Advanced FlexNet Usage Management Activities

The following are some more advanced activities for producers who use FlexNet Operations with FlexNet Usage Management.

Topic

Description

Manually Creating a License Server

Shows how to manually create a new license server instance in the FlexNet Cloud Licensing Service and then map the entitlement line item for the metered product to it.

Uploading Historical Usage

Very briefly discusses the option to directly upload usage data for testing or demonstrations.

Reconciliation Summaries

Explains how to programmatically pull usage and overage data from the FlexNet Operations back office.

Obtaining Raw Usage Data

Provides an overview on how to use the Usage Data Extract job on the Producer Portal and the data extract RESTful services to retrieve raw usage data from FlexNet Operations.

Usage Data via SOAP

Introduces the getUsage web service as a method of retrieving real-time, reconciled usage data for an account.