You can use Ansible to extract Flexlm information from a remote license server, which is stored in a central place where you can display the information.
I use crontab to extract the information every 15 min and place it in a central place so that users can check the license availability.
- name: Extract Information from ANSYS Lic Server and extract to file
block:
- name: Get FlexLM License Info
ansible.builtin.shell: "/usr/local/ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/linx64/lmutil lmstat -c ../license_files/ansyslmd.lic -a"
register: lmstat_output
- name: Save FlexLM License Output to File on ANSYS Lic Server
copy:
content: "{{ lmstat_output.stdout }}"
dest: "/var/log/ansible_logs/ansys_lmstat.log"
- name: Get FlexLM Output from Remote Server
fetch:
src: "/var/log/ansible_logs/ansys_lmstat.log"
dest: "/usr/local/lic_lmstat_log/ansys_lmstat.log"
flat: yes
The fetch command is useful for fetching files from remote machines and storing them locally in a file tree. For more information, do take a look at Fetch files from remote nodes
At crontab, I fetch the file every 15min
*/15 * * * * /root/ansible_cluster/run_lmstat_licsvr.sh
The run_lmstat_licsvr.sh is simply to call the ansible playbook to run the ansible script above.