Tracking individual features of a suite

[jprizzo]

Hello,

After almost 15 years using AutoCAD with FlexLM, we are just dipping our toes into Suites.  On the surface, these suites seem like a great deal, but digging a little deeper and they don't really seem to offer much to a shop that already has network licensing in place.  When we need more AutoCAD licenses, we buy more AutoCAD licenses.  When we need more 3ds Max licenses, we buy more of them.  Now that suites are entering the picture, it is totally obscusing our usage data.  It seems to me that these Suites are going to force us to overbuy software because all we will know is that we are out of "suite" licenses without being able to identify which product we actually need. 

Can someone please tell me, when a suite license is being used on the server, how can I determine which pieces of software are actually pulling that license?  

Jon

[TravisNave]

Under the status enquiry of the Suite license that says how many in use, it should then break down the usage by product release further down the list.

[jprizzo]

It breaks down by “version” (ie: 2013, 2014, etc) but I don’t see a breakdown by product (AutoCAD, Civil 3D, etc.)  Am I missing something?

[TravisNave]

Hmmm.... You might be right about that.  Can you post an example of your status enquiry? 

It's possible that it might also be listed in your debug log file too.

[DarrenP]

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@Anonymous_ wrote:

It breaks down by “version” (ie: 2013, 2014, etc) but I don’t see a breakdown by product (AutoCAD, Civil 3D, etc.)  Am I missing something?

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no you are not

it is the way autodesk structures their license file for the suites