It's already written into the flexlm.
Look at the html files in the netsetup folder. Check the switches in the options file. You can log everything.
To read the logs however, you'll need to get samreport lite from globetrotter (you'll have to allow port 88 if your behind a
firewall to get at it)(btw, it's free, you just have to get it???). Check out the acad_netguide.chm file for information on getting
the samreport lite.
hth
jason martin
assistant idiot
frankfurt-short-bruza
www.fsb-ae.com/acadnetwork/acadnetworkfaq.htm
"Charles Prettyman" wrote in message news:C42B3AA9F3CBEF0807B8B2A4A6BA0659@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> If, for some reason, you own more licenses than you have people, it might
> not make much sense to go the ADLM route. Why you wouild intentionlly buy
> more licenses than you have people is your business, I don't want to know
> about it.
>
> We have shrunk a bit over the last few months, so we actually own one
> superfluous license. I'm still going ADLM, because it makes no sense to me
> to change. The nice thing is that I do not need to worry about putting ACAD
> on the bosses machines for them to try to learn, and I can tell them to hire
> two more people if they want, without uincurring the software cost of an
> extra license, etc.
>
> I have this suspicion that if my office were down to six users, we could
> comfortably own only 5 licenses. OK, maybe once a week we would need 6 for
> about an hour. The problem is, I don't know how to prove that. Maybe, in
> my spare time, I'll teach myself enough application development skills to
> write a little program that polls the lan every 10 minutes to see how many
> instances of ACAD are running, and logs the data. Flex LM will tell you how
> many licenses are in use if you ask it, but it does not log the data.
>
> If someone who already has the skills to do so wants to create that little
> app, I'd love a copy.
>
>
>
>
> "Jim Lipsey" wrote in message
> news:343AD9E87BBF03A4A6F98266FBC5F7A2@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > Our firm has just 6 CAD stations currently running R14, each w/ a
> stand-alone license. We'll be
> > upgrading to ADT3 before 01/2002, so if we begin using the LM I guess
> that'd be the time to
> > start. With all the confusion in the newsgroup, though, I'm not convinced
> that using either LM
> > would benefit a network as small as ours.
> >
> > Is there a threshold below which is doesn't make sense to use ADLM?
> >
> >
> > David Lewis wrote in message ...
> > >We are considering switching from stand alone licenses to ADLM and I was
> wondering what the
> > pro's and con's are from both the users and admin's point of view.
> >
> >
> >
>
>