The free RRR version is online. You purchase you can run locally. Since it's tied to custom form it may not be that useful to you. It's two filters (one for modify and one for submit) that updates a record in a collector form. It generates a count of the number of times an individual submits or modifies a record in various forms during an hour. The count is not as important as they actually performed an action that requires a license within an hour. My perl script looks at how often a person used a license within a given time period (normal business hours) over a set time period.
Since we are a global company, our highest usage of floating licenses is between 9:00 AM and 11:00 AM. (This data can be found in the Server Statistics form when enabled). So the perl script counts the number of times that an individual creates/modifies at least one record within a given hour from 9:00 AM up to 11:00 AM, Monday through Friday, for say the last 8 weeks. (Our greatest impact on licenses is from the US so we exclude US holidays from the analysis.) Since we are looking at a 2 hour block each day, 5 days a week, over 8 weeks, the perl script can actually convert this to a percentage of time, the person has needed a license to do their job within that time period. The script also retrieves if the person has a float or a fixed license. We have a filter added to the Server Statistics form that triggers based on 'Floating Write Lic Connections' greater than a certain value to let us know when we are getting tight on licenses. When that happens we will run the script to figure out how to rebalance fixed/floating licenses. Misi's product uses a slightly different approach. His takes it up a notch and looks at login and license release. His routine can also give you a suggested fixed/floating count and with the paid version who should have a fixed vs a floating. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of David Durling Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 1:46 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: License analysis utitily to run locally Thanks, I'll check with RRR. I thought the "free" version was probably just online. Is your workflow something you'd care to share? David > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Shellman, David > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 1:05 PM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: Re: License analysis utitily to run locally > > RRR has a version that you can run locally. > > I also wrote my own processes that saves data to custom forms. I have > a perl script that performs the analysis of that data. > > Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of David Durling > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 1:02 PM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: License analysis utitily to run locally > > Are there any license analysis utilities that one can run locally > (perhaps on one's PC) against an AR System user log? > > We only need basic fixed/floating analysis - we don't run any BMC > licensed applications. > > I'm aware of the fine reputation of rrr and perhaps others, but I'm > thinking my organization will want something where I'm not sending > logs to a 3rd party. > > Thanks for any info - > > David > > ARS 7.5, Solaris/Oracle > David Durling > University of Georgia > > __________________________________________________________ > _____________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend > wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" > > __________________________________________________________ > _____________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend > wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
