CN1293437C - Software use monitoring system and method - Google Patents
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The present invention relates to a system and a method for monitoring the use amount of software. The method monitors the operation state of an authorization server by a software use amount monitoring system which comprises an instruction collection module, a control unit and a relation database; the system collects authorization management instructions provided by software by itself in advanced and reads information of the corresponding relation of application software and authorization names, etc. from the relation database. Subsequently, the system obtains the authorization state of existing software by the collected authorization management instructions in advanced, and the use right of a work station occupying an authorization number is recovered to be supplied for users on other work stations. Finally, the system finds out an authorization name corresponding to the application software through the relation database, the authorized number of present on-line software is known, and information which needs to be displayed in the authorization server is updated according to the number.
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Technical field
The invention relates to a kind of software administration technology, particularly about a kind of system and method that can monitor the use amount of software on the line.
Background technology
Be the epoch of an information prosperity now, the processing of all things all with quick, convenient be cardinal rule, thereby make the computer application field by scientific research and statistics originally, extend to the data processing tools that can be used as general individual and group's use, people reach the big characteristic of storage volume soon by Computer Processing speed usually, and then replace one a little by people operation and data quantity is big, repeatability is high work, expectation can be passed through computing machine data-handling capacity fast and accurately, promotes issued transaction efficient.Therefore, whether the office operating environment can promote and be the computerization management pattern, be that can enterprise promote external competitiveness, internally increase the important indicator of personnel's control and asset management efficient, also can the expansion service scope and improve the key factor of processing speed for service unit.In view of this, each officialism, group of enterprise and corporations of school there's no one who doesn't or isn't drop into sizable human and material resources in the work that increases the configuration computer equipment.Add in recent years, be subjected to the influence of network universalness, each operating environment of handling official business all sets up transmission network in scope, computer device resources in the office operating environment is done one integrate connection, and the transmission network that passes through to be set up is connected with outside, simplify work flow and save the time of keeping on shuttlecocking letters, and then improve the unit whole work efficiency.There is head of the unit quite a lot to recognize that in addition computerize and networking can improve competitive edge to the office operating environment, therefore set up so-called computerized information department in inside, be in charge of that computerized information equipment is soft, the maintenance of equipment in the buying of hardware and renewal and the network environment, expectation is provided with full-time administrative authority, reaches the standard of unit eization.
The higher application software of existing utilization rate on the market, major part all is the operating positions with the network architecture management application software (Application) of master-slave mode (Server/Client), wherein, particularly with the application software of Unix platform development, as Maya, 3D Max, the Mentor groupware, these management modes of the most normal use such as Pro Engineer and Valor, when subordinate end (Client) will be carried out application software, the application software internal processes can check on the authorization server (License server) whether still have delegatable quantity in advance, if have, this program side allows the user to use this application software on its workstation.In addition, the quantity purchase of application software be not with number of users as main Consideration, it is as consideration with number of users maximum in the same time.For example, if in a certain department of company 10 employees are arranged, usually the Maya software that only need buy 3 to 4 covers just enough uses, but if the busier moment or some user of prominent chance leaves workstation for a long time for some reason, forgotten to finish the Maya software that it is opened, at this moment, the Maya software that this workstation is opened will occupy same type software and allow the authorized quantity used simultaneously, and then can cause other user therefore can't continue using Maya software; At this situation, all application software all can provide empowerment management instruction, to assist the authorized quantity of all application software of software administration person's keyholed back plate, data such as the state of server and authorized quantity though but this empowerment management instruction helper applications supvr obtains the authorization, but it is not its shown data of real-time update, it is still and shows the supervisory instruction state of authorization server at that time of obtaining the authorization, moreover, because of its shown mandate title is not equal to the application software title yet, this will cause the difficulty in software administration person's identification, and single application software is also non-only uses single mandate title, even the application software that has is used the mandate title more than 3, so, will cause software administration person effectively to monitor, and then cause the difficulty in the software administration the licensing status of each application software.
Summary of the invention
For overcoming the shortcoming of above-mentioned prior art, fundamental purpose of the present invention provides a kind of software use amount supervisory system and method, can monitor the various running statuses of authorization server, make the licensing status of the application software that software administration person can be effectively uses each workstation monitor.
Another object of the present invention provides a kind of software use amount supervisory system and method, can set up a relational database by application software and the corresponding relation of authorizing title, make software administration person and this supervisory system all can grasp really opening arbitrary application software institute must whole mandate titles, thereby can improve the efficient of monitoring all licensing statuss of application software.
A further object of the present invention provides a kind of software use amount supervisory system and method, the right to use that takies the workstation of application software authorized quantity can be regained, use this application software for other user of being badly in need of other workstation of this application software of use, bring into play application software greatest benefit in the use really.
For achieving the above object, the present invention provides a kind of software use amount supervisory system and method.
Software use amount supervisory system of the present invention comprises: (a) instruction acquisition module, the empowerment management instruction that the application software that collection will manage provides; (b) relational database is that framework is set up by the corresponding relation between application software title and the mandate title; And (c) control module, by the information that instruction acquisition module and relational database provide, use and the licensing status of using software carried out keyholed back plate.
Software use amount method for supervising of the present invention comprises: (1) makes this software use amount supervisory system, by the plan that software administration person presets, chooses the application software that will carry out the use amount monitoring, and collects the empowerment management instruction that these application software provide; (2) make this software use amount supervisory system from its contained relational database, obtain the corresponding relation between application software title and the mandate title; (3) make this software use amount supervisory system by the resulting empowerment management instruction of previous collection, obtain the licensing status of the contained application software of each workstation; (4) make this software use amount supervisory system,, but obtain information such as present operational application software title and authorized quantity by the corresponding relation between application software title and the mandate title; And (5) make this software use amount supervisory system after obtaining licensing status, immediately the workstation that takies authorized quantity stopped its right to use, and by the gap periods that is ranked, and the licensing status and the display data of software on the line upgraded.
A kind of software use amount supervisory system of the present invention and method can be monitored the various running statuses of authorization server, make the licensing status of the application software that software administration person can be effectively uses each workstation monitor; The present invention can set up a relational database by application software and the corresponding relation of authorizing title, the whole mandate titles that make software administration person and this supervisory system all can grasp really opening arbitrary application software institute palpus, thereby can improve the efficient of all licensing statuss of monitoring application software, in case of necessity, also the right to use that takies the workstation of application software authorized quantity can be regained, use this application software for other user of being badly in need of other workstation of this application software of use, bring into play application software greatest benefit in the use really.
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Fig. 1 is a system architecture synoptic diagram, shows the signal situation that the interior contained all working station of a software use amount supervisory system of the present invention and a network element is connected; And
Fig. 2 is a process flow diagram, shows every program circuit that method of the present invention is carried out when the software use amount is monitored on carrying out line.
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Fig. 1 is a system architecture synoptic diagram, shows the signal situation that workstation 40 contained in software use amount supervisory system 10 of the present invention and the network element 30 is connected.As shown in the figure, software use amount supervisory system 10 of the present invention comprises an instruction acquisition module 11, a control module 12 and a relational database 13, this software use amount supervisory system 10 is to be connected to an authorization server (License server) 20, and this authorization server 20 also is connected to a plurality of workstations via a network element 30; Workstation 40 internal storage have the application software of number of different types, can open and carry out required application software by its required action of finishing for the user; Yet these application software must can be used via authorization identifying, and it is also limited at the quantity of spendable workstation 40 in the same period, for example, if Maya only authorizes 5 workstations can interiorly at one time operate the function command that it added, as the 6th function that workstation will use Maya to provide is provided at this moment, wait among the user of original 5 workstations, have people's off-line to withdraw from Maya software after, can fill vacancies in the proper order its position and continue to use.Hence one can see that, in the same time, but the authorized quantity that each application software provides (being meant that application software allows can use in the same period workstation quantity of its function) is the numerical value of a change, but this authorized quantity numerical value can be collected and record by network element 30 by authorization server, when making arbitrary application software on workstation 40, be opened by the user, can be connected to authorization server 20 via network element 30 from workstation 40, to check but whether authorization server 20 inside are 0 with the corresponding authorized quantity of this application software, if be not 0, application software can continue workstation 40 inner execution.
From the above, software use amount supervisory system 10 of the present invention mainly is to monitor at the various situations of authorization server 20, also can begin it, action such as finishing and read again controls, this software use amount supervisory system 10 at first is to make instruction acquisition module 11 by its application software that will manage, collect the empowerment management instruction (supervisory instruction as Mentor is " mgls_admin ") that these application software provide, with and included right to choose (Option), then, this software use amount supervisory system 10 makes control module 12, by the corresponding relation (just opening at least one mandate title of the required use of arbitrary application software) between application software and mandate title (License name), construction one relational database 13 in software use amount supervisory system 10, after these relational database 13 construction are finished, the empowerment management instruction that this system's utilization had before been collected by instruction acquisition module 11, obtain the licensing status of current all application software, and utilize relational database 13 inner stored application software and the corresponding relation of authorizing title, to determine to grasp the workstation 40 that existing network element 30 is connected, also have which application software available, this system is also after obtaining the licensing status data, but crossed a setting-up time (for example 30 minutes) at occupying authorized quantity on the network element 30 immediately, the workstation 40 that application software is operated does not stop this user's the right to use, uses for the user of being badly in need of this application software.It can upgrade the licensing status data of internal system in a gap periods of setting in addition, so as to solving the problem of authorizing timeliness.
Fig. 2 is a process flow diagram, shows every program circuit that method of the present invention is carried out when the software use amount is monitored on carrying out line; This method is applicable to a software use amount supervisory system, the operation conditions of authorization server is monitored, and can user mode that use software be upgraded by the gap periods that sets.Below promptly cooperate Fig. 1 that implementation method of the present invention is described in detail in detail.At first, make this software use amount supervisory system 10 (being designated hereinafter simply as supervisory system 10), the plan of presetting by software administration person, choose a plurality of application software, it is carried out the monitoring of use amount, then, make this instruction acquisition module 11 collect the empowerment management instruction of corresponding these application software (supervisory instruction of routine Mentor is " mgls_admin "), and offer control module 12 and read, subsequently, proceed to step S2.
In step S2, by the contained control module 12 of this supervisory system 10, read relational database 13 stored application software and the data such as corresponding relation of authorizing title, then, proceed to step S3.
In step S3, make this control module 12 be connected to workstation 40 via network element 30, and by its previous empowerment management instruction of reading, check the application software behaviour in service of each workstation 40, obtaining the licensing status of current existing application software, and the right to choose that is provided by the empowerment management instruction, the right to use that takies the workstation 40 of authorized quantity is regained, use the user of this application software to use for being badly in need of, then, proceed to step S4.
In step S4, make this control module 12 S2 application software that obtains and data such as corresponding relation of authorizing title set by step, obtain the application software authorized quantity during each workstation 40 uses at present, but make control module 12 can grasp the authorized quantity of each application software really, then, proceed to step S5.
In step S5, but make this supervisory system 10 after obtaining the authorized quantity of each application software, by the gap periods that sets (as per 30 seconds or per 60 seconds, can be by the actual management situation, in this supervisory system 10, set in advance by the supvr), regularly the data of depositing of authorization server 20 is upgraded, but can be grasped the up-to-date authorized quantity of each application software in real time, and then solve the problem of authorizing on the timeliness for authorization server 20.
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1. software use amount supervisory system is characterized in that this supervisory system comprises:
The instruction acquisition module is in order to collect the empowerment management instruction that software provided;
Relational database is by software and authorize the corresponding relation institute construction between the title to form;
Control module, the information that provides by instruction acquisition module and relational database, the software use amount is monitored, and can pass through the stored data of relational database, learn the title and the delegatable quantity of present available software, and after the title of knowing present available software and quantity, take the title of untapped workstation of authorized quantity to obtain, and will regain the right to use of these untapped authorized quantity, make this system can grasp the current amount of software of Gong licensing really.
2. software use amount supervisory system as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, this instruction acquisition module mainly is to collect at the empowerment management instruction of want monitoring software.
3. software use amount supervisory system as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, this relational database is to obtain for this system to open required mandate title and the quantity of arbitrary software.
4. software use amount supervisory system as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, this control module is to utilize collected empowerment management instruction to obtain the licensing status of existing software.
5. software use amount supervisory system as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, this control module also can regularly upgrade the behaviour in service of software by a gap periods of setting.
6. a software use amount method for supervising is applicable to a software use amount supervisory system, it is characterized in that this method comprises:
Make this system choose and to carry out the software of use amount monitoring, and read the contained empowerment management instruction of these softwares;
Make this system in its contained relational database, obtain software and the corresponding relation of authorizing title;
Make the corresponding relation of this system, obtain the current available dbase and the data of authorized quantity thereof by obtained empowerment management instruction and software and mandate title; And
Make this system after the title of knowing present available software and quantity, obtain and take the title of untapped workstation of authorized quantity, untapped workstation is stopped using power so that this is taken authorized quantity, and by the gap periods that is ranked, and the licensing status of software is upgraded.
7. software use amount method for supervising as claimed in claim 6 is characterized in that, this empowerment management instruction also comprises a right to choose.
8. software use amount method for supervising as claimed in claim 6 is characterized in that, this workstation that takies authorized quantity is meant in a schedule time, not the workstation that the software of opening on it is operated.
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