OpenLM Version 1.7 Screenshots

OpenLM floating license monitoring tool

The OpenLM Floating license monitoring and Usage optimization tool interfaces an ever growing variety of license managers, such as Flexera software's FlexNet publisher (FlexLM), DSLS, Setinel HASP, Sentinel RMS, Reprise RLM, IBM LUM, MathLM and LM-X.

The OpenLM system consists of a number of modules. An overview of these modules' function is found here. This document presents a screenshot appearance of the main OpenLM modules.

EasyAdmin

The EasyAdmin user interface is accessible from any standard internet browser, e.g.:
Mozilla FireFox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera, Apple Safari & Google Chrome.

EasyAdmin Control Panel

The control panel allows users to get system status information in a single glance:

License server status.
OpenLM Broker status on each license server.
General statistics on license on daily and weekly license usage.
One-glance status of critical feature over multiple license servers.
Alerts system messages.

The control panel features a Windows-like interface that allows easy access and management of Windows on a standard browser interface.

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OpenLM EasyAdmin - Licenses window

OpenLM version 1.7 supports Flexera FLEXlm/FLEXnet, IBM LUM, Sentinel SafeNet HASP, Sentinel SafeNet RMS, Reprise RLM, and DSLS license managers.
The licenses window lists available licenses, and allows easy management of the organizational assets.
A sophisticated sliding filter enables users to filter long lists easily.

OpenLM EasyAdmin supports advanced features like FLEXlm packages (As used by Autodesk that produce Autocad).
License Packages appear as boxed items.
Licenses with an upcoming license expiration date are marked with a different color.

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OpenLM EasyAdmin - Active Products Window

License managers may sometimes label licenses as occupied, when in fact they are idle and wasting your limited resources.
OpenLM EasyAdmin identifies these conditions, and resolves the problem of idle licenses.

The Active Products window lists all active users.
It also serves as an interface for authorized system managers to retrieve a license from any user when necessary.

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OpenLM EasyAdmin Workstations window

The Workstations window provides all the information a system administrator needs in order to manage workstations that are accessing licenses.
This information includes:

Hostname
IP Address
Last logged in user
Agent version (if applicable)
Online (Workstation is online or offline)
Idle time (User idle time)
Controlled (for supported systems)

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OpenLM EasyAdmin - License Activity

The License Activity window is a very powerful tool that enables system administrators and managers to produce sophisticated reports, and track license activity of individual users. This window facilitates license statistics report generation according to Workstations, Features, Users, Groups, and Projects.

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OpenLM EasyAdmin - Released Licenses window

The Released Licenses window reports license release (check-ins).
This functionality is only relevant for applications with supported extensions such as ESRI Desktop ArcGIS and Autodesk.
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OpenLM EasyAdmin - Denials window

OpenLM accumulates reports of license request denials.
It thus provides comprehensive exact information, which is required for establishing a correct license purchasing policy.

OpenLM EasyAdmin - License usage

The license usage reports allows system administrators to compare the actual license usage to the number of available licenses.
The smart Filter enables users to build a customized list of licenses and get the total usage on those licenses.

OpenLM EasyAdmin - Groups and Projects Usage

OpenLM enables organization to organize users according to groups and projects, and obtain the total usage time these groups very easily.
This could be done either manually, or by synchronizing the OpenLM database with the organization's Active directory. This functionality is often applied in order to implement license charge back policy (license usage billing).

Project Report

Project reporting enables project-oriented companies to get license usage time according to the active project, as reported by the end user.

Group Report

Group reporting allows managers and system administrators to obtain license usage statistics according to groups.

EasyAdmin Settings

The configuration screens allows users to set their preferences.

The configured preferences in the "User settings" window effect the format of information as it is presented to the User.

The choice of working hours effects the statistical information which is calculated shown to all system users.

OpenLM Agent

The end user tool of OpenLM system improves license availability, empowers the user and provides advanced functionality.

OpenLM Agent functionality:

Query license manager status (and check who is using the license).
Open documents that were closed by OpenLM (only supported for dedicated system like ESRI Desktop ArcGIS).
Allows the user to set the active project (when projects are active).
Gets the LM_PROJECT environment value and sends it to the OpenLM Server.
Provides license availability notifications.

OpenLM Agent is shown as an icon on the Windows system tray:

The blue and white icon indicates connectivity to OpenLM Server.

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OpenLM Agent - License Usage Information

The License Usage Information window is available to the end user.
The ability to query license availability from the end user workstation is a very important step towards improving license usability.
The license usage window displays the total number of used, borrowed, and available licenses.
Click on a row to get the complete list of active users who are currently drawing on that license.

OpenLM Agent - License usage information: "Who has my license ?"

This is what every FLEXlm user wants to know at any specific point in time. Now you can find that information quickly with a single click. Whoever needs the use of that license at a particular time can now call the user who is occupying the license and request that it be released. This feature on its own has proved to save a considerable amount of time for users and administrators, by facilitating faster access to licenses.

OpenLM Agent allows users to see who is currently running the floating license on their station, an important and useful feature for any system that incorporates floating licenses such as:
Autocad, Matlab, ESRI, AVEVA, Cadence, IntelliCAD, MathCAD, Pro-Engineer, Solidworks, and Synopsys. It is also a powerful tool for systems with extensions, especially when there is a limited number of extensions to go around, and users tend to use them mostly for a short time span.

A click on the any of the users displays the users details as stored in OpenLM Users table. These tables can be synchronized with an organization's LDAP database: e.g.: Microsoft Active Directory.

OpenLM Agent - License available notification

When a user is denied a specific license, the OpenLM Server sends a notification to the user once the specific license becomes available again:

OpenLM Agent - Project selection

OpenLM System also enables end users to choose the active projects:

OpenLM Agent Configuration Form

The OpenLM Agent Configuration form sets and tests the connection to an OpenLM server.

Note - this is the OpenLM server, NOT a license (e.g.: Flexera FLEXnet) server.

The Agent's logging level may also be set here.
A "Silent Install" option is available for automatic distribution of the OpenLM Agent to all workstations in the network.

OpenLM Active Agent

The OpenLM Active agent boosts organizations' license usage by actively retrieving idle licenses.
The Active Agent supports many different software products from various vendors.These include:
Autodesk software - Autocad, Revit, Electrical, Architecture, Mechanical, Map 3D, MEP, Navisworks and more...
ESRI - ArcGIS Desktop products: ArcView, ArcEditor, ArcInfo, Network Analyst, 3d Analyst, ArcGIS Data Interoperability, ArcGIS Data Reviewer, ArcGIS Spatial Analyst and more...

The Extension provides additional functions, such as:

Closing idle sessions when licenses are no longer in use.
One-click reopening of closed projects.

When OpenLM saves and closes an idle session of ArcGIS, it alerts the user with a notification message:

A single click on the bubble reopens the project exactly as it was before OpenLM closed it.
Also, right clicking the Active Agent icon, and selecting "Recently Closed Documents" displays all recently closed documents:

Click on one of the recently closed documents to reopen it.

OpenLM Server

The OpenLM Server is the hub component of the OpenLM Utilizer system.
It collects license usage information from various sources and stores it in a relational database.
The OpenLM Server is a Windows service that can manage and monitor multiple license servers, located in different time zones and running on different operating systems (UNIX, Linux, or Windows).

OpenLM Server Configuration Form - License Servers Tab

This tab enables system administrators to effectively configure and manage license servers via the OpenLM Server.

Version 1.7 supports the FLEXlm FLEXnet license manager and additional license servers like IBM LUM, Sentinel SafeNet HASP, Sentinel SafeNet RMS, Reprise RLM, and more.
The OpenLM server supports world-wide license server monitoring; It is important to specify the time zone of each server.
After introducing new license servers, it is recommended to click the "Check" button to verify that the OpenLM server is able to connect to the license server.

Free text display names are attached to each server for better identification.
Fail safe server (Triad configuration) may also be configured on this tab.

OpenLM Server Configuration Form - Advanced Tab

Advanced OpenLM Server settings include:

Option file management
Translate workstation names to IPs
Enable the OpenLM Role based permissions system
Logging level
miscellaneous.

OpenLM Server Configuration Form - Port settings Tab

The Openlm Server interfaces all other OpenLM peripheral modules via ports, which numbers are defined in this form.

OpenLM Server Configuration Form - Active Directory Tab

The OpenLM server can synchronize users and user groups with organizations' LDAP Database (Microsoft Active Directory).
Group synchronization is complex; OpenLM provides multiple policies for such synchronizations.

OpenLM Server Configuration Form - Notifications Tab

The Notifications tab is extremely important!
These settings allow OpenLM to send error notifications, updates on new releases, and other important messages aimed at improving the license usage.