabled because you have reached your limit of license servers you can monitor. (For more details, see the information about the "Enabled" checkbox in Adding and editing a license server, above). This status may also indicate that enabling the license server failed or there are problems reading the configuration file for the license server when starting License Statistics. | ||||||
| Verifying | The license server is under verification after being added or edited. |
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