Managing (Rotating) Report Logs
As a vendor daemon runs for a period of time, the size of the report log increases. If your enterprise has a lot of license usage activity, the report log can become very large in a short period of time.
FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications provides the ability to automatically archive the usage data from the active report log to a new archive report log file, thus flushing out the active report log file to zero bytes. This process is known as rotating the report log. See Report Log Administration for details about archived report logs.
You can configure a rotation schedule based on the rate at which usage data is generated. Each time the active report log is rotated, the resulting new archive file is cataloged, the usage data is loaded into the FlexNet Reporting database, and the data becomes available to report configurations.
When you schedule the report log rotation time, the time you need to specify is based on the FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications server time, and not your local time if that is different.
To set up an automatic report log rotation schedule:
| 1. | From the Servers tab, under Vendor Daemons, click Vendor Daemon Summary. |
| 2. | Click the name for the vendor daemon of interest. |
| 3. | Modify parameters in the Report Log section of the Configure and Manage Vendor Daemon page. |
| 4. | Click Save. |
Note:The only usage data available to report configurations is that which has been rotated. To ensure the newest data is available for configurations, rotate the report log manually by clicking the Rotate Report Log Now button on the Configure and Manage Vendor Daemon page. Depending on your license usage, you should wait a few hours or a few days after enabling report logging before rotating the report log to allow a significant amount of usage data to accumulate.
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