Summary for Patch 2048 rev2 (Verified)

Summary Fix for License Poller for STI, LUM, and Flex licenses
Platform Unix
Category bugfix
Valid for 6.2.1.x, 6.3.x, 6.4.x
Requires
Server Required Patch/es 1339, 2057, 1370, 1350
Supersedes 2044, 2033, 2009, 979, 971, 955, 950, 902, 989, 947
Superseded by
Affects Client: License Analyzer
Last Updated June 30, 2017

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Description

This patch fixes:
- License data collection for STI License Manager
- New LUM output
- License data collection for Flex License Manager
- Correct license count for Flex License Manager
- Licpoll which is unable to handle two "identical" packages only differentiated by components
version numbers

Open iT License Poller is updated.

Supersedes Patch Description

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Patch 2044 — Fix for Licpoll Sentinel and DSLS
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
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 2009 — Licpoll Update for RLM, DSLS, Sentinel, and SPLM
General Description:
* Fix for parsing issue on new RLM license file format and DSLS data.
* Fix for parsing duplicate user entry on Sentinel log data.
* REV 2: Fix the SPP/SPPD issue and the different SPLM issue in licpoll such as stopping of licpoll
when it detects unwanted values in raw data. Just properly including this description to this patch.
Rev 1 already have this fix.
* REV 3: Fix for the patch description of Rev 2.

Detailed Description:
* RLM license file in "LICENSE cmgl builder 2099.99 31-jan-2016... " format can now be collected.
* DSLS parsing issue was found causing features usage to be counted to another feature.
* Wrong max available license for Sentinel when user entry has duplicate in Sentinel log data.
* Only binary licpoll is needed to be updated

Requires: Windows Server Patch 1350 / UNIX Server Patch 2011
AIX platform not supported.
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
Patch 989 — Fix for Daemon status
General Description: Licpoll updates for daemon status, support for DSLS feature version and
collecting information with double quotations marks.

Detailed Description:
This installation of this patch enables licpoll to report daemon status as down when it detects
"<vendor daemon>: The desired vendor daemon is down. (-97,121)" in status output. Also, licpoll will
be able to support DSLS feature version under "LicenseId" column of status output and it will now
handle the information with double quotations marks to be able to collect all license usage using
simple-flex and flex.
Patch 947 — Licpoll updates and Bug Fix
General Description:

  Multiple Licpoll update and bug fix.

Detailed Description:

Added Features:
Improved token data collection.
  The licpoll output data is updated to handle token cost and token pool for token licenses.
  The output data format from licpoll has been modified and this patch requires that
  patch 930 is installed on the server.

Lmutil version is now handled in the data collection of Flex ,SelectiveFlex and SimpleFlex.
Lmutil version argument can be set by modifying Configurations\Components\Licpoll.xml and set
argument_version.
  e.g.
  Licpoll.license-type.flex-sample.status-command.arguments_version ="-v
  Licpoll.license-type.selective-flex-sample.status-command.arguments_version ="-v
  Licpoll.license-type.simple-flex-sample.status-command.arguments_version ="-v

Added support for collection of LS-DYNA 
  To set LS-DYNA please copy (or link) lstc_qrun to OpeniT/bin
  (or set absolute path of the binary in licpoll.xml file)

  To set manually:
  licpoll.license-type.lsdyna.active=true
  licpoll.license-type.lsdyna.license-server=<port>@<host>


Bug Fix: 
Fixes Licpoll crash on LS-DYNA triad setup. The problem was found at the current support on LS-DYNA.
It has an issue with parsing the data that has QUEUED program information which results in licpoll
crash when collecting LS-DYNA data. It is now fixed in this patch, Licpoll parser for LS-DYNA is now
updated to support queued programs information.

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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