Summary for Patch 2044 (Verified)

Summary Fix for Licpoll Sentinel and DSLS
Platform Unix
Category bugfix
Valid for 6.2.x, 6.3.x, 6.4.x
Requires 2009
Server Required Patch/es
Supersedes 2033, 979, 971, 955, 950, 902
Superseded by 2048 : Verified / Not hidden
2048 : Verified / Not hidden
Affects Client: License Analyzer
Last Updated October 12, 2016

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Description

General Description:
Fix for licpoll getting the expiration date for Sentinel

Detailed Description:
License Poller can't properly parse the usage of Sentinel. This issue occurs in the client license
poller parsing process. License Poller detects the date indicated from the "License Information"
instead from "Feature Information". As of this date, the reports for "License Information" in
Sentinel is not supported. This patch updates License Poller parsing process and make all the
entries readable by license poller. This patch update is applicable to Sentinel licenses only.

General Description:
Support to new DSLS output v6.418.1

Detailed Description:
License Poller can't properly parse the usage of DSLS. This issue occurs in the client license
poller parsing process error due to unsupported new version of DSLS output with new format of its
date. It can read all features that DSLS have but it will reject usage when it detects the date.
This patch updates License Poller parsing process and make all the entries readable by license
poller. This patch update is applicable to DSLS licenses only.

Note: Server patches 2025 and 2036 for unix or 1370 and 1350 for windows is required to be installed
for this update

Supersedes Patch Description

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Patch 2033 — Bug fixes for License Poller for Sentinel and Flex licenses
General Description:
Fix for License Poller's incorrect license expiration for Flex licenses with extended expiration.

Detailed Description:
License status monitor and reporting indicates that some Flex licenses are expired even if,
according to the license file, it is not. This issue occurs in client license poller. License Poller
cannot properly parse flex licenses with extended expiration. This patch updates License poller
parsing process to get the expiration properly. This patch update is applicable to Flex licenses
only.

General Description:
Fix for incorrect available licenses for Sentinel.  Sentinel license with unlimited licenses shows 0
licenses.

Detailed Description:
License status monitor and reporting shows zero (0) available licenses for Sentinel with unlimited
available licenses. This issue occurs in the client license poller parsing process for it detects
unlimited licenses as 0. This patch updates License Poller parsing process and make licenses with
unlimited available to 99999. This patch update is applicable to Sentinel licenses only.

General Description:
Fix for License Poller's disability to identify the correct expiry date, instead it uses 2038-xx-xx

Detailed Description:
License status monitor and reporting shows incorrect expiry date (i.e.  2038-xx-xx). This issue
occurs in the client license poller. This patch updates License poller parsing process to get the
expiration properly. This patch update is applicable to Flex licenses only.

General Description:
Fix for hanging License Poller. License poller hangs and cannot collect license usage data.

Detailed Description:
License poller is hanging and cannot collect license data. This is due to a new flex license format
and causes License poller application into an infinite loop process. This patch fixes this issue.
Previous format will still be supported. This fix is applicable to Flex license manager.
Patch 979 — Fix for Licpoll missing minutes in an hourly report usage
General Description: Updates in licpoll binary to fix the issue of the missing first poll.

Detailed Description: 
The last five minutes worth of data (0.08) are missing in an hourly report usage of licpoll. It
shows 0.92 instead of 1 hour. This is because the licpoll polls 5 minutes late. This patch updates
the licpoll binary to start polling as it should to have a complete elapsed time in the report.
Patch 971 — Fix missing feature usage
* Other versions of feature shows no usage.

This issue occurs when 'asset_info' is present in a floating license. Some features show no usage
because licpoll fails to parse the license status output properly. This patch contains the fix for
it.
Patch 955 — Support for Shared Licenses in Licpoll for LM-X
The installation of this patch enables support on Shared Licenses in LM-X in licpoll.
- The binary involved is openit_licpoll.exe.
Patch 950 — Fix for DSLS incorrect checkout time.
General Description:
This patch contains fix for the incorrect check time of DSLS due to the unsupported date format (
DD-MM-YYYY
HH:MM:SS )

Detailed Description:
Licpoll can't collect the checkout time properly due to the unsupported time format, in result
incorrect values are shown in the Reports and License
Monitor (e.g. 1970-01-13).

Currently supported date formats are:
DD-MM-YYYY HH.MM.SS ( Italian month names )
DD-MM-YYYY HH:MM:SS ( 24 Hours Format )
MM DD YYYY HH:MM:SS AM/PM ( 12 Hour format )
Patch 902 — Fix for Licpoll in LM-X
Fixed issues in Licpoll. It can now handle the new format for LM-X data in LM-X datatype

* AIX and hpux 11.11 is not yet supported

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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