How to Turn on a Report Log
SAMreport-Lite can read report logs that are accessible to the machine where
SAMreport-Lite runs—either by being located on the machine where
SAMreport-Lite runs or via a network share.
After you enable report logging with the following method, your vendor
daemon will be writing a report log from which you can generate a report
with SAMreport-Lite. Depending on your license usage, you should wait a few
hours or a few days before generating a report from this report log.
The options files and license files for each license server in a redundant license
server configuration must also be set up in order for report logging to continue
when the master changes. If a master license server goes down, the new master
will read its license and options files and write to its own report log.
To enable report logging for one of your Flexlm vendor daemons
1
Create an options file for the vendor daemon, if one doesn’t already
exist. 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
be:
C:\Program Files\Autodesk Network License Manager\vend.opt
2
In the options file, enter a line of the following form:
REP path \ ReportLogFileName
NOTE
The line + path \ ReportLogFileName cannot contain any spaces
unless the entire line is contained within quotation marks, as in: ”+ path \
ReportLogFileName”
The leading “+” character tells the vendor daemon to append output to
the report log each time the vendor daemon starts, rather than clearing
and overwriting the report log. There is no space after the “+” character.
Each vendor daemon must write its own report log. Do not direct
multiple vendor daemons to write to the same report log. SAMreport-Lite
(starting with v3.0d) will not process any report log that has been written
by more than one vendor daemon on more than one host.
3
Add the path and file name of the options file to the end of the DAEMON
line in the license file.
4
Restart the license server.
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