You can use a report log to import usage information from a FlexNet license server into License Statistics. The steps for producing and importing a report log are described below and should be repeated for each vendor daemon instance you have.
Create an option file. For example:
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware License Server\Licenses\vmwarelm.opt |
Specify the location of the option file in your license file. For example:
SERVER this_host ANY 27000 |
In the option file, enable report logs. This will produce the log. For example:
REPORTLOG +"C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware License Server\Licenses\vmwarelm.log |
Import the log into License Statistics by placing it in the importlog directory. An example header of a report log is shown below:
# FLEXnet Licensing Report Log, 23 September, 2010 (10:01), "VMWARELM" on "virtualcenter" FLEXnet Licensing v10.8.6.0 build 54892 i86_n3 |
You should add TIMEOUTALL to your options file. See your FLEXlm end-user documentation for further information.
This problem is very common and has been around for a long time. It occurs because FLEXlm implements a TCP/IP timeout by default, which is up to 2 hours on Windows. The problem only occurs when an application exits in a "unclean" way and doesn't terminate the TCP/IP session properly (for example, if the application crashes).
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