ArcGIS License Tracker

A web application to display current and historical license usage from a concurrent use (floating) license server.

Features

• Easily view current and historical license usage
• Export license data - users, products and workstations to multiple file formats.
• Support for multiple license servers

Requirements

• Python >= 3.6
• Windows OS
• Local access to the lmutil.exe included with the license server installation.

Getting Started

1. Clone the repo

   > git clone https://github.com/ishiland/arcgis-license-tracker.git
   > cd arcgis-license-tracker

2. Initialize and activate a virtualenv:

   > python -m virtualenv venv
   > venv\Scripts\activate

3. Install the dependencies:

   > pip install -r requirements.txt

4. In app/arcgis_config.py, configure the following:

   • license_servers - List of license servers to track. The default port is 27000.
   • lm_util - Path to your lmutil.exe.

5. Initialize the database

   Initialize the database using:

   > python manage.py recreate_db

6. Test your license server configuration:

   > python manage.py read_once

7. Run the development server:

   > python manage.py runserver

8. Navigate to http://localhost:5000

Production

After successfully testing in development, set the FLASK_ENV variable to production then initialize a production database using python manage.py recreate_db.

Task Scheduler

Configure Windows Task Scheduler to update the license data. The following settings should work for most cases:

In 'General' check 'Run Whether user is logged on'.

The 'Trigger' should be set to run between 1 and 5 minutes. Make sure to check the 'Enabled' box.

The 'Action' should look similar to this:

• Program/script: path the to python executable in your virtual environment
• Add arguments: manage.py read_once
• Start in: The root directory of the application where the manage.py file is. Ex. C:\arcgis-license-tracker\

Deploy

Deploy to a production web server. Here are some helpful guides and tools for deploying to IIS:

• GitHub Gist
• wfastcgi

There is also a sample web.config for reference included in this repo. A summary of other deployment options here.

Tests

Tests can be ran using python manage.py test

Further Thoughts

• It would be good to have this running with a library like ApScheduler to run the license reading process but I ran out of time trying to get it working w/IIS. Windows Task Scheduler is an extra step but seems to work fine.

• The database design is as follows: