There are many reports available in LAMUM. This guide will walk you through them. We recommend determining with your management about which reports are most useful.
Current Checkout Reports
- Realtime data
- Who has licenses checked out, and for how long
- Catch hoarders and those with multiple licenses
- New :8182 ‘Restricted View’ (9.3)
Historical Usage Reports
- Patterns of checkouts and Usage over time
- List of Users in a given time period
- How close to capacity are you running?
- Usage Trends over extended periods
- Chargeback/Allocation reports
Types of Historical Usage reports in LAMUM
Delivery Options
Feature Usage Graphs
- By Tag > Feature,
- Any time period
- Dynamic, turn off unneeded graph elements
- Save as .jpg image
- Multiple Features Graph
- Same Tag, multiple features plotted in same graph (up to 6 features)
- Also available as a Multiple Features Table
- Multi-view Graph Set
- Up to 8 graphs from same Tag
- Batch only
Heatmaps
- Visualize Checkout behavior 24×7
- Predict day / time when Denials may occur
- Visualize Denial occurrence 24×7
- Useful for:
- Engineers
- Multiple time zone licenses (WAN-Global)
- Only for short periods (< 1 month)
- Save as .jpg
User Detail reports
- By Tag > Feature
- Understand who your Users are for given Feature, in a given time period
- User Details: review all Tools (features) used by a selected engineer, in a given time period (Performance Appraisal?)
- Individual usage ‘%’ for given Tool, Time
- Export to Excel
- Chargeback by User
Group Usage
- Table of Usage by Groups
- Graph of Usage by Group/Feature
- By Tag > Feature
- Group Details: review all Tools (features) used by all engineers in a selected Group, in a given time period
- Group usage ‘%’ for given Tool, Time
- Export to Excel
- Chargeback by Group
Creating Groups
- Interactive method
- Off-line method (Excel import)
- Active Directory method
- With auto-sync (9.3.1)
Concurrent Use Graphs
- By Tag > Feature
- 24×7 (if WAN Global Users)
- M-F 8-5 (if LAN Users, same time zone)
- How many Floating Licenses do you need?
- % of time at each actual level of
- Concurrent use
- Maximum number of concurrent checkouts
- Determine “Probability of a Denial”
- Save as .jpg
Important to review before “Renewal”
Denials
- FlexLM
- Flex Debug Log, by Tag
- Need unobstructed access
- May need to set up a rotation cron
- Debug Log must be read/write
- Set up Flex Denial Parser
- DSLS
Denial Reports
- Denials Overview (across all Tags)
- Filter on Denial Code
- Denials by Tag > Feature
- Heatmap Graph
- Denials History Graph
- Denial Details for all Users, for given Tag> Feature, and time period
- Denial Details for specific User
~5% Denial probability is acceptable
Zero-use reports
- By Tag
- Comprehensive (across all Tags)
- What features have not been checked out
- Look for features that cost extra money!
- Do engineers need training?
- Copy to Engineering Manager
- Export to Excel
Great monthly or quarterly Batch report
Multiple Graph Set
- 9.3
- Batch only
- Up to 8 Graphs per set, per Tag
- Usage Graph
- Top 10 by Count and by Duration
- Heatmaps: Checkouts and Denials
- Concurrent-use: 24×7 and M-F 8-5
- Users Overview
Features by Tag
- Batch report only
- Selected Features by Tag – Graphs
- Selected Features by Tag – Tables
Averages
- All used Features, by Tag
- Comprehensive (across all Tags)
- Total Usage Time, in given period
- Average Checkout Time
- Useful for setting up “Long Checkout Alert”
- Average number of concurrent Users
- Number times at Max
7-day On-demand, or Batch for longer periods
Combined Feature Reports
- Only if same Tool is offered on multiple License Servers
- Combined Feature Graph
- With Feature use Total line
- Combined Feature Table
- Colors can altered
On-demand or Batch for Graph report, Batch for Table report
Multiple Feature Reports
- Up 6 Features, same Tag, plotted together in a graph, for given time period
- With Feature use Total line
- Correlation of use?
- Colors can be altered
- Up 6 Features, same Tag, with all User
- Details in a Table, for given time period
Delivery methods
- Interactive
- On-demand (Favorites; User Dashboards)
- Batch (Email; Folders) (must be set up in advance)
Batch
Meet with management and show all the reports available. Choose the report. Choose a time period. Choose delivery method. Create a list. Each Manager will be different!
- Weekly (last 7 days, arrives Monday)
- Monthly (last 30 days, arrives 1st day of calendar month)
- Quarterly (last 90 days, arrives 1st day of calendar quarter)
- Yearly (last 365 days, arrives 1st day of year)