Flexnet License Monitoring With rrdtool

Flexnet License Monitoring With rrdtool

Some of you may know the commercial Flexnet Licencing Application
(©Macrovision). It’s a client-server based solution for managing the
usage of socalled Flexnet-enabled applications. You can hold licenses of
more than one product on one license-server. As you typically have to
buy licenses and licenses can be expensive it would be nice to have a
monitoring solution, to see the utilization of the precious licenses,
wether they are underutilized (so money is wasted) or are always fully
utilized (so that you can suspect that sometimes people can not do their
work, or only delayed) which is also a waste of resources. As far as I know there are commercial applications for performing
such reports, but again you have to spent money. Why not build a simple
system yourself, which shows the actual and past usage in an “MRTG style”?