[hobbit] Monitoring FLEXnet License Manager

[Anna Jonna Armannsdottir]

On þri, 2008-07-08 at 07:33 -0400, michael nemeth wrote:
> What I meant; same script but  for the "magic"  LMSTATDIR=  line
> 
> Also, while I can get what you did to work for me easy,  looks like
> your
> "set-up" is different than mine I have to do /wherethelmstatis -a
> -c /wherethelicensefile is.
> I THINK I remember you can set wherethelicensefile  in and
> environmental variable .
> so this becomes /wherethelmstatis -a

I am not an expert on the Flex License Manager, so my 
answers are not complete. I have tested this on 3 license 
servers, Red Hat 4, Red Hat 5, and Solaris 9. All have different 
license manager configurations, but the flexlm Hobbit module 
works with all of them just out of the box, but that is probably 
du to the fact that it is the same person administrating them. 

Anyway, the lmstat program in 2 of those installations, is in the 
same directory as the license file. In the third installation it 
is in an environment variable. In all cases the Flex LM programs, 
can easily find the license file. 
In all cases the user only has to change the path to the lmstat 
command. 
I feel we are approaching the topic "HOWTO configure Flex License
Manager", and that is not my area. 

> Actually what I use is: /wherethelmstatis -a -c port at system that is:
> wherethelmstatis -a -c 22777 at mobile2  (my  mathlab host) 
> Which is nice for me since I can "contact" different license server
> from one host! 
 <just touching the HOWTO topic>
To get commication with the license manager through lmstat you 
need to specify -c license.txt 
This file contains the SERVER line from the license file. 

> If your lmstat returns Licence server Status: 22777 at mobile2
> (mine returns License server Status:
> 22777 at mobile2.22777@ntw,22777 at sectcfs1 ;
> hope this isn't going to be a problem)
Try it and return with the results. :) 

> Also:
> "10.0.0.10 host.example.net # TRENDS:*,flexlm:flexlm|flexlm1|flexlm2|
> flexlm3 " 
> Is it true that on the matlab host you get just the flexlm and flexlm1
> while on the maple host you only get
?

> I'm being very inquisitive because Im planning on post in my
> clearcasse and mutlisite scripts
> soon (don't use flexlm)and want to make sure I handle issues and am
> using you script and post as an example. 
OK

> Aslo I may adapt to script to work like my clearcasse and mutlisite
> scripts;
> they run on my hobbit server since the clearlicense will return the
> info from where the
> license server running and I put the info in a pseudo host 0.0.0.0
> licenses .
I am trying hard to guess, at what you are talking about. 

> I might what to do that with the flexlm too, so want to understand it
> well!
> I might not since I've 30 different instances of  flexlm !
And what are you using to monitor them now? 

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