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  • Page 1 SAMreport-Lite ™ P p p ’ UIDE February 2005...
  • Page 2 UTODESK RADEMARKS RADEMARKS Autodesk, and AutoCAD are registered Globetrotter, Macrovision, FLEXlm, FLEXbill, trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., in the U.S.A. Flexible License Manager, and GTlicensing and/or other countries. are registered trademarks or trademarks of Macrovision Corporation. All other brand and product names...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents Chapter 1 Quick Start to SAMreport-Lite........1 How to Obtain a License File..............2 How to Install Java Runtime Environment..........2 How to Install SAMreport-Lite..............3 How to Create and Set Up an Options File..........3 How to Use SAMreport-Lite..............4 How to Upgrade to SAMreport..............5 Chapter 2 Introduction..............7 Intended Audience...................8...
  • Page 4 Finding the Version of the Vendor Daemon and lmswitchr..................26 Rotating a Report Log with lmswitchr...........27 Avoiding Corruption in Report Logs.............27 Chapter 7 SAMreport-Lite Error Messages........29 ii | Contents...

  • Page 5: Chapter 1 Quick Start To Samreport-Lite

    Quick Start to SAMreport-Lite In this chapter This section gives you step-by-step instructions for installing ™ SAMreport-Lite on your system. If you have any questions How to Obtain a License File How to Install Java Runtime that are not addressed in this Quick Start section, consult the Environment How to Install SAMreport-Lite appropriate sections in this User’s Guide.

  • Page 6: How To Obtain A License File

    How to Install Java Runtime Environment SAMreport-Lite requires Java Runtime Environment 1.4.2_04. To install Java Runtime Environment 1 Insert the Autodesk product CD into your CD-ROM drive. 2 On the Media Browser, click the Install tab. 3 Click Network Deployment.

  • Page 7: How To Install Samreport-Lite

    SAMreport-Lite to create report logs. NOTE Complete instructions for setting up an Options file are located in the Autodesk Network Licensing Guide. You can access the guide from your product’s Media Browser or in the Help system. To create and set up an Options file 1 In a text editor, create a file called adskflex.opt.

  • Page 8: How To Use Samreport-Lite

    Manager is restarted. (It is recommended that you use this option so that you retain a history of log entries.) Path names that contain spaces must be enclosed in quotation marks. For example, the syntax “ ” REPORTLOG + c:\My Documents\report.rl means that a report log named report.rl is located in the folder c:\My Documents.

  • Page 9: How To Upgrade To Samreport

    For more information about generating reports, see “Basics of Generating a Report” “Usage Summary Report”. How to Upgrade to SAMreport The full-featured SAMreport product provides additional types of reports and options, and includes additional features such as command line batch processing.

  • Page 11: Chapter 2 Introduction

    Introduction In this chapter This chapter contains introductory information about license management, a description of SAMreport-Lite and explanatory Intended Audience About This Manual information about this guide. What is License Management? What is SAMreport-Lite ?

  • Page 12: Intended Audience

    Intended Audience SAMreport-Lite and this manual are intended for use by system ™ ® administrators, system analysts, and managers who use FLEXlm license management to produce usage reports for your software. About This Manual This manual is divided into five chapters and two appendixes: “Quick Start to SAMreport-Lite”...

  • Page 13: What Is Samreport-Lite

    What is SAMreport-Lite ? SAMreport-Lite, a member of the GLOBEtrotter family of Software Asset Management (SAM) Solutions, is a report generator that helps you monitor the usage of applications that use FLEXlm. SAMreport-Lite complements FLEXlm by providing a graphical user interface (GUI) from which to run usage reports.

  • Page 15: Chapter 3 Basics Of Generating A Report

    Basics of Generating a Report In this chapter This chapter shows you how to generate a Usage Summary report using the SAMreport-Lite user interface. You’ll find a Generate a Usage Summary Report detailed explanation of the report in “Usage Summary Report”...

  • Page 16: Generate A Usage Summary Report

    Generate a Usage Summary Report ™ Using SAMreport-Lite you can generate a network license-usage report, ® ® called Usage Summary, for Autodesk software that uses FLEXlm licensing technology. To generate a Usage Summary report from the SAMreport-Lite interface 1 Start SAMreport-Lite.
  • Page 17 file. Type the file name base in the file selection browser. Click the Save button. NOTE Do not type a file extension (such as .txt). SAMreport-Lite adds the appropriate file extension based on the file type that you chose. 6 Specify how you want the report data summarized and arranged. 7 Specify the start and end dates for the report output.

  • Page 19: Chapter 4 Usage Summary Report

    Usage Summary Report In this chapter A Usage Summary report produces textual output that summarizes the usage statistics of each feature in the report Output Arrangement and Detail log(s). The output of a Usage Summary report can be saved to files in HTML, text, or RIF format. The header of a Usage Summary report provides a summary of information about the report log and the parameters of the report: FLEXIm License Usage Report date time...

  • Page 20: Output Arrangement And Detail

    Output Arrangement and Detail The Usage Summary report shows license usage by feature. To create a report that shows more detail about the nature of license usage, you can use a combination of: Summary period Breakdown category Sort order specification Feature description Using these controls, you can decompose the usage of each feature into useful groupings according to your particular reporting requirements.

  • Page 21: Chapter 5 Report Input And Output

    Report Input and Output In this chapter You can create reports using one or more report logs from ® one or more FLEXlm vendor daemons, as long as each report Specifying Input Report Logs Displaying Output to the log is written by a single vendor daemon running on a single Viewer Window Navigating the SAMreport-Lite host.

  • Page 22: Specifying Input Report Logs

    Specifying Input Report Logs The only valid input files are FLEXlm report logs. These report logs may have been produced by redundant license servers or distributed license servers, or they may simply be archived report logs from one or more license servers. ™...

  • Page 23: Selecting Output Type And Output File Names

    page by moving the scrollbar at the right margin of the Viewer. A navigation toolbar and report progress indicator are displayed at the top of the Viewer. You can display different pages or output formats of a report in one of three ways: Click the page name in the left side of the window.

  • Page 24: Output Formats

    Output Formats Usage Summary reports are available in the following formats: Text. This format is suitable for printing and reading, but not for parsing. HTML. This format is suitable for posting textual reports to a web page. Report Interchange Format (RIF). This format is a simple, flexible, plain text format that is designed to pass tabular information between the report generator and another program, such as a spreadsheet.

  • Page 25: Data Filters

    Data Filters Some of the information contained in the report log is subject to filtering. Two filters can be specified for a Usage Summary report—feature and user. Multiple filter categories for one report are applied with a Boolean AND operation—all the specified conditions must be satisfied. If a report is filtered on user==User1 and feature==Feature2, the resulting report contains usage of Feature2 by User1.

  • Page 26: Setting Start And End Dates For A Report

    time, an error is introduced into the UTC timestamps recorded in the report log. The time zone on the machine where SAMreport-Lite is running is set incorrectly. Even if the clock time looks correct, the time zone may not be set correctly.

  • Page 27: Chapter 6 Enabling And Managing Report Logs

    Enabling and Managing Report Logs ™ In this chapter To use SAMreport-Lite , you need one or more report log How to Turn on a Report files that are accessible to SAMreport-Lite. Each report log Logreport log fileenable enable must be written by a single vendor daemon on a single host. a report log Size of the Report Logreport (Vendor daemons running on more than one server must...

  • Page 28: How To Turn On A Report Log

    The options file is a plain text file with any name (we recommend an .opt extension). For example, for a vendor daemon called vend, the options file could C:\Program Files\Autodesk Network License Manager\vend.opt 2 In the options file, enter a line of the following form: REPORTLOG + path \ ReportLogFileName NOTE The line + path \ ReportLogFileName cannot contain any spaces unless the entire line is contained within quotation marks, as in: ”+ path \...

  • Page 29: Size Of The Report Log

    5 When you change or create an options file, you must restart the license server in order for those changes to take effect. Rereading the license file is not sufficient. Size of the Report Log A good estimate of the size of your report logs (from FLEXlm pre-v5 vendor daemons) is 100 bytes per checkout or checkin, or about 20-25% bigger than the portion of the debug log pertaining to that vendor daemon.

  • Page 30: Finding The Version Of The Vendor Daemon And Lmswitchr

    4 Archive (and probably compress) a report log when it is no longer needed to run reports. You must rotate a report log at the following times: If you move the license server to a new machine. If SAMreport-Lite detects that the license server hostid changes in a report log used to generate a report, it will stop processing the report log and include only the data preceding the hostid change in the report.

  • Page 31: Rotating A Report Log With Lmswitchr

    Find the version of the vendor daemon. To find the version of a vendor daemon, start lmtools, the FLEXlm utility. Select the Utilities tab where you can find the version of FLEXlm that is built into a file. Enter or browse to the vendor daemon and click the Find Version button.
  • Page 32 with your software vendors for the newest available versions of their vendor daemons. In pre v 5.1 vendor daemons, rereads, and shutdowns could possibly introduce corruption, particularly if the server is busy. With these older vendor daemons, the best policy is to issue reread or shutdown when no licenses are checked out, if possible.

  • Page 33: Samreport-Lite Error Messages

    Indicates an unexplained problem in (id 54)(minor 0) feature key SAMreport-Lite. This error should be reported to Autodesk . Error: A reportlog is missing (-9) file line no Report log contains a gap of significant (id 40)(minor 0) feature key duration between an end (or lmswitchr) and the following start event.
  • Page 35 Index report logs..18 report log file..17–18, 21, 24–25 combining report logs..17 enable..24 from redundant servers..18 manage..25 size..25 time zones..21 date formats, for reports..22 using multiple..17 reports..13, 17, 22 combining report logs..17 date formats..22 enable a report log..24 errors/warnings..13 start and end dates..22 using multiple report logs..17 rotate report log..25 formats, date..22...

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