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FLEXnet Publisher’s LMAdmin. 6 August 2008. 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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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FLEXnet Publisher’sLMAdmin
6 August 2008
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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)
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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
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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
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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.
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Administration: System Information
The initial view in the Administration area is the read-only System Information tab
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Alert Configuration, continued
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Administration: Server Configuration
The Server Configuration tasks include setting HTTP port numbers and timeout values
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Server Configuration: License Server
Set LMAdmin port (same defaults as lmgrd)
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Administration: Vendor Daemon Configuration
By default, the Vendor Daemon Configuration tab shows vendor daemons the system knows about; click Administer to change settings
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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
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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)
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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)
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Dashboard: License Availability and Usage
If LMAdmin is serving licenses from more than one vendor, user selects the desired vendor from the list
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Activatable Licenses
The Activatable view shows information about trusted storage–based licenses (activatable, concurrent, and hybrid groups)
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Concurrent Licenses
The Concurrent view shows license file–based floating licenses, as well as concurrent and hybrid groups from trusted storage
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Usage Information
Concurrent usage information for each feature is displayed as “in-use (available)”, as in “5 (10)”
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Feature Usage by Host
If licenses are being used, click the Hosts link to see who has the licenses checked out
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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)
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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
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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
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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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