Vault 2012 and License Auditing

[aaronrosenberg]

I currently moved my License Server to another subnet. I don't know if this had any affect, but I see that ADMS has checked out all available licenses. Is there a way to figure out who specifically is using these licenses or if there is a problem with ADMS grabbing to many? Any help is appreciative.  If its any help, the SQL Server is on its own machine, and the license server is seperate from the ADMS as well.

[r.smith1]

Hi Aaron,

The ADMS VLOGS show who is signed into Vault.  LMTOOLS will show you Administrator has pulled the licenses for Vault if you perform a status inquiry in LMTOOLS. 

There are third party alternatives to show who is using licenses, and I believe you can also use the API to write your own custom application to show who is pulling licenses (logged into Vault from Vault).  To find out more about the API, I recommend asking the customizations discussion Group.  http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Vault-Customization/bd-p/301

[aaronrosenberg]

Thanks, can you recommend a 3rd party tool. I found a script, but it is in german so I am having dificulty figuring it out. 

[Maxim-CADman77]

To my mind Vlog*.txt gives no reliable info regarding what users are currently hold the license (manual analysis usually shows that threre are more license in use than we have). The problem is -it contains 20 times less returned lines than aquired lines.

Consequently "that German script" (http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Vault/Who-has-a-licence/m-p/3347533#M40923) not really gives the answer as well. It only shows when somebody got license.

If anybody knows the 3rd party software please give us a note!

Thanks in advance.