The information on this page refers to License Statistics v4.0 or newer, which added support for Felics. If you are running a previous version of License Statistics, please refer to the documentation relevant to your version: v3.11 documentation; v3.10 documentation. |
Requirements for installing and running License Statistics are detailed below.
Operating system and resource requirements
License Statistics run on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.
Note: 32-bit executables can usually run on a 64-bit OS, due to a 32-bit compatibility layer. This is true for Linux and Windows, among others. Also note that License Statistics requires a 32-bit environment (e.g., 32-bit compatible libraries, etc.) when running on a 64-bit Linux platform. License Statistics does not currently run in a pure 64-bit Linux environment.
Requirements vary depending on the number of license servers you are monitoring, as follows.
Requirements For | Small Installations (up to 10 license servers) | Large Installations (more than 10 license servers) |
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Operation System | Windows 32-bit (requires .NET v4.0) Linux 32-bit | Windows 64-bit (requires .NET v4.0) Linux 64-bit (requires 32-bit libraries) |
Resources | Dual core CPU 2 GB RAM (If running dedicated setup with embedded MySQL server, 4 GB RAM is required.) | 4-8 core CPU 12 GB of RAM |
License server dependent requirements
In order to run License Statistics, you must meet the following requirements, depending on the license management service(s) used. You must provide the path to one or more of these utilities as appropriate in the configuration file; see Configuring License Statistics. If your site uses both Unix and Windows machines, be sure to use the utility that corresponds with the platform on which License Statistics is installed.
License Server | Required Utility Executable | Obtained From | Notes |
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LM-X License Manager | lmxendutil | Application vendor |
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FLEXlm/FlexNet | lmutil | Flexera website or your application vendor | FlexNet license servers are configured with case-sensitive names by default. If you specify a vendor to monitor in the License Statistics configuration file (xflicstat.cfg), make sure the vendor name uses the correct case. |
Sentinel LM/RMS | lsmon | Application vendor | To enable logging, you must configure the LSERVOPTS environment variable. You can change the directory where it looks for the configuration files by setting the LSDEFAULTDIR variable. An example is shown below. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ Session Manager\Environment] "LSDEFAULTDIR"="E:\\SentinelLM\\config" "LSERVOPTS"="-com 50 -l E:\\SentinelLM\\logs\\usage.log -f E:\\SentinelLM\\logs\\error.log" |
IBM LUM | i4blt | IBM website or your application vendor | You must do a full client installation of IBM LUM for License Statistics to work with IBM LUM. Copying the i4blt executable is not sufficient. |
Reprise License Manager (RLM) | rlmutil | Reprise website or your application vendor |
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LS-Dyna | lstc_qrun | Application vendor |
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LICMAN | licman20_appl | Application vendor |
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Dassault Systemes License Server (DSLS) | DSLicSrv | Application vendor | Only versions 6.211.1 (built on April 26, 2011) and newer are supported. In addition, the license server must be configured to use English; other languages are not currently supported. |
Mathematica License Manager (MathLM) | monitorlm | Application vendor |
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GNS | licstat | Application vendor | Using GNS version 2.0.19 and newer is recommended. Earlier versions have known issues with misreported license usage, which may result in License Statistics either failing to generate the usage data or generating inaccurate statistics, due to the erroneous reporting of license usage by the GNS license server. |
HASP | n/a | n/a | License Statistics can handle HASP logs with or without the OPEN_SESSIONS value set in the logfile. See Troubleshooting for more information about including OPEN_SESSIONS in the HASP server logfile. |
Felics | n/a | n/a | Only logs that are written using advanced logging are supported. |