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. FLEXlm v5+
daemons generate report log files that are approximately 25% of the size of
pre-v5 report log files.
Flushing Data to a Report Log
For efficiency, the license server periodically flushes usage events to the report
log. The frequency of these flushes depends on the activity level of the license
server as well as on the version and configuration of the vendor daemon. To
run a report with up-to-the-minute usage information, before running the
report, manually flush data from the buffer to the report log by causing the
vendor daemon to reread its license file with the FLEXlm utility, lmreread.
You can issue an lmreread command by clicking the Reread License File button
in the Stop/Reread tab of lmtools.
Managing Report Logs
Remember that you can produce a report from multiple report logs as long as
each report log is written by a single vendor daemon running on a single
machine. (Vendor daemons running on more than one redundant server must
write to their own report logs.) Therefore, to keep the size of report logs
manageable, you should regularly close out a current report log and begin to
write to a new one. This process is known as rotating report logs. A
recommended method for rotating report logs is provided later in this section.
You may want to automate the process of managing each license server’s
report logs. The following steps can be performed on a regular basis:
1
Rotate a report log. To avoid corruption in your report logs, we
recommend that you rotate your logs with the FLEXlm utility, lmswitchr
(found in the lmtools interface).
2
Update the vendor daemon’s options file(s).
3
Move the older report log to a designated location.
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