License Monitoring - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory -许可监控SLAC国家加速器实验室—.pptVIP

HEPIX 2005 Hege Hansbakk - Managing software licences Managing software licences Background Software Licensing LicMon – Licence Monitoring LicMon – Future plans Background CERN IT-DES supports and distributes more than 100 software packages Most packages are commercial Commercial software requires licences Software Licensing A software licence deals with issues of copyright law and product liability law Two general licensing schemes: open source or closed source Closed source restrict the users actions, and require that the user signs-up to the licence Software Licensing Several closed source licensing schemes Single user Node locked Network/Floating Site wide Home use A licence usually comes as a text file Software Licensing Tasks Purchase Challenge: How many do we need? Installation Challenge: On which server does a specific licence run? Availability Challenge: Assure accessibility Software Licensing Tasks Renewal Challenge: How do you remember all the different expiration dates? Retirement Challenge: How can we be sure a licence is unused? Keep track of supported products Inform users about updates and problems Licence Management Systems Provide licences to end users Monitor the usage of the licences Challenge: Many different systems Macrovision FlexLM, IBM LUM, Wolfram MathLM, Microsoft SMS, Sassafras K2 Challenge: No common interface LicMon – Licence Monitoring Infrastructure to deal with the challenges of software licensing Developed at CERN by IT-DES Open Source Licence Consists of four parts Licence Servers Log Parser Product Database Web Interface LicMon Infrastructure LicMon – Licence Servers Availability of Service very important Service must be up at all times Licence manager daemons as well We have redundant servers 2*3 Solaris 3+1+1+1 Windows Not all licence managers allow fallback setup Monitor servers and daemons and start/stop daemons If vendor is not flexible enough: no fallback LicMon – Log Parser/Product DB Read log files of di