The following steps are designed to get X-Formation's License Statistics up and running in 10 minutes or less, installing on Linux with a FLEXlm/FlexNet server. 

Important: When upgrading License Statistics to a new version, be sure to make a backup (see Backing up the database) before uninstalling License Statistics. All files will be deleted from the License Statistics installation directory during the uninstallation.

Step 1: Extract the download file contents.

Extract the License Statistics zip file contents. Use the /usr/xflicstat directory to limit configuration changes to those given in Step 3.

IMPORTANT: You can install License Statistics on any machine, not necessarily the license server.

Step 2: Activate the license.

Note: License activation is not necessary for trial. If you run License Statistics in evaluation purposes, please continue to Step 3.

After the installation is complete, activate your License Statistics license as described in Activating a License Statistics License.

Note that you must re-activate your license whenever you upgrade your license or renew your maintenance.

Step 3: Configure License Statistics for your site.

Open /usr/xflicstat/xflicstat.cfg in a text editor such as Notepad, and make the following changes:

• Change the setting for UPDATE_INTERVAL from 10 minutes to 1 minute, to generate statistics every minute. This setting will let you quickly confirm that License Statistics is running normally, which you'll do in Step 6. (After you verify that License Statistics is running normally, you should change this setting to a larger value.)

• Uncomment one of the FLEXNET_SERVER lines and enter the information for the server you want to monitor in the format \[port\]@host, where port is optional (leave blank to use the default port) and host is the name or IP address of the license server. For example, FLEXNET_SERVER = 27000@host1. (If you need to monitor more than one server, you can specify additional servers in the same manner later.)

• Uncomment the LMUTIL_PATH line.

• Save and close the configuration file.

Step 4: Ensure you have the latest lmutil version.

You must use lmutil v9.2 or newer with License Statistics. (You can check your lmutil version on Windows in the file Properties.) You can request a download of the newest lmutil version from http://www.globes.com/support/fnp_utilities_download.htm.

Step 5: Start the service.

Run the Usage Monitor as a daemon by entering the following command from a Linux command line:

./xflicstat --b /path/configfile

where /path/configfile is the full path to the Usage Monitor configuration file; for example:

./xflicstat --b ./xflicstat.cfg

If you execute this command outside of the License Statistics installation directory, you must designate the path using an additional command line variable; for example:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/xflicstat/" /usr/xflicstat/xflicstat -b /usr/xflicstat/xflicstat.cfg

Step 6: Test that the Usage Monitor is running normally.

• A couple of minutes after starting the service, review the log file (/usr/xflicstat/log/xflicstat.log) and ensure it contains no FAIL or WARNING lines. Output similar to the following indicates the service is running normally:

\[2006-11-02 13:44:50\] Ready for querying...
\[2006-11-02 13:44:50\] Starting monitor of @127.0.0.1\!

• Check results in your browser by going to http://localhost:80. The first time you access the License Statistics web interface, your login information is set to username = admin, password = admin.

• If you don't see the results check if License Statistics web server port specified in the configuration file, which defaults to port 80, is not busy. You can specify a different port as described in this article.

Now you've successfully installed, started, and tested the License Statistics Usage Monitor.

If you have problems you cannot solve using this installation guide, contact us at support@x-formation.com. Please include both your configuration file and your log file in your email to help us resolve the problem.