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]

I suspect this may be what you are looking for?

http://community.qlik.com/qlikviews/1029

[#3]

that's a good app, but it only reports based on usage, not on what was assigned..in other words, if somebody has assigned a named or doc CAL and doesn't use it, I won't see it in that app.

[#4]

Seems that maybe you could parse the XML file that the server generates

to get your assigned CAL's?

[#5]

that sounds interesting..do you know the name of that file?

[#6]

You would need to dig into the licenses.htm (and likely the css

stylesheets) to figure out where its calling for the CAL details. Sorry,

haven't done any web development in a decade so I'm a bit rusty... there are

also several .pgo files which I suspect store the license details but no

clue how to open/parse them (likely proprietary).

[#7]

I took a look at licenses.htm but after playing around with included js functions , I give up. Do you know of an easier method to do this?

[dvasseur]

I have just started playing with QMS API and I have created a small application to retrieve CAL definitions (Named CAL/Doc CALs, documents authorizations if using DMS). These informations are stored in xml files which can be loaded in a QVW.

Some remarks:

• NET 3.5 required (same as Qlikview Server)
• You have to be in the "Qlikview Administrators" and "Qlikview Management API" groups
• QVS and DSC have to be on the same server
• I have just loaded to files in the QVW, there is no design yet (feel free to contribute 😉
• This is just a beta/proof of concept application, use at your own risk !

You can download the file here: http://dl.excelcio.com/QVSCALManager_beta.zip

Next step: do the same in a WebService so that info can be retrieved within Qlikview with a "load from http://xxx"

PS. for those interested in developping their own applications, check this file C:\Program Files\QlikView\Management Service\QMSAPIDocumentation.chm (should have be stored in the SDK folder IMO...)

[#9]

Hi David,

I'm trying to download but it seems dl.excelcio.com is not available. thanks,

[dvasseur]

Hummm, strange... see the attached file