Collecting data and viewing reports

The Platform Analytics reporting server generates Platform Analytics reports and allows other users to view these reports. In order to view reports, you need to first collect data, publish them to Analytics reporting server, and view them.

Collecting data

If you want to collect FLEXlm usage and FLEXlm events data, start the license servers and configure the Analytics node.

  1. Start the LSF cluster.

    Run lsfstartup after sourcing the lsf.profile file.

  2. Start the license server daemon.
    1. Log on to the license server host as LSF administrator.
    2. Run the lmgrd command in LSF_SERVERDIR to start the license server daemon:

      lmgrd -c /usr/share/lsf/lsf_62/conf/license.dat -1/usr/share/lsf/lsf_62/log/license.log

    3. Make sure that the FLEXnet data loaders are enabled in your cluster.
  3. Start the database.
    1. Open the Administration Tools.

    2. On the Main Menu, select Start Database.

  4. Start the Platform Analytics node and source LSF and perf environment.

    perfadmin start plc | all

    plcclient [-s]

    Check the plc configuration file for any errors plc.log.<host_name> under the ANALYTICS_TOP/log directory.

    Check log file of individual loaders (<dataloader_name>.log.<host_name>) under the ANALYTICS_TOP/log/dataloader directory for details of individual data loaders.

    You can even check the database table to see if data has been successfully loaded into the database.

  5. Start the Platform Analytics server and transform data

    perfadmin start all

    runconsole

    Check log files under the ANALYTICS_TOP/log directory for details.

Viewing reports

Once data is collected in the database, you can view reports using the Analytics reporting server. Optionally, you can even view reports using Platform Analytics Designer or Platform Application Center.

  1. Log in to the Platform Analytics reporting server.

    http://<host_name>:<port>

    where <host_name> is the name of the system where Tableau server is installed and <port> is the number which you entered during the Tableau server installation.

  2. You can view workbooks, worksheets, and dashboards.
    • Workbook— A Workbook is a Tableau report (twb) file. It consists of Dashboards and Worksheets.

    • Dashboard—A Dashboard is a view of multiple Worksheets.

    • Worksheet—A Worksheet is a single view of queried data from a data source. This may be a table or a chart. A worksheet does not have to be viewed via a dashboard, it can be accessed directly if required.