Rentman
Rentman Usage Monitoring
About Rentman
Rentman is a rental management software solution for the event and production industry. It helps businesses manage their equipment, staff, and projects. Monitoring Rentman usage is important for ensuring that licenses are used effectively and for optimizing costs. This is similar to monitoring other business management tools like Odoo.
Prerequisites
To begin monitoring Rentman, ensure you have the following components and permissions in place:
- OpenLM Components: OpenLM Cloud Broker and OpenLM SLM are required.
- Platform-specific Requirements: You'll need administrative access to your Rentman account to generate an API key with the necessary read permissions.
Configuring data collection
Follow these step-by-step instructions to set up data collection for Rentman in OpenLM Cloud Broker:
- Enable API Access: In your Rentman account settings, create a new API key with read access to user and project data.
- Add Credentials: In the OpenLM Cloud Broker dashboard, find the Rentman integration and enter the API key.
- Verify Connection: Test the connection to ensure that OpenLM can successfully communicate with the Rentman API.
- Approve in OpenLM: Approve the new data source within the License Servers section.
- See Data: Usage data for Rentman will now be visible in the OpenLM Allocation service.
Viewing reports
Access your reports to analyze usage patterns.
- User Activity Trends: See which users are most active, which helps you reallocate licenses.
- Expired/Unused License Reports: Identify and reclaim licenses from inactive users to save on costs.