License Manager Exporter

A prometheus exporter for license manager.

This project aims to support a wide range of license manager. The following license manager are currently supported:

• rlm
• lmx
• mathlm

The following metrics are exported:

• licenses_feature_issued_total: How many licenses of a feature are available.
• licenses_feature_reserved_total: How many licenses of a feature are reserved.
• licenses_feature_used_total: How many licenses of a feature are used.
• licenses_feature_expiration_seconds: Until when the licenses of a feature are valid.
• licenses_manager_status_total: Value of 1 when the license manager is reachable otherwise 0.

Get started

Install the module:

pip install git+https://codeberg.org/Zauberbutter/license_manager_exporter.git

Create a config.yml:

collector:
  port: 9000
  server: license-server.example.com
  binaries:
    monitorlm_binary: './monitorlm'
    almutil_binary: './almutil'
    rlmutil_binary: './rlmutil'
products:
  - name: esacomp
    license_manager: rlm
    vendor: esacomp
    port: 1000
  - name: mathematica
    license_manager: mathlm
    vendor:
    port: 2000
  - name: altair
    license_manager: lmx
    include_feature: # ignore all except…
      - HyperWorks
    vendor:
    port: 3000
  - name: spss
    license_manager: sentinel
    vendor:
    port:

Run it:

python -m license_manager_exporter --config /path/to/config.yaml

Acknowledgements

This project was heavily inspired by the following prometheus exporters:

• Fritz! exporter for prometheus
• FLEXlm exporter