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The Dashboard is the initial interface to FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications, enabling you to quickly view summary information about your vendor daemons and license servers, FlexNet Agents, most-active features, and alert messages.

Click the Dashboard tab to display the Dashboard page.

Tip:To configure the number of rows displayed in the status tables, use the Manager System Configuration page. Specify a number in the Summary Table Size box.

Vendor Daemon Status

The Vendor Daemon Status table shows the status of the vendor daemons in your environment—whether they are up (running), down (not running), or whether the status is unknown. The table also provides the name of the license server on which the vendor daemon resides.

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Click the name of a vendor daemon to configure or manage the vendor daemon.

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Click the name of a license server to configure or manage the license server.

Agent Status

The Agent Status table shows the current status of FlexNet Agents registered with FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications— whether they are up (running), down (not running), or whether the status is unknown. The table also provides the name of the FlexNet Agent host.

Click the name of a FlexNet Agent to go to the Edit Agent page, where you can modify settings for the agent.

Alerts

The Alerts table displays current alert messages, including the date and time the alert was triggered. Alerts are categorized and color-coded according to severity.

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Error (red)

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Warning (yellow)

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Information (blue)

To dismiss an alert from the Alerts table, click its Dismiss button. You can dismiss all alerts using the Alerts Summary page.

If the number of current alerts exceeds the number of rows in the Alerts table, click the more link to go to the Alerts Summary page, where you can view all of the current alerts.

Most Active Features

The Most Active Features table lists the 10 features with the highest usage percentage. To determine the usage percentage (% Licenses in Use column), the number of licenses currently in use is divided by the total number of licenses available for a particular feature.

This table contains the following information:

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Feature name—Name of the active feature. Click the feature name to view feature usage by license pool. This enables you to view more specific information about the feature’s usage, including the feature version and license server name. You can also view a list of users who have used the feature.

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Vendor daemon—Name of the vendor daemon that serves the feature.

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Licenses in use—Number of licenses in use for that feature, along with the total number of licenses available. For example, if the Licenses in Use value is 75/100, it means that 75 licenses are in use out of a total of 100 available licenses.

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% licenses in use—Percentage of licenses in use for the feature. This is the number of licenses in use, divided by the total number of available licenses for the feature.

Click the more link under the list of feature names to see a summary of usage by feature.

Freeing Licenses

Sometimes, an application stops responding (or hangs) and consumes a license that you want to free for use by someone else in your enterprise. If you need to free a license so it can be used by another user (if the license server was configured to allow licenses to be freed), click the feature name for which you want to free licenses. For more information, see Freeing Licenses by User.