When deciding upon a tool for tracking license usage, there are several important considerations to take into account. Perhaps one of the most important of these is license manager support.
A good solution will have the flexibility to monitor thousands of different software applications. Naturally, many of these will fall under FlexLM, FlexNet Manager, IBM LUM, and Sentinel RMS (which typically are supported by most license usage tracking solutions). But what about the others? There are a number of license managers out there that are not necessarily so popular (and which not all solutions can track), but nonetheless prevalent in use. This would include, for example, Dassault Systemes License Server (DSLS).
Their licenses can be quite expensive, so there really is no option for not tracking them. On the other hand, using several tools for tracking different license managers is not feasible. What is needed is one license management solution torule them all.
Then there is also the question of real-time monitoring vs. importing log files. Whether you will need one or the other very much depends on the license manager itself. However, because many of the most popular managers do both, you will more than likely want a solution that supports real-time monitoringandlog importation. Log importation also comes in handy when you want to view usage statistics from data that was gathered from remote license servers running on separate networks, or just even analyse old data that was gathered years ago.
By now you might be wondering if there is a solution out there that can actually handle the above-mentioned requirements. The answer is yes, and it’s License Statistics .
License Statistics does both real-time monitoring as well as log importation, including encrypted report logs, denied request logs, pay-per-use log files, and other report log files.
And as for license manager support,there’s no one on the market that does it better. License Statistics currently supports the following list of license managers. Please note this list is continuously being expanded.
- LM-X License Manager
- FLEXlm/FlexNet
- IBM LUM
- Reprise License Manager (RLM)
- Sentinel LM/RMS
- beta_lm
- LS-DYNA
- LICMAN
- Mathematica License Manager (MathLM)
- Dassault Systemes License Server (DSLS)
- GNS
- HASP License Manager
- SmartPlant License Manager (SPLM)
- RSoft
- Felics
- Sentinel Hardware Keys
- CodeCollaborator
For more information on gathering type (real-time or imported) for any of the listed license managers, please see our documentation, Supported License Managers .
On top of that, License Statistics also lets you track license usage for custom applications by using an XML file .
So… how many license managers canyoucurrently track and monitor usage for?
