CheckMK Linux FlexLM Plugin

Monitors FlexLM license feature usage and reports the number of licenses in use
and their total, along with license expiry dates.

Prerequisites on the license server

• A Linux FlexLM license server with lmutil installed.
• The path to lmutil will either be determined by systemd service or via PATH variable.
• The Checkmk Linux agent must be able to run lmutil lmstat -a and
  lmutil lmstat -i.
• Checkmk 2.5.0p6 or newer.

Installation of the MKP

Login into your site and provide the mkp file (for example via scp).

mkp add cmk_linux_flexlm-1.0.1.mkp
mkp enable cmk_linux_flexlm

Copy the agent based plugin to the monitored flexlm server.

• Location on site:

  • local/share/check_mk/agents/plugins/cmk_linux_flexlm.py

• Target location on flexlm server:

  • /usr/lib/check_mk_agent/plugins/cmk_linux_flexlm.py

Run service discovery and accept the deteced services, one for each feature.

Create Service rules and apply them via service label to different amounts of feature licesnes.