Practical guides for the people who actually run license servers.
Field notes on getting cleaner license data, finding real savings, and surviving vendor audits. New articles land here whenever we write them.
You bought LiMon for a few apps you know cold. Then it spread — and the people reading it stopped being you. A few minutes of curation keeps a growing license portfolio legible to everyone who now depends on it.
How LiMon, OpenLM, and Flexera FlexNet Manager actually differ — deployment, agents, pricing model, and who each tool is really built for. Written by LiMon, with the bias stated up front.
A practical guide to monitoring FlexLM/FlexNet license servers — what lmstat gives you, what it can't, and how to stand up real monitoring with Docker, DEB, or RPM.
Three questions every license manager gets asked — 'do we have it?', 'why can they use it and I can't?', and 'when did this change?' — and the three LiMon screens that answer them.
License servers serve features. Renewals and audits talk about applications. How LiMon bridges the two — and where the gotchas live.
On on-prem license servers, nobody has your usage data unless you keep it. How to turn server logs — denials included — into evidence that holds up at renewal and audit, and what quietly ruins it.
Why utilization numbers don't translate directly into renewal decisions, and what your engineering managers know that the data doesn't.
The three ways teams typically monitor license servers — scripts, enterprise asset suites, or a purpose-built tool — and what each one actually costs you.
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