If you are installing License Statistics for use with Sentinel LM/RMS, and lsmon is not working, you should:
License Statistics may not work as expected if you see an error similar to the following in your Sentinel license manager debug log:
Sentinel LM: Error[0xc8001008]: Unable to talk to host "kapur-lic1". Communication problems??
Contacting Sentinel LM server on host "kapur-lic1"] Press Enter to continue . . .
This is not a License Statistics error, but rather indicates that your monitoring client is unable to communicate with your license server; for example, the lsmon query tool and license server versions may be incompatible. To resolve this problem, please contact your application vendor.