Where to read license usage from?

[#1]

Hi,

I want to create an application for license usage analysis, but I don't know where to read that info from, and I've given up on making the QMS API work. Any help will be appreciated, thanks.

[#2]

Hi David,

I've added myself to the Qlikview Management API but I'm getting a "Service Key has expired" error. Please see attached image.

Thanks!

[dvasseur]

Humm, strange ! Service key is valid for 1 min I think, do you have a lot of cals/documents on your server ? Or maybe AD groups resolution is taking some time...

Anyway, here is an updated version with some more calls to retrieve a service key, quick and dirty but should be enough for now !

[#4]

It works now and it's exactly what I needed, thanks a lot!

One question, is it possible to run the exe file in batch mode? I'd like run it everyday as part of my publisher tasks.

[dvasseur]

Great !

Right now, it cannot be run in batch mode. I could rewrite it that way but I may prefer to implement it as a web application. That way you could directly extract data into a qlikview application, for example:

CALS:

load * from [http://<server>/qvscalmanager/get_cals];

Docs_info:

load * from [http://<server>/qvscalmanager/get_docsinfo];

...

The only drawback is that it would require IIS support, hummm... Or could it be integrated into QVWebServer ? Or maybe I could write it as a plugin for QVSource (hi Chris ;-))...

Well, as I said, it just a beta/poc right now, I'll be happy to have your feedback on this ! So 'batch exe file' or 'integrated into IIS/webserver' ?

[#6]

Integrated into webserver is a much better idea.

On Jul 29, 2011, at 6:18 PM, David Vasseur <

[#7]

David, great example!

At our site there is a need to run this in batch mode, could you possibly make the Server configurable (app.config) & the Retrieve command execute on run perhaps? That would be great. If you lack the time I could do this if you send me the source code. Thanks, Diederik

[rwunderlich]

Great tool David! Thanks for posting it.

-Rob

[dvasseur]

Good to see you find it useful !

I'm on vacation right now but I'll be back at the end of august and will do a web and command line version. I will also release the source code after some cleanning!

In the meantime, feel free to create a nice QVW for it

[#10]

Hi David,

I'm very happy with your application, but i also want to schedule it or want to execute it during the script.

Maby you can change it in a way so you can execute it in a cmd line en add a paramater for the servername.

I hope i triggered you're fingers .

Thanks anyway!

Greetz, Halmar

[#11]

Hello,

I have just downloaded your program. Unfortunately I just get the message »Connecting to QMS server 'localhost'...failed!«.

Any idea why I can't connect to the server even though I'm executing the program directly on the server.

Thanks & regards