{"id":72,"date":"2008-06-13T08:30:07","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T13:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cae.tntech.edu\/mwr\/2008\/06\/13\/why-should-i-fill-out-a-contact-form-to-download-flexlm-utilities\/"},"modified":"2024-10-27T14:26:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T14:26:19","slug":"why-should-i-fill-out-a-contact-form-to-download-flexlm-utilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/2008\/06\/13\/why-should-i-fill-out-a-contact-form-to-download-flexlm-utilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Should I Fill Out a Contact Form to Download FlexLM Utilities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So some years ago, Macrovision buys FlexLM, and a few months ago, spins it off into Acresso Software. And now I&#8217;m ready to start <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.cacti.net\/about12450.html\">using Cacti to monitor FlexLM license usage<\/a>, but I need Linux versions of lmutil and related utilities. I could just pull them from a package that uses FlexLM, but I don&#8217;t want to worry about whether or not I got the absolute most recent version (newer lmutils will talk to older servers just fine, but older ones might not talk to newer servers).<\/p>\n<p>Off we go to Acresso&#8217;s downloads page. Fill out a form including my email address, phone, name, and other information. Eventually, I get redirected to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globes.com\/support\/fnp_utilities_download.htm\">this Acresso page, where the lmutil downloads actually are held<\/a>. I grumble a bit because I&#8217;ve filled out the form on something other than the server where I need lmutil, so odds are, they&#8217;ll prevent me from doing the download since I won&#8217;t have some kind of cookie from the original form.<\/p>\n<p>Nope. No security there. Copy the link to the 32-bit Linux lmutil, paste it into a terminal on the server, and go. So from now on, I plan to just return to their target page to do the FlexLM downloads.<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re trying to accomplish here. 99% of the people looking for lmutil or anything else on that download page aren&#8217;t potential Acresso customers, they&#8217;re just looking for newer releases of programs already provided by other software vendors.<\/p>\n<p>But regardless, I&#8217;ve got my graphs running now:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/monitor.cae.tntech.edu\/cacti\/graph_image.php?local_graph_id=525&amp;rra_id=1\" alt=\"Matlab License Usage\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So some years ago, Macrovision buys FlexLM, and a few months ago, spins it off into Acresso Software. And now I&#8217;m ready to start using Cacti to monitor FlexLM license usage, but I need Linux versions of lmutil and related utilities. I could just pull them from a package that uses FlexLM, but I don&#8217;t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/2008\/06\/13\/why-should-i-fill-out-a-contact-form-to-download-flexlm-utilities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Should I Fill Out a Contact Form to Download FlexLM Utilities?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}