Before running the Usage Monitor, you must edit the configuration file, xflicstat.cfg, located in the License Statistics directory. This file specifies settings such as Usage Monitor output file paths, update intervals, and the host server information of the applications for which the Usage Monitor 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
• PHP FastCGI server port number
• HTTP base URL
• License Statistics data update interval
• Timeout setting for reader (Windows only)
• License server(s), which may be any of the license servers listed in section 3.1, Supported license serversNote that for LM-X or FLEXlm/FlexNet, 3 servers may be specified for HAL/redundant servers), and for IBM LUM 3 servers may be specified for clusters.
• Utility paths: lmxendutil (LM-X); lmutil (FLEXlm/FlexNet); i4blt (IBM LUM); lsmon (Sentinel LM/RMS); rlmutil (RLM); lstc_qrun (LS-Dyna)
• 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 Usage Monitor and denied requests log
• Alternative query tool

After you have configured the Usage Monitor, you are ready to start it as a service on Windows (see section 5.1, Starting and stopping the Usage Monitor on Windows) or run it as a daemon on Unix (see section 5.2, Starting and stopping the Usage Monitor on Unix).

See the following sections for considerations when configuring License Statistics.