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PID of Cadence process through lmstat

acook

Is it possible to track down the PID of a process that is using cadence licenses?

For example, through the lmstat command, I get something like:

auser remotehost :1044 APS Base (v12.100) (licserver/5280 7129), start Fri 10/10 16:56, 2 licenses

There is no information here about what the PID of the process is on the remotehost. Is there a way to track the PID down?

  • Not directly. You could check all the processes from that user on that machine and in particular for spectre simulations, particularly those which start at a similar time to the license checkout (queuing might confuse the time correlation though).
  • OK, thank you Andrew.
    I was hoping to avoid the timestamp approach for the reason you mention.
    I was able to get the port on the license server that each simulation is using via netstat:
    netstat -A inet -p | grep $SIM_PID
    Do you think I can get any further information now that I know which port is open on the lmserver?

  • I don't think knowing the port id will help you very much, because lmstat doesn't tell you which port id is being used for each feature - it tells you a handle, which I think is only useful for one of the lm commands unrelated to finding out which is using it.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • Is there any kind of logging that can be enabled on the lmgr side?

  • hi there,

    Is there any progress on this? I'm also interested in getting the end user process info.

    Regards,

    Steven

  • Steven,

    I'm not sure what "progress" you were expecting. I already said that there was no support for this.

    I realised I didn't answer the last question in the thread - there is some additional logging that can be enabled (if my memory is correct) but this is for the purposes of FlexNet Manager. This is license management software provided by Flexera Software, the company that provides our licensing infrastructure. That said, I've not looked at this for many years so I'm not up to date with how it works nowadays or precisely what it offers - you'd need to contact Flexera for that.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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