What's New

New features available in InsightPro for License Analytics.

Organizational Hierarchy

  • The Sync Servers option in the Organization Hierarchy tool performs data synchronization from each defined Active Directory (AD) server and updates the created hierarchies with the latest information.
  • Configurable parameter to filter the parameter for active users in AD (For example, userAccountControl).

Reporting

Enhanced Usage Efficiency and Reservation Efficiency binning to support token-based licensing systems.

Smart Agent

  • Smart Agents can now be installed in a user-specified location and run under a non-root or system user account.
  • Upon startup, Smart Agent now schedules monitored vendors in sequential order to better distribute machine resource usage.
  • The Smart Agent auto-discovery script is now written in native Golang, replacing the previous PowerShell (Windows) and Bash (Linux) implementations.
  • Timeouts are better now specially to work smoothly when agent is working against slow machines/network.
  • When monitored vendors take longer to respond than the polling cycle, then the next cycle is canceled and not queued.

Project Assignment

Introduced LM_PROJECT assignment to users to support Altair Monitor use cases via command-line and GUI based interfaces. License Server Statistics project attribute is parsed for license vendors who support this.

Improved Logging

  • Logging is improved across the product based on recent customer interactions and field feedback to facilitate debugging across the product.
  • Clickhouse system logs retention policy is fixed now to avoid indefinite retention.

License Parsers

  • Bug fixes in FlexLM, Kuli, and LMX vendor handling.
  • An example of License Server Parser Plugin based on CSV data format is packaged in the product. This is extremely helpful in cases where a particular license vendor is not supported by OTB list and field team / customer wants to add this support using our extension mechanism.

Other Enhancements

  • NavOps and InsightPro for License Analytics can co-exist on same machine provided if they have enough hardware resources.
  • Various functional and performance bug fixes.