Report Log Administration
Each time a report log is rotated, an archive report log file is copied to the machine on which FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications resides.
| • | Rotated report logs are stored with unique file names on the machine on which FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications resides. Each time the active report log is rotated, a new archive file is created. |
| • | Report log archives accumulate to a sizable quantity over time on the license server machine. Consider deleting older archive files that are no longer needed. |
On the FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Admin machine:
| 1. | The report log is copied in preparation for loading to the FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Reporting database. |
| 2. | FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications validates the report log file to verify that the: |
| • | File can be read. |
| • | Log header exists. |
| • | Header has a hostname. |
| 3. | A catalog entry is made in the FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Reporting database. The entry includes the following information: |
| • | File name |
| • | Host name |
| • | File size |
| 4. | Usage data contained in the report log is parsed and loaded to the FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Reporting database. |
| 5. | Report log metadata—containing, for example, feature names which are used to populate menus in the Report Configuration pages—is loaded to the FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Reporting database. |
| 6. | The usage data contained in the FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications Reporting database is available to report configurations. |
Note:A copy of the report log is also retained on the FlexNet Agent machine in the data directory for the FlexNet Agent installation.
FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications archive logs are stored on the license server machine with file names of the format:
<server_name>-<vendor_name>-yyMMddhhmmss-<sequence_number>.rl
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Component |
Description |
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<server_name> |
Name of the license server host. |
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<vendor_name> |
Name of the vendor daemon. |
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yyMMddhhmmss |
Timestamp (in 24-hour format) corresponding to the time at which the report log is rotated by the vendor daemon, local to the system that originally created the report log. |
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<sequence_number> |
A running sequence number that the FlexNet Agent appends to the file name to ensure uniqueness if the report log is rotated twice within the same second. |
For example, consider the archive report log with the name:
TestLicenseServer1-avend10-150910104137-401.rl
This file was written on September 10, 2015 at 10:41:37 by the vendor daemon avend10 on the license server TestLicenseServer1.
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