Right-size your RLM license servers

Designed to give end users and license administrators everything they need to maximize their use of the increasing number of RLM-licensed applications, the bundle contains the most-current RLM server along with the new RLM performance testing tools, "rlmtests".  The Bundle includes separate end user documentation as well.

RLM v3.0 sheds some light on the black art of predicting license server load and performance. The new RLM release includes some testing tools that let License Administrators answer questions such as:

• How fast can my license server service license requests?
• How many licensed users can my server handle?
• What will my performance be if I double my current user population?
• When should I split my license inventory into multiple independent servers?

rlmtests is totally self-contained, creating the required test licenses and then starting a license server before it runs the tests, finally reporting the results on the screen.  The rlmtests utility performs two categories of tests: checkout performance tests and server capacity tests.

The server capacity test attempts to determine the total number of clients that the server can handle. This test starts up a number of sub-processes which each simulate 1000 clients connected to the server. Sub-processes are started until a checkout fails (or when 50 sub-processes all succeed.) During the course of this test, the checkout performance time is reported as each sub-process completes.

With this utility, license administrators and other end users can be proactive about their hardware requirements, matching available hardware to expected needs and giving a plan for hardware acquisition to match the growth in users of RLM-licensed software.

The End User Bundle can be downloaded from this link.