User see who has a network license checked out

[mveldhoff]

We are currently using the network license model of MathCAD and wondering if there was a way a standard user could review who has the license checked out?

[LucMeekes]

Wouldn't (shouldn't) FlexLM provide that functionality?

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Luc

[Werner_E · Accepted solution]

LucMeekes wrote:

Wouldn't (shouldn't) FlexLM provide that functionality?

Probably not for the "standard user", I guess.

[dschenken]

Set a batch job on the license server to run every 5 minutes or so with Admin rights and write out the license status to a readily accessible area.

I used to do something like that (when PTC had rolled their own license server) to watch license usage during the day. The first users were starting at 5am; license use peaked at 11 am and never recovered after lunch.

[MartinHanak]

Hi,

if FLEXnet 10.8 is installed on your license server then you can use following steps:

• create empty directory on client machine, for example C:\tmp
• copy three files from license manager installation into C:\tmp (I guess that all your installations are 64-bit)
  license.dat
  license.res
  plpf_status.exe
• in C:\tmp create status.bat file containing following lines
  @echo off
  set PTC_D_LICENSE_FILE=C:\tmp\license.dat
  set PRO_LICENSE_RES=C:\tmp\license.res
  C:\tmp\plpf_status.exe -a
  pause
• create shortcut to status.bat file on the desktop
• run shortcut

If you are using FLEXnet 11 (lmadmin_ptc version) then I hope you can use similar steps. I do not have these version installed, therefore I am not sure.

MH

[MartinHanak]

Hi,

I just checked that in case of FLEXnet 11 (lmadmin_ptc version), the above mentioned procedure works, too.

MH

[traymond]

I just got off the phone with tech support, for me I can see the licenses thru the web browser on the client machine:

<license server>:8090/dashboard

License info is under concurrent/hosts

Note that the license server needs port 8090 opened on the firewall to access.