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Enabling Report Logging

Follow the instructions in this section to enable vendor daemon report logging. Each report log that FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications processes must contain usage data written by a single vendor daemon running on a single machine.

To enable report logging, for each instance of a vendor daemon:

  1. Create an options file (or edit the existing options file) to include the following line—
    • REPORTLOG +path_to_report_log
    • —where path_to_report_logis the full path name to the report log, and the filename component of path_to_report_log is of the form vendor``.rl.
    • The leading “+” character tells the vendor daemon to append to that file each time it starts, rather than clearing and overwriting the file. There is no space after the “+” character.

    • Refer to the License Administration Guide (part of the FlexNet Publisher documentation set) for information about creating and editing options files. The License Administration Guide is available from the Flexera Software download site, FlexNet Operations On Demand (https://flexerasoftware.subscribenet.com).

  2. Save the options file in the form vendor``.opt, where vendor is the name of the vendor daemon.
  3. Add the options file path to the VENDOR line in the license file. For example:
    • VENDOR vendor options=options_file_path
    • Surround options_file_path with double quotes if it contains spaces.
  4. Direct the vendor daemon to reread the license file.

    • When you change or create an options file for a vendor daemon later than version 8.0, you must restart the vendor daemon in order for those changes to take effect.