Before running License Statistics, you must edit the configuration file, xflicstat.cfg, located in the License Statistics directory. This file specifies settings such as License Statistics output file paths, update intervals, and the host server information of the applications for which License Statistics will gather statistics.

For Windows, the configuration file opens automatically upon completion of the License Statistics installation. You can also open the file at any time from the License Statistics program group (Start > Program Files > X-Formation > License Statistics > Configuration).

Replace the existing information in the configuration file with your site-specific information as needed. The configuration file includes instructions that describe each setting in the file. Settings include:

• Installation directory path
• MySQL server, port and login settings
• License Statistics database name
  
• Apache server port number
• HTTP base URL
• Enabling and setting file paths to use Apache SSL
• Web server port
• License Statistics data update interval
• Timeout setting for reader (Windows only)
• License server(s), which may be any of the license servers listed in Supported license servers
  (Note: For LM-X, FLEXlm/FlexNet, and beta_lm, three servers can be specified for HAL/redundant servers. For IBM LUM, three servers can be specified for clusters.)
• Utility paths:
  - lmxendutil (LM-X)
  - lmutil (FLEXlm/FlexNet)
  - i4blt (IBM LUM)
  - lsmon and lsmon parameters (Sentinel LM/RMS)
  - rlmutil (RLM)
  - beta_lm_stat (BETA LM)
  - licman20_appl (LICMAN)
  - lstc_qrun (LS-Dyna)
  - DSLicSrv (Dassault)
  - licstat (GNS)
  - monitorlm (MathLM)
• Make users and hosts anonymous in database and HTML output (normally used to protect users for legal reasons, as is required in some countries)
• Feature versioning (automatically merge version number with feature name for all features) for License Statistics and denied requests log
• Alternative query tool
• Denied requests log feature versioning (IBM LUM)
• RPC server port
  

After you have configured License Statistics, you are ready to start it as a service on Windows (see Starting and stopping License Statistics on Windows) or run it as a daemon on Unix (see Starting and stopping License Statistics on Unix).

See the following sections for considerations when configuring License Statistics.