6.110 FAQ-1198 How do concurrent license users know who is occupying the license at any given time?

Last Update: 7/10/2024

A concurrent license type means the purchased number of licenses are floating assigned among clients. If you are using a concurrent license, sometimes you may want to see who is checking out a license at the time, especially when all the available licenses are in used.

As the administrator of a concurrent license, you can always open LMTools and Perform Status Enquiry on Server Status tab. At the end of the output text, you can find the license check-out status.

As a client, you can choose one of the following ways to query license status from a client computer.

Method 1

  1. Copy the LMTools.exe file to the client computer(s).
  2. Open LMTOOLS and go to the Service/License File tab.
  3. Select Configuration using License File radio button.
  4. Type
    @SERVERNAME or @IP_Address_Of_Server
    in the edit box, where SERVERNAME is your license server name, and make sure to include the “@” symbol at the beginning. E.g. suppose your license server names “OriginServer”, set as following:
    Config using Lic File FAQ 1198.PNG
  5. On the Server Status tab, click Perform Status Enquiry button and the output server status will show which clients occupy the licenses at the moment.
    Server Status Enquiry FAQ 1198.PNG

Method 2

  1. Copy the lmstat.exe file to the client computer(s). This file can be found in the \Tools\command line folder under the license manager folder.
  2. Open a text editor (e.g. Notepad), enter the following command lines and save it as a .bat file. 
    @echo off 
<path_to_lmstat.exe>\lmstat.exe -a -c <port_no.>@SERVERNAME 
pause


    where <path_to_lmstat.exe> is the path to lmstat.exe file on the client computer, and SERVERNAME is your license server name. port_no. is the port number lmgrd.exe uses. It can be omitted if the default port 27000 is used, but the "@" symbol cannot be omitted. E.g. suppose you copy the lmstat.exe file to folder path C:\Tools\OriginLicenseServer\command line\, your license server names “OriginServer” and use port 27001, enter following lines in the .bat file: 

    @echo off 
"C:\Tools\OriginLicenseServer\command line\lmstat.exe"  -a -c 27001@OriginServer
pause
  3. You can always double-click this .bat file to check the status.

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