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Bluebeam
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Introduction
Open iT supports Bluebeam usage reporting. The following sections will guide you on the required configuration for
This is only available for Bluebeam Revu 20 and below.
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Requirements
- An Open iT Client connected to an Open iT Server or a coexistent Open iT setup
- Activated LicenseAnalyzer collection and license poller
- A gateway administrator to the Bluebeam Portal
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Configuring License Manager Utility Polling
Open iT polls the license servers at regular intervals to get the current status of its license use and availability. This will produce the following aggregated data types used for historical reporting:
- (49) Host User License Use
- (93) OLAP Raw Hourly
- (94) OLAP User Concurrency
- (95) Usergroup License Use v3.0
- (102) OLAP Total Use
The following sections will guide you in setting up the necessary configuration to collect and send the required data to the server.
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Initializing Poll-based Data Collection
Before configuring data collection, it is necessary to follow the steps below:
Open a command prompt with Administrator level privileges.
Go to the bin directory, which is by default in
C:\Program Files\OpeniT\Core\bin
, run the command:Command Syntaxcd $BIN_DIR
Examplecd C:\Program Files\OpeniT\Core\bin
Run the following command to initialize data collection for real-time reporting:
Command Syntaxopenit_bluebeampoll -c
Enter the Bluebeam account credentials once prompted.
Exampleopenit_bluebeampoll -c Enter username to user: jsmith@email.com Enter password:
Open iT saves the hashed Bluebeam credential file in
C:\ProgramData\OpeniT\Data\var\Bluebeam
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Configuring Data Collection
These are the required steps to activate and configure collection of Bluebeam usage data.
Go to the Components directory, which is by default in
C:\Program Files\OpeniT\Core\Configuration\Components
, and back up thelicpoll.xml
configuration file.Open a command prompt with Administrator level privileges.
Go to the bin directory, which is by default in
C:\Program Files\OpeniT\Core\bin
, run the command:Command Syntaxcd $BIN_DIR
Examplecd C:\Program Files\OpeniT\Core\bin
Once in the directory, activate the collection of Bluebeam data, run the command:
Command Syntaxopenit_confinit -c "licpoll.license-types.bluebeam-sample.active=true"
Update the configuration file, run the command:
Command Syntaxopenit_confbuilder --client
Refer to the Bluebeam Data Collection Configuration table to learn more about Bluebeam configuration in licpoll.xml
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Verifying Data Collection
After configuration, you can verify that the data is collected by following these steps:
Open a command prompt with Administrator level privileges.
Go to the bin directory, which is by default in
C:\Program Files\OpeniT\Core\bin
, run the command:Command Syntaxcd $BIN_DIR
Examplecd C:\Program Files\OpeniT\Core\bin
Run the command:
Command Syntaxopenit_licpoll -# 1
Verify that the temp directory, which is by default in
C:\ProgramData\OpeniT\Data\temp
, contains aLicPoll
directory containing.data
andstatus-*.log
files.
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Configuring Log File Parsing
Open iT collects log files and converts them to Open iT format. This will produce the following aggregated data types used for historical reporting:
- (89) Total License Use Licenseevents
- (90) Individual License Use Licenseevents
- (91) Usergroup License Use Licenseevents
- (104) License Logfile Events v2
- (107) Denied License Use Licenseevents
- (108) Host License Use Licenseevents
- (109) Hostgroup License Use Licenseevents
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Initializing Historical Data Collection
Before configuring data collection, it is necessary to follow the steps below:
Open a command prompt with Administrator level privileges.
Go to the bin directory, which is by default in
C:\Program Files\OpeniT\Core\bin
, run the command:Command Syntaxcd $BIN_DIR
Examplecd C:\Program Files\OpeniT\Core\bin
Run the following command to initialize data collection for historical reporting:
Command Syntaxopenit_bluebeamhistory -c
Enter the Bluebeam account credentials once prompted.
Exampleopenit_bluebeamhistory -c Enter username to user: jsmith@email.com Enter password:
Open iT saves the hashed Bluebeam credential file in
C:\ProgramData\OpeniT\Data\var\Bluebeam
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Activating Log Data Collection
These are the required steps to activate collection of Bluebeam license log data.
Go to the scheduler directory, which is by default in
C:\Program Files\OpeniT\Core\Configuration\scheduler
, and opencollect_license_bluebeam-logs.oconf
.Locate and set
root.scheduler.jobs.collect_bluebeam_data.general.active.value
to true to activate the collection of Bluebeam log data.collect_license_bluebeam-logs.oconf1| root 2| { 3| scheduler 4| { 5| jobs 6| { 7| collect_bluebeam_data 8| { ... 14| general 15| { 16| active 17| { 18| type=bool 19| value=true ...
Save the changes.
The collection runs hourly using a 5-minute sample interval by default. The primary data is then transferred to the server every night according to the client timezone for processing. To configure the intervals, locate the instances
attribute under collect_bluebeam_licenselogs
, preprocess_bluebeam_licenselogs-events
, or transfer_bluebeam_licenselogs
in the same file and configure the attributes.
Refer to the Bluebeam Log Job Scheduler Instances Configuration table to learn the attributes used to configure Bluebeam data collection and transfer.
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Verifying Log Data Collection
After configuration, you can verify that the data is collected and sent to the server by following these steps:
Open a command prompt with Administrator level privileges.
Go to the bin directory, which is by default in
C:\Program Files\OpeniT\Core\bin
, run the command:Command Syntaxcd $BIN_DIR
Examplecd C:\Program Files\OpeniT\Core\bin
Run the command:
Command Syntaxopenit_executor -r collect_license_bluebeam-logs
Verify that there are
archiver*.in
files created in the server in the archiver directory, which is by default inC:\ProgramData\OpeniT\Data\incoming\archiver
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