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jwagh17-Peridot
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July 23, 2021
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Metric Tool for Creo Floating Licensing usage?

  • July 23, 2021
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Hi,

We would like to know if there is a way to get metrics on floating Creo license usage. For instance, max number of licenses used at any given time in the last year, average number of licenses being used, which licenses have not been used, etc. Information like this could help us get a better understanding of our license usage to determine what we really need and what we should be buying.

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KenFarley
KenFarley21-Topaz II
21-Topaz II
July 23, 2021

You'd be better off looking for "FlexLM license tracking" or some such. I've not seen anything specific to Creo to do this, despite some inquiries in the past. There are likely software companies that have management tools of this sort to determine return on investment for licenses and that sort of thing. I'm betting you'll be able to track things going forward in time, but any past usage is probably not something that can be quantified.

 

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    BenLoosli23-Emerald III
    23-Emerald III
    July 23, 2021

    Flexera, makers of FlexNet, do have a software monitoring package that will read Flexnet generated binary data files and provide those reports.

    We looked at it years ago when the company was named MacroVision and the pricing was enough that we quickly dropped any plans of using it to monitor our license usage. At that company, we had 50+ seats of Wildfire and 25 seats of Unigraphics at the time. Maybe if you are a global organization with over 500 licenses you can afford the monitoring package.

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      jwagh17-PeridotAuthor
      17-Peridot
      July 23, 2021

      We are using poor-man's monitoring. I have a windows task run a batch file every hour to write the PTC-Status to a txt file. I then use another batch file that reads those logs and parses them into a spreadsheet which I can review. It isn't great, but I was hoping for something better.

      KenFarley
      KenFarley21-Topaz II
      21-Topaz II
      July 26, 2021

      Your method is likely the one I'd use if we were being asked to track usage, since we only have five licenses being shared. I'd imagine it's kind of klunky, given you've got to leave  a scheduled process running all the time and it's going to keep accumulating more and more data as time goes on, etc. Then again, when you've written your own batch files to do this kind of thing it's relatively easy to add to the capabilities of the thing. Even if it's in the amazingly cryptic syntax of DOS batch file commands. They look like insanely strong passwords required by a vindictive IT department.

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      BenLoosli23-Emerald III
      23-Emerald III
      July 24, 2021

      Look back through the old PTC/User meeting files. Around 2003-2004 there was a presentation on CADadmin tools that a user had written a bunch of scripts and such to do the reporting of licenses. I found the install executable in my archives, but not the presentation or any documentation.

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      jwagh17-PeridotAuthor
      17-Peridot
      July 25, 2021

      Are they scripts that can be shared? Is it batch, which I can read and understand?

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