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

Copy the LMTools.exe file to the client computer(s).
Open LMTOOLS and go to the Service/License File tab.
Select Configuration using License File radio button.
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:
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.

Method 2

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.
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
```
You can always double-click this .bat file to check the status.

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