Summary for Patch 514 rev2 (Verified)

Summary Added support for IBM LUM offline usage
Platform Unix
Category functionality
Valid for 4.9.x, 5.0.x, 5.1.x, 5.2.x, 5.3, 5.3.0.1
Requires 4.9.0.1 - 4.9.0.7: 262
Server Required Patch/es
Supersedes 475, 460, 452, 410, 401, 394, 382, 371, 351, 340, 311, 305, 297, 286
Superseded by 519 : Verified / Not hidden
Affects : License Analyzer
Last Updated September 30, 2009

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Description

Added support in LicPoll for including offline usage from IBM LUM.

Supersedes Patch Description

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Patch 475 — Fixed bug in licpoll, IBM LUM polling
If "Group" was missing from the output from i4blt, the LUM poller, parts
of the poll data would be missed by licpoll.
Patch 460 — Fixed bug in license package handling
Fixed a critical bug in parsing of packages in FLEXlm license file.
Patch 452 — Fixed parsing problem for FLEXlm 11.3 license files
In PACKAGE lines, a field that was previously present in the license
file seems to have been removed. This could cause LicPoll to sometimes
discard components information.
Patch 410 — Fixes a bug in LicPoll when poll interval exceeds 5 minutes
If the poll interval for LicPoll was set to a value greater than 5 minutes,
LicPoll would terminate after just one poll (and not run the entire hour).
Patch 401 — Removes unnecessary warning when feature name differs in lmstat
Sometimes when lmstat command is run with port/server in the -c 
options instead of a license file it will return the result of
multiple license daemons running on the same server.

This "feature" caused licpoll to hang when monitoring license
files configured to use SimpleFlex.

When SimpleFlex now encounters a config dump it will assume all
features seen are part of the product (even if this inlcudes
the features from other products).
Patch 394 — Removes unnecessary warning when feature name differs in lmstat
A warning was written by licpoll everytime it encountered a difference
(case) when parsing feature names in lmstat output, i.e with seeing
something like this:

  Feature usage info:

  Users of feature1:  (Total of 20 licenses available)

    "Feature1" v1.0, vendor: psmld
    floating license

  lsf-arc solveig 193.217.12.14 (v1.0) (solveig/1700 1593), start Fri 2/18 15:21

("feature1" vs "Feature1"). It still parsed the lmstat output correctly but if
this occured often a lot of warnings would be written in the log file.

This updates removes this warning message.
Patch 382 — Fixes problem with LicPoll, parsing IBM LUM offline usage
LicPoll would fail to parse the IBM LUM license information correct
when there were offline usage.
Patch 371 — Remove serial number in LUM hostnames
This client updates parsing of LUM node names. Previously the
client was not able to separate serial number when seeing node
names like

  CAD-NODE-1.us(#194.19.77.134) Serial Number_ 72211XB1934

This updates makes sure the serial number is not part of the
hostname.

A patch for filtrator (#372) has also been made to retroactivly
remove the serial number in existing data (by regeneration).
Patch 351 — Run lmutil in license file directory
For some versions of lmutil running with the lmstat option on
a license file fails if the program is not run in the same
directory has the location of the license file. This updates
adds a temporary change of directory to the location of
the license file when running lmstat data collection.
Patch 340 — Small updates to licpoll
This patch installs a new licpoll binary that adds handling of
missing " in license.dat files. Such missing "'s would
previously cause licpoll to ignore the rest of the file).
Patch 311 — Fixes problem with licpoll that runs for almost two hours
If start of licpoll for some reason (e.g a heavily loaded host)
is delayed by a few minutes, the calculation of how long licpoll
is run would wrongly add an additional hour to the runtime. This
patch installs an updated licpoll which fixes this problem.
Patch 305 — Support for borrowed licenses and various stability fixes
This patch adds handling of borrowed Flex licenses.

The following fixes are also included if you don't already
have patch 297:

When running lmstat takes a lot of time (many and/or
heave license files) occasionally a licpoll would not 
terminate after it's processing time (one hour)was finished. 
After the first instance experienced this problem, all
consecutive instances would also "hang". This fixes 
this problem.

The patch also replaces the intra process locking mechanism
with thread mutex's instead of semaphores.
Patch 297 — Fix problem with "hanging" licpoll binaries
When running lmstat takes a lot of time (many and/or
heave license files) occasionally a licpoll would not 
terminate after it's processing time (one hour)was finished. 
After the first instance experienced this problem, all
consecutive instances would also "hang". This fixes 
this problem.

The patch also replaces the intra process locking mechanism
with thread mutex's instead of semaphores.
Patch 286 — Fix problems with UPGRADE lines
This patch fixes licpoll problems with correct handling of 
UPGRADE lines in FLEXlm license files.

Installation

Before you install this patch, you need to manually update the LicPoll
configuration file - licpoll.conf, found in:

   /var/opt/openit/etc/

Scan down until you find the object named "license-types". Below this, you
will have one or more LUM license type objects. (These will typically have
"LUM" in their names, but if you look at the "type" sub-object, all that have
the value "LUM" are LUM license type objects.

For each of these, insert the following at the end, same level as
"status-command":


	status-command(FileName)="<path to i4blt>"
	{
		arguments(String)="-s -lc"{}
	}
 --- Cut & paste the following ---
	offline-status(Bool)="true"
	{
		arguments(String)="-s -lco"{}
	}
 --- End ---
 
Do this for each LUM license type object for which you want to log offline
usage.

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

  cd /tmp/patch
  ./patch.pl

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