Configuring FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications
The System Configuration | Manager settings enable you to specify settings that are specific to how data is displayed in FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications. In addition, the FNMP settings enable you to set up communication with FlexNet Manager Platform.
To change FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications configuration settings:
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From the Admin tab, under **System Configuration, **click Manager.
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View or change the values of the following settings. Required settings are identified by a red asterisk (*) and settings that require a restart are identified by the restart symbol
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| Setting | Default | Description |
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| Summary Table Size | 10 | Maximum number of lines displayed in each table on the Status Summary page. |
| Refresh Interval on the Summary page | 60 | The interval at which the information on the Status Summary page is refreshed, specified in seconds. |
| Enable support for third-party license servers | (not selected) | Enables support for license servers other than FlexNet Publisher and IBM LUM. This support includes: License server management Licensing template creation—to provide definition for the license server’s commands and options. When this option is selected, two additional tabs are displayed beneath the Servers tab—Third-Party License Servers and Third-Party Licensing Templates. Use of this functionality requires the engagement of Flexera Software’s Professional Services. |
| Time Period (in minutes) for denial alert detection | 30 | The time period (specified in number of minutes) for denial alert detection. This value is used in conjunction with the Denial Events in Preceding User-Defined Time Period alert, which triggers an alert when a denial event occurs within the preceding user-defined time period. |
| FNMP Server Protocol | Protocol used to communicate with the FlexNet Manager Platform server. This will typically be either http or https. | |
| FNMP Host Name | Host name of the FlexNet Manager Platform server. This is the server that receives compliance and usage information from FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications. | |
| FNMP Host Port | Port number of the FlexNet Manager Platform server. If no port number is specified, the default port will be used, depending on what is entered in the FNMP Server Protocol field: 80 for http, 443 for https. | |
| FNMP User Name | User name to access the FlexNet Manager Platform server. | |
| FNMP Password (Confirm) | The password associated with the user name provided in the FNMP User Name field. Type the password in both password fields. | |
| FNMP Update CRON Expression | 0 0 2 * * ? | A CRON expression that tells the FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Admin server when to send compliance and usage information to the FlexNet Manager Platform server. For information on formatting this expression, see the following section, CRON Expression Formatting. The default setting is daily at 2:00 A.M. (0 0 2 * * ?) |
| Enable Time Limit for Imnewlog | Enables the time limit option for the Imnewlog command. When this setting is active, the -t parameter is included in the lmnewlog command. | |
| Time (in seconds) for -t option in Imnewlog | 4 | Specifies the duration, in seconds, for the -t option in the Imnewlog command. The default value is 4 seconds, but any value between 1 and 2,147,483,647 seconds is accepted. If the field is left empty while the check box is selected, the system will display a validation error indicating that a valid number must be provided. It is important to note that this setting is global. If a customer has multiple license servers, enabling the time limit and specifying a value will apply the same timeout to all lmnewlog commands across all servers. For example, if a customer enables the option and sets the timeout to 20 seconds, every license server will use this value when executing the lmnewlog command. If the check box is not selected, the utility continues to operate with its default behavior, using the original four second timeout. |
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CRON Expression Formatting
For the FNMP Update CRON Expression setting, you can specify a CRON expression that tells FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications when to send information to the FlexNet Manager Platform server.
This is a six-field CRON expression, where the syntax is as shown in the following diagram (using the default setting as the example):
The following table provides more information about the values you can provide in the CRON expression.
| Field | Allowed values | Allowed special characters |
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| Seconds | 0–59 | , - * / |
| Minutes | 0–59 | , - * / |
| Hours | 0–23 | , - * / |
| Day of month | 1–31 | , - * ? / L W |
| Month | 1–12 or JAN–DEC | , - * / |
| Day of week | 1–7 or SUN–SAT | , - * ? / L # |
See Also
Configuring the User Interface
Configuring the Reporting Service