flexnet publisher’s lmadmin

© 2008 Acresso Software | Company Confidential

FLEXnet Publisher’sLMAdmin

6 August 2008

2© 2008 Acresso Software | Company Confidential

Introducing LMAdmin

LMAdmin offers a significant milestone in the evolution of FLEXnet Publisher by introducing a graphical user interface that provides a number of server administration improvements around usability, efficiency, and capability

Benefits

Improved Usability and Efficiency Configuration of vendor daemon and license manager

Greater Manageability Alerts and status monitoring (new capability)


Additional LMAdmin Benefits

Support multiple vendor daemons with one LMAdmin process (same as lmgrd)

Perform all server configuration and most administration functions from the GUI

Import existing license files without editing

Keep configuration options persistent


LMAdmin Key Capabilities

• GUI buttons replace command line utilities– Stop Server and Reread License Files

• Direct configuration Vendor Daemon and LMAdmin– License server port number; vendor daemon path and port; and

three-server redundant ports can be configured without any edits to the license files

• Configurable Alerts– Set up LMAdmin to issue alerts to warn of potential problems

• License expiry, no available licenses, or vendor daemon status

• License rights status display– Information is divided into Activatable and Concurrent information – Activatable shows licenses in trusted storage– Concurrent shows license file-based floating licenses as well as

concurrent and hybrid groups from trusted storage


UI Layout: Dashboard and Administration

The LMAdmin UI is divided into two main areas, Dashboard and Administration

Dashboard shows alerts, license availability and usage; initially doesn’t require a logon

Administration view is for adding licenses and vendor daemons, viewing logs, adding users, etc.


Administration: System Information

The initial view in the Administration area is the read-only System Information tab


Alert Configuration, continued


Administration: Server Configuration

The Server Configuration tasks include setting HTTP port numbers and timeout values


Server Configuration: License Server

Set LMAdmin port (same defaults as lmgrd)


Administration: Vendor Daemon Configuration

By default, the Vendor Daemon Configuration tab shows vendor daemons the system knows about; click Administer to change settings


Vendor Daemon Configuration

After clicking Administer, can stop daemon or reread license files; specify log file name; specify license file and vendor daemon location and port to use; also whether to use date-based versions


Dashboard

Dashboard view enables viewer to see and address alerts, check license availability and usage for a particular vendor

By default the Dashboard is visible to anyone who can access the main page, but the administrator can restrict access to those who log in (with either a User account or Administrator account)


Dashboard: Alerts

An alert is either Critical (red hexagon) or Important (yellow triangle); click an icon to see alerts of that type

Click an alert to see detailsor jump to configuration page

Click the close button [X] to delete the alert (alerts don’t vanish when the alert condition changes)


Dashboard: License Availability and Usage

If LMAdmin is serving licenses from more than one vendor, user selects the desired vendor from the list


Activatable Licenses

The Activatable view shows information about trusted storage–based licenses (activatable, concurrent, and hybrid groups)


Concurrent Licenses

The Concurrent view shows license file–based floating licenses, as well as concurrent and hybrid groups from trusted storage


Usage Information

Concurrent usage information for each feature is displayed as “in-use (available)”, as in “5 (10)”


Feature Usage by Host

If licenses are being used, click the Hosts link to see who has the licenses checked out


How LMAdmin Differs from lmgrd and lmutil

LMAdmin is designed to have equivalents to lmutil tools, where appropriate, and to be compatible with them: Dashboard view replaces lmstat, Server Config and Vendor Daemon Config screens replace some lmdown usage, other admin functionality replaces lmreread and lmswitchr

No equivalents to lmborrow, lmdiag, lmpath, lmver

Some lmdown and lmremove usage requires agreeable settings in LMAdmin (-allowStopServer and-allowLicenseReclaim)


Compatibility

LMAdmin is compatible with version 9.2 and later for vendor daemons and FLEXenabled applications

LMAdmin is not immediately compatible with FLEXnet Manager; updated agent will be released with v12


LMAdmin and Web Services

Also provides a web service interface for interacting with LMAdmin

Toolkit ships with an “alerter” example, including source code, that sends e-mail regarding alerts reported by LMAdmin


Evaluating LMAdmin

LMAdmin is released and available for evaluation

No installer for LMAdmin; just needs to be copied and possibly uncompressed to a new directory (just not in an existing license server directory); ships with demo vendor daemon installed

The License Administration Guide and LMAdmin Installation Guide explains the details

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