# Materialise License Manager

# Introduction

Open iT supports Materialise usage reporting through the generic license type format. This will produce the following aggregated data types used for historical and real-time reporting:

The following sections will guide you in setting up the necessary configuration to collect and send the required data to the server.

# Requirements

# Configuring Data Collection

These are the required steps to activate and configure collection of Materialise usage data.

  1. Go to the Components directory, which is by default in C:\Program Files\OpeniT\Core\Configuration\Components, and back up the licpoll.xml configuration file.

  2. Open a command prompt with Administrator level privileges.

  3. Go to the bin directory, which is by default in C:\Program Files\OpeniT\Core\bin, run the command:

    Command Syntax
     cd $BIN_DIR
    Example
     cd C:\Program Files\OpeniT\Core\bin
  4. Once in the directory, activate the collection of Materialise data, run the command:

    Command Syntax
     openit_confinit -c "licpoll.license-types.genericlicense-materialise-sample.active=true"
  5. Set the license server name and port used by the Materialise License Server, run the command:

    Command Syntax
     openit_confinit -c "licpoll.license-types.genericlicense-materialise-sample.license-server=<hostname:portnumber>"
    Example
     openit_confinit -c "licpoll.license-types.genericlicense-materialise-sample.license-server=osl120win:27000"
  6. Update the configuration file, run the command:

    Command Syntax
     openit_confbuilder --client

    Make sure that there are no errors encountered.

  1. Go to the Components directory, which is by default in /var/opt/openit/etc/Components, and back up the licpoll.xml configuration file.

  2. Go to the bin directory, which is by default in /opt/openit/bin, run the command:

    Command Syntax
     cd $BIN_DIR
    Example
     cd /opt/openit/bin
  3. Once in the directory, activate the collection of Materialise data, run the command:

    Command Syntax
     ./openit_confinit -r /var/opt/openit/ -d /var/opt/openit/etc/ -c "licpoll.license-types.genericlicense-materialise-sample.active=true"
  4. Set the license server name and port used by the Materialise License Server, run the command:

    Command Syntax
     ./openit_confinit -r /var/opt/openit/ -d /var/opt/openit/etc/ -c "licpoll.license-types.genericlicense-materialise-sample.license-server=<hostname:portnumber>"
    Example
     ./openit_confinit -r /var/opt/openit/ -d /var/opt/openit/etc/ -c "licpoll.license-types.genericlicense-materialise-sample.license-server=osl120win:27000"
  5. Update the configuration file, run the command:

    Command Syntax
     ./openit_confbuilder --client

    Make sure that there are no errors encountered.

Refer to the Materialise Data Collection Configuration table to learn more about Materialise configuration in licpoll.xml.

Object Name Accepted Value Description
active Boolean (true or false) Setting this to true activates Materialise usage data collection.
type String (e.g., GenericLicense) The license manager type.
interval Timespan (e.g., P30S, P5M, P1H) The span of time between each polling round (it is recommended to set a value no less than P1M).
offset Timespan (e.g., P30S, P5M, P1H) The span of time the aligned poll time decided by interval is shifted.
product-name String (e.g., server;daemon) The vendor license name format.
license-server String (e.g., hou105win) The License Server name.
status-command FileName (i.e., ${OpeniT.directories.bin}/openit_mtlspoll) The binary used to obtain status from the license manager.
status-command.arguments String (e.g., -hostid) The arguments used for the status command.
Materialise Data Collection Configuration

# Verifying Data Collection

After configuration, you can verify that the data is collected by following these steps:

  1. Open a command prompt with Administrator level privileges.

  2. Go to the bin directory, which is by default in C:\Program Files\OpeniT\Core\bin, run the command:

    Command Syntax
     cd $BIN_DIR
    Example
     cd C:\Program Files\OpeniT\Core\bin
  3. Run the command:

    Command Syntax
     openit_licpoll -# 1
  4. Verify that the temp directory, which is by default in C:\ProgramData\OpeniT\Data\temp, contains a LicPoll directory containing .data and status-*.log files.

  1. Go to the bin directory, which is by default in /opt/openit/bin, run the command:

    Command Syntax
     cd $BIN_DIR
    Example
     cd /opt/openit/bin
  2. Run the command:

    Command Syntax
     ./openit_licpoll -# 1
  3. Verify that the temp directory, which is by default in /var/opt/openit/temp, contains a LicPoll directory containing .data and status-*.log files.

# Next Steps?

   Renaming Vendor License    Renaming Features    Create and Add Report    License Monitor

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