Summary for Patch 262 (Verified)

Summary Add anonymization of user and host information to license data
Platform Unix
Category
Valid for 4.7.x, 4.8.x, 4.9.x
Requires
Server Required Patch/es
Supersedes 256, 234, 230, 215, 212, 208, 197
Superseded by
Affects Client: License Analyzer
Last Updated September 30, 2009

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Description

This update adds the possibility of anonymizing user and host
for license data at the collection time. By updating 

        anonymize()=""
        {
                username()=""
                {
                        field(String)="username"{}
                        method(String)="none"{}
                }
                hostname()=""
                {
                        field(String)="hostname"{}
                        method(String)="none"{}
                }
        }

and changing method to either "clear" or "hash", real user
and/or host names will be removed from license data. The
"clear" metohd will set all names to "_clear_" while
using "hash" will set names to the internal hash value
for the names. This will allow you to se the usage patterns
tough names will no longer be identifiable.

Supersedes Patch Description

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Patch 256 — Fixes incompatibility problem in Licpoll towards IBM LUM
Added support for newly discovered format on output from i4blt -s -lc (slightly
different from previously known output format).
Patch 234 — Fix bug in licpoll when encounter "free" UPGRADE lines
When licpoll encountered FLEXlm license files with UPGRADE lines
without matching FEATURE/INCREMENT lines it would exit. This 
update fixes this problem.
Patch 230 — Fix handling of lmstat entry lines without version info
Some FLEXlm lmstat output contains entry lines without the feature
version information. This patch updates clients with a new licpoll
binary that handles these lines correctly.
Patch 215 — Fixes looping problem in licpoll
When lmstat output mixed the case of feature names in different
lines, licpoll got confused and could go into an infinitie loop. 
This patch solves this problem.
Patch 212 — Fixes various minor problems with licpoll
Licpoll now handles display values from lmutil which contain 
"garbage"

Licpoll can now handle licenses locked to "disk serial number"

Licpoll also adds PID to debug filename to avoid having
several processes write to the same debug file.
Patch 208 — Fix problem with host-locked licenses
Licpoll did not handle host-locked licenses properly. 
This fix includes an updated licpoll that handles this
correctly.
Patch 197 — Fix problem with handling large number of features
Licpoll poll crashed before finishing log files
leaving unfinished .make files. Error was triggered
by (too) large number of in/out records.

This patch corrects this problem

Installation

Unpack tar file in e.g /tmp/patch on the Open iT host. Do the 
following as root:

  cd /tmp/patch
  ./patch.pl

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