[hobbit] Monitoring FLEXnet License Manager

[michael nemeth]

Ive been try out you script since you first post here and wasn't working 
fulling so I ran in the license.dat
problem and had to figure out what was going on but drop working on it.

Ok with the graphs understand now.


> On mið, 2008-07-09 at 07:48 -0400, michael nemeth wrote:
>   
>> OK, not about how to configure Flexlm, need a warning that as the
>> script stand now might not work as is; that is might not find the
>> license.dat file. You're right not hard  to find it and you'll be
>> getting error on running your script, that can't find license.dat .
>> So user might have to  add -c .
>>     
>
> The script assumes that the Flex License Manager configuration is 
> correctly set up. It is not the task of the Hobbit module to correct 
> mistakes or omissions in that. 
> So if the user can not get correct output from running the lmstat 
> program with the -a parameter, that is a Flex configuration problem 
> not the problem of the flexlm Hobbit module. 
>
> To make this easier for the user, the script can be run outside of 
> the Hobbit Monitor environment. The instructions in the script are: 
>
> # For testing and verifying: Run the script in a shell and       #
> # check that the  output is in /tmp/lic.txt                      #
>
> As you suggest,the script can be changed so that it gives a warning 
> if lmstat can not find its information. I will post a patch soon. 
> Thanks for the suggestion. 
>
>   
>> Trying to understand what this does.
>> For MatLab host in bb-host:
>> "10.0.0.10 host.matlab.net # TRENDS:*,flexlm:flexlm|flexlm1|flexlm2|flexlm3 " 
>> Gives graph flexlm and graph flexml1 ?
>>     
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>   
>> For Maple host in bb-host:
>> "10.0.0.111 host.maple.net # TRENDS:*,flexlm:flexlm|flexlm1|flexlm2|flexlm3 " 
>> while this gives only graph flexlm2 ?
>> Is that correct?
>>     
> Yes that is correct. 
>
> For both cases, it tries to generate all graphs, but if there is 
> e.g. no Abacus License Manager on the server, then there 
> will be no graph in flexlm3. 
>
> Take a look at the hobbitgraph.cfg.inc configuration file. There you can
> see, that the flexlm test fetches the MATLAB variable data in the rrd
> file. 
>
> Any way, the module will be rewritten in version 2.0 so that the
> configuration in hobbitgraph will be much better and easier for the 
> user. 
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