23. License Usage Reports

Users can monitor FlexLM license usage in real time through direct queries to the license server from Foretify Manager. This feature provides visibility into current license consumption, helping users analyze usage patterns, identify availability issues, and take corrective action when needed.

The License Usage Report feature allows any authenticated user to view:

• Total licenses issued per feature
• Licenses currently in use
• Available (free) licenses
• Details of active license checkouts (username, hostname, start time)

This is useful for monitoring and troubleshooting license consumption.

23.1 Access control to license usage reports

Any authenticated user can access this API, including users with the FMANAGER_DATA_UPLOADER role who do not check out a license when logging in.

To enable access:

1. Create a user with FMANAGER_DATA_UPLOADER role using the create_user SDK utility.
2. Generate an access token for it using the generate_access_token utility.
3. Use the access token when calling the API.

23.2 Licence Usage Report API

Endpoint

GET /api/licenses/report

Authentication

Bearer token authentication is required.

Response

Returns a LicenseSummary object:

{
  "summaryByFeature": [
    {
      "info": {
        "name": "FTX_DEVELOPER",
        "issued": 100,
        "used": 25,
        "free": 75
      },
      "checkouts": [
        {
          "username": "john.doe",
          "hostname": "workstation-123",
          "startTime": "Mon 1/20 10:30",
          "serverInfo": "license02.foretellix.local/30001 48856"
        }
      ],
      "valid": true
    }
  ],
  "valid": true
}

23.2.1 Example request (curl)

curl -X GET "http://fmanager.foretellix.com/api/licenses/report" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <your-token>" \
  -H "Accept: application/json"

23.3 Python SDK for License Usage Report

Usage

from ftx.shell import client

# Connect to FManager
client.login(hostname="fmanager.foretellix.com", username="user", access_token="access_token")

# Get license usage report
report = client.get().licenses().report()

# Access the data
for feature in report.get("summaryByFeature", []):
    info = feature["info"]
    print(f"{info['name']}: {info['used']}/{info['issued']} in use ({info['free']} free)")
    for checkout in feature.get("checkouts", []):
        print(f"  - {checkout['username']}@{checkout['hostname']} since {checkout['startTime']}")

Example output

FTX_DEVELOPER: 25/100 in use (75 free)
  - john.doe@workstation-123 since Mon 1/20 10:30
  - jane.smith@dev-machine since Mon 1/20 11:45
shared_runtime_pool: 0/10000 in use (10000 free)

23.3.1 Data Validation for License Usage Report

The service validates the returned license data for internal consistency using the following checks:

• The number of active checkouts matches the reported used count
• The free counts equals issued - used
• The issued and used values are non-negative

If validation fails, the valid field is set to false. Data is still returned to allow inspection. Always check the valid field at both the report level and the per-feature level to detect inconsistencies.