Monitoring an SLM Server

SLM provides tooling to monitor license usage. Keep in mind that this monitoring information is SLM Server related. If an SLM Cluster contains more SLM Servers you must combine the monitoring information of those servers to get insight in the actual license usage.

The syntax of the commands to retrieve monitoring information from the specified server: SlmCmd -mon… <host> [-port <port number>]

-montts: Retrieve monitoring totals.
-mondts: Retrieve monitoring details.
-monsts: Retrieve monitoring statistics.

Monitoring a license server provides you information about which licenses, and how many licenses, are used by whom. The totals, argument -montts, only provides an idea of how many licenses are currently being used. The details, argument -mondts, provides license information about individual users and servers.

How to receive detailed statistics from the license server orbit is shown in this example:

C:\>SlmCmd -mondts orbit
Retrieving monitoring data from license-server.
        License-server host     : orbit
        License-server port     : 6005
        Monitoring type         : Details
Result:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<details
        date=" Fri Apr 06 16:34:28 2007"
        host="orbit"
        port="6005"
        mode="master">
        <desktopLicense
                count="0"
        />
        <concurrentLicense
                count="1">
                <product
                        id="6013"
                />
        </concurrentLicense>
        <userLicense
                count="1">
                <product
                        id="6017"
                />
        </userLicense>
        <serverLicense
                count="1">
                <product
                        id="6079"
                        count="1">
                        <user
                                user="d:/baan"
                                desktop="cnl08447vm"
                        />
                </product>
        </serverLicense>
</details>