inquire license manager state (dlm)

Hi Gerd,

I've been looking for that for some time now. Please check out the wish list and add your vote to my wish for exactly that. ("Interface with the licence manager")

Iain

hello Iain

I would prefer a command line toot, as the cpwr dlm itself is independent of Uniface.  This should be easy to achieve and would avoid set up a uniface application for controlling it (I would like to run this script in a nagios installation, a simple command line tool is all I need, and would the Uniface control application start if there are no more licenses available ? :-)).
We also had the problem that the lic manager was locked up (no respsonse, process still there), in that case the uniface control application would not start (I could interprete this as a problem with the lic manager, but also here a command line tool would simplify my task).

best greetings,

gerd

PS: you got my vote for your request, it certainly is useful

Hi gerd,

wouldn't it be better if you have a word with your local CPWR contact on that issue?

In most casese, the sales force is mightier than common sense or solid craftsmanship.

Uli

hello Uli

yes, that's what I'll do if I get no answer on the forum. I thought there might be something somewhere that I've missed, and it woul be known and shared by somebody in the community.  Obviously there is nothing yet.  I will contact Compuware and if I get more useful information, I will post it here.

best christmas-wishes,

gerd

There is a command line tool.

dlmcv.exe -usage -feat UCLIENT

returns human readable output for the current usage of the client.

and dlmcv.exe /? will show the rest.

However, I believe some of these features do pagination (Q to quit, enter for more) so dumping the output to a text file for a computer to read it is problematic.

%%programfiles%%\Common Files\Compuware\DLMHelp.chm will list these options as well, (See command line interface) but the documentation is sketchy.

There is also the libdlm32.dll, tss.dll and softkey32.dll (which are needed for a uniface install without the licence manager installed) which may have hooks in them someone more quanlified than me can 'hack' into.

If you want to dump the output to a text file this works for me on solaris:

echo \n | ./dlmcv.sh -usage -feat UCLIENT > output.txt

then do tail -1 output.txt | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' to get the total minus the leading spaces