scVENUS License Tracker
Cutting software costs by applying intelligent license monitoring
Companies that use applications with FLEXlm, LUM or similar licensing mechanisms often do not know exactly how their licenses are used on a daily basis.
scVENUS License Tracker (scVLT) is a license monitoring solution that allows to assess the actual utilization of software licenses and to present it graphically at a glance. The information gathered by the monitoring software can help to better utilize licenses and to bill the licenses based on actual usage. scVLT is a straightforward solution that has been tried and tested by s+c customers for many years and has lead to significant savings.
Typical scenarios for the application of scVLT
- Intransparent license utilization: How are available licenses used? Do peaks of utilization arise regularly? Are too many licenses provided on spec?
- Uncoordinated utilization of licenses: Is it possible to improve crossdepartmental utilization of licenses?
- Costly license accounting: How can license utilization be quickly and easily accounted according to user groups or projects?
- Heterogeneous license management: How can heterogeneous license mechanisms be efficiently administrated?
Design of scVLT
scVLT consist of three components:
- Real-time monitoring: graphically displays the current and past usage or utilization of software licenses, respectively.
- Accounting: stores detailed information about license utilization that allows to account license utilization times according to project groups.
- Health monitoring: monitors the license infrastructure in the background and warns of potential problems.
Important features of the solution
- real-time view on the current license utilization
- graphical reports of the utilization of various licenses
- automatical periodical reports of license utilization times according to user groups
- monitoring of rejected license requests
- early reminders for expiring licenses
- optional: individual analysis, accounting and management reports
Benefits of scVLT
- accurate overview of license usage
- accounting of license utilization based on actual usage
- central reports for all departments
- securing the license availability
- saving unnecessary license expenses
Supported license mechanisms
The following license mechanisms, among others, can be monitored using scVLT:
- FLEXlm
- LUM
- DSLS
- ADTF
- beta_lm
- Elan
- GHS
- IPG
- LSTC
- LICMAN
- LServer
- OLicense
- PERMAS
- Sentinel
- SLiM
- RLM
- vlms
Additional license mechanisms on demand.
System requirements
- scVLT master: Linux server (also virtual or as appliance)
- analysis Wiki: Apache server
- license server: Linux, UNIX, Windows