FLEXlm Exporter

Prometheus exporter for FLEXlm License Manager lmstat license information.

Install

go install github.com/mjtrangoni/flexlm_exporter

Building

cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/mjtrangoni/flexlm_exporter
make

Configuration

This is an illustrative example of the configuration file in YAML format.

# FlexLM Licenses to be monitored.
---
licenses:
  - name: app1
    license_file: /usr/local/flexlm/licenses/license.dat.app1
    features_to_exclude: feature1,feature2
    monitor_users: True
    monitor_reservations: True
    monitor_versions: False
  - name: app2
    license_server: 28000@host1,28000@host2,28000@host3
    features_to_include: feature5,feature30
    monitor_users: True
    monitor_reservations: True
    monitor_versions: False

Notes:

1. It is possible to define a license with a path in license_file, that has to be readable from the exporter instance, or with license_server in a port@host combination format.
2. You can exclude some features from exporting with features_to_exclude, or export some defined and exclude the rest with feature_to_include.

Running

./flexlm_exporter <flags>

Docker images

Docker images are available on,

1. Quay.io. $ docker pull quay.io/mjtrangoni/flexlm_exporter:latest
2. Docker. $ docker pull mjtrangoni/flexlm_exporter:latest
3. GHCR. $ docker pull ghcr.io/mjtrangoni/flexlm_exporter:latest

Please make sure that SELinux is not running in your host, or run the container as root.

You can launch a flexlm_exporter container with,

$ export DOCKER_REPOSITORY="quay.io/mjtrangoni/flexlm_exporter:latest"
$ export LMUTIL_LOCAL="PATH where your lmutil binary is located"
$ export CONFIG_PATH_LOCAL="PATH where your exporter config file is located"
$ docker run --name flexlm_exporter -d -p 9319:9319 \
    --volume $LMUTIL_LOCAL:/usr/bin/flexlm/ \
    --volume $CONFIG_PATH_LOCAL:/home/exporter/config/licenses.yml \
    $DOCKER_REPOSITORY --path.lmutil="/usr/bin/flexlm/lmutil" \
    --path.config="/home/exporter/config/licenses.yml"

Metrics will now be reachable at http://localhost:9319/metrics.

What's exported?

1. lmutil lmstat -v information.
2. lmutil lmstat -c license_file -a or lmutil lmstat -c license_server -a license information.
3. lmutil lmstat -c license_file -i or lmutil lmstat -c license_server -i license features expiration date.

Dashboards

1. Grafana Dashboard

Alerting

Prometheus rules

Prometheus rules for alerting with Prometheus Alertmanager.

groups:
- name: FlexLM
  rules:
  - alert: FlexLmServerDown
    expr: flexlm_server_status == 0
    for: 5m
    labels:
      severity: error
    annotations:
      summary: "Flexlm Error (instance {{ $labels.instance }})"
      description: "FlexLm {{ $labels.collector }} was not successful\n  VALUE = {{ $value }}\n  LABELS: {{ $labels }}"
  - alert: LicenceAvailable
    expr: 100*(flexlm_feature_used / flexlm_feature_issued) > 95
    for: 5m
    labels:
      severity: warning
    annotations:
      summary: "Licence Available Status (instance {{ $labels.instance }})"
      description: "Licence fully used \n  VALUE = {{ $value }}\n  LABELS: {{ $labels }}"
  - alert: LicenseExpiring
    expr: ((flexlm_feature_expiration_seconds - time()) / 86400) < 14
    for: 30m
    labels:
      severity: warning
    annotations:
      summary: License {{ $labels.app }} expiring soon on {{ $labels.instance }}
      description: License {{ $labels.app }} on {{ $labels.instance }} has {{ $labels.features }} features ({{ $labels.licenses }} licenses) expiring in {{ $value }} days

Contributing

Refer to CONTRIBUTING.md

License

Apache License 2.0, see LICENSE.