[hobbit] Monitoring FLEXnet License Manager

[Anna Jonna Armannsdottir]

On mið, 2008-04-30 at 11:28 +0000, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> In <1209549088.9955.43.camel at ripley.rhi.hi.is> Anna Jonna Armannsdottir <annaj at hi.is> writes:
> 
> >For those that have absolutely no
> >idea of what I am talking about, 
> >this is a license manager, that 
> >among other things, is used for 
> >Matlab, Abacus, Maple and other 
> >engineering software. It runs 
> >as a network daemon, usually 
> >on port 27000 or close to that. 
> 
> Wouldn't there be some commandline utility from the FLEXnet package that you 
> can use, e.g. to query the number of currently in-use licenses ? As long as it
> contacts the network daemon it can be used to check that the daemon is 
> running, and then you can probably make a custom test wrapper around the
> command line tool, and generate the Hobbit status based on this.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
> 
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Now there is a working version 1.0 of 
the Hobbit Monitor module for 
FLEXnet License Manager at The Shire: 

http://www.trantor.org/theshire/doku.php/monitors:flexlm 

Thanks to everybody for the 
help, hints and comments. 

-- 
Kindest Regards, Anna Jonna Ármannsdóttir,       %&   A: Because people read from top to bottom.
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University of Iceland.