Special Action On No-license Condition

If you have more users trying to run your application than you have Application Server licenses installed, there will be times when some users will receive the response that there are no more license units available at that moment. You can monitor how often this happens, so that you can determine how many additional Application Server licenses you need to purchase.

To help you monitor no-license conditions, AppTrack runs the shell script /var/mfaslmf/nolicense every time that it is unable to satisfy a license unit request. A single parameter is passed to the script; this parameter identifies the directory of the installed Application Server, so that different applications can be separately identified. The script then writes the name of the directory, and the date and time at which the attempt to run failed, to the file /var/mfaslmf/USERLOG.

You can edit the supplied nolicense script to your requirements. Note the following:

• The supplied script shows how to mail a message to a specific user each time the script is invoked.
• The script should not launch directly or indirectly any licensing utilities. The script is for reporting only.
• If you do not want to use this monitoring facility, you can disable the nolicense script. To do this we recommend you comment out the unwanted lines.
• AppTrack executes the nolicense script only if it is owned by root, and has no write permissions for Group or Other. This is to prevent anyone other than the person who is responsible for license administration from editing the script.