Virtual Product Development has enabled companies to predict with confidence that their product will thrive in the real world, helping them to the solve the most complex problems which are limited only by imagination. This wouldn’t have been possible without ANSYS, the market leader in engineering simulations, that is used by many companies spanning enterprises to startups. Consequently, one of the prime goals of these product companies is license management – manage software license requirements among different teams effectively without affecting team’s productivity or asset utilization.

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This ANSYS How To video takes you on a tour of the new ANSYS License Management Center. The ANSYS License Management Center is a browser-based user interface. Procedimento Para Instalar ANSYS Inc License Manager 2020.X (Windows E Linux) Procedimento Para Instalar Os Produtos ANSYS 2020.X (Windows) Procedimento Para Instalar O ANSYS Electromagnetics 2019.X (Windows E Linux).

In this article, I will describe the new developments in ANSYS 18.0 that will make it easier for managers and license administrators to manage licenses better.

How To Get Started?

To begin with, the first step in managing the licensing resources is to track current usage of these resources. Previously, tracking and preparing the reports of ANSYS software license usage was always a tedious manual task of looking into the log files and searching for a specific license. As a result, one common question I received on CADFEM’s support hotline -“Is there a better way to track our license usage?” With the release of ANSYS 18.0, this job has eased to a certain extent.

With ANSYS 18.0, License Management Center provides the tools which help license administrators to obtain effective reports from the usage log files. Therefore, reports can be extracted about anything from current usage to peak usage and license denials in a tabular or a histogram form for a requested duration.

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Opening the ANSYS License Management Center will open up the license manager in the default browser.

• Windows: Start -> Programs -> ANSYS Inc. License Manager -> ANSYS License Management Center
• Linux:

  /ansys_inc/shared_files/licensing/start_lmcenter

New subsection has been added for reporting with 4 options. We will discuss each of these options in brief.

Current License Usage

With the View Current License Usageoption, you can track current license usage. It highlights all available licenses on the server along with the maximum number of licenses. It also reports the current total license usage along with the license usage per user; different color for each user. In addition, clicking on Show Tabular Data will provide you more information about user count, user names, hostname and Start date in tabular format.

Also, you can obtain similar data from Client ANSLIC_Admin Utility for older versions of ANSYS. For the manager and organization, the most important report is the licenses usage over a period of time. Next three options will help them in getting it.

License Usage History

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This option helps in tracking the usage of license for a given period of time. Click on License Usage History and choose the duration and then click on Generate to obtain the histogram for the given duration. Once the data is generated, you get the option of monitoring the data for a specific license. Even a customized duration can be specified to track a particular license usage.

Peak License Usage

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License usage history report can be confusing at times even for experienced users. Hence if you want to track more simplified averaged peak usage per day for a given period of time, please select Peak License Usage option. By following similar steps as for License Usage History, select the time period and hit generate.

Here you will have more options for filtering out the data with respect to licenses type and months of specific interest. Along with it, you can also extract data for a complete week (24/7) or only for working days (24/5). Clicking on Show Tabular Data provides daily, weekly and monthly average of each license in a tabular form. Now, that’s going to be quite useful for the managers and licenses administrators.

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License Denials

Similar to Peak License Usage, the License Denials option will show the average denial of license due to insufficient licenses or for any other reason for a day for requested time duration. This helps in tracking the requirement and planning for future needs.

Though the Reporting Tool in ANSYS doesn’t include more sophisticated options and filtering methods, it allows managers to track the license usage in many different ways without manually going through log files or investing in third-party tools.

License Management Made Easy

Thanks to ANSYS 18.0, License Management Center is even more potent and useful for you – the department heads, managers and license administrators. You can monitor license usage in real-time or historically, evaluate peak license demands and license denials. As a result, this new feature will allow you to evaluate asset utilization, manage internal license demands, forecast the need to acquire additional license among others.

There’s also a nice YouTube video that is a little more crisper than my article. It covers pretty most of the options that I have described in this article. If you are short on time, this video may help.

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I would like to know if there are questions regarding license management that you’ve not been able to address so far. Maybe I can help? Hence please do use the comments section below to reach out to me. I’ll be glad to be of help.

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