TW200521670A - Usage-amount monitoring system of software and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a usage-amount monitoring system of software and method thereof. The method is to monitor the operation condition of a license server by a usage-amount monitoring system of software comprising a command collection module, control unit and relational database. The system collects the license management command provided by the software itself in advance, and reads the data such as the correspondence relationship between the application software and license name from the relational database. Then, the system obtains the licensing state of the current software by the license management command collected in advance, and takes back the licensed right of the work stations occupying the license quantities for the usage of other clients in the other workstations. Afterwards, the system finds the license name corresponding to the application software so as to substantially know the quantity of on-line software that can be licensed and update the data in the licensing server and the data to be displayed.

Description

• 200521670 V. Description of the invention (1) [Technical field to which the invention belongs] The present invention relates to a software management technology, particularly a system and method for monitoring the usage of online software. [Previous technology] It is now an era of advanced information. The basic principle of processing everything is fast and convenient. As a result, the field of computer application has been expanded from original scientific research and statistical calculations to information for ordinary individuals and groups. Processing tools, people then use the characteristics of fast processing speed and large storage capacity of the computer to replace some of the time-consuming and repetitive projects that need to be operated by humans. The computer's fast and accurate data processing capabilities can improve execution-transactions. The efficiency of processing is the reason why the office environment can be upgraded to a computerized management mode. It is an important indicator of whether the company can enhance its external competitiveness, increase internal control of personnel, and the efficiency of asset management. The key factors for expanding the scope of services and increasing the speed of case processing are the same. All organizations, business groups, and school associations have invested considerable human and material resources in adding computer equipment. In addition, in recent years, Affected by the popularization of the Internet, each and every office environment is set up and transmitted within the scope. The network is to integrate the computer equipment resources in the office operating environment, and to connect with the external through the transmission network set up to simplify the operation process | save the time of correspondence, and then improve the efficiency of the unit's overall work, Therefore, many units are responsible for the human body's recognition that the office operating environment must be computerized and networked in order to improve their competitive advantage. Therefore, a so-called computer information department was set up internally to manage the procurement and management of computer information equipment software and hardware. Update and maintenance of equipment in network environment

17617.pid Page 4 200521670 V. Description of the invention (2) Management method to achieve the standard of unit e-ization. Most of the currently used application software on the market are mainly used in the form of master / slave (Server / Client) network architecture management application software (A pp 1 icati〇η). Among them, especially U ni The application software developed on the X platform, such as Maya, 3 DM a X, Mentor series software, Pr0ngineer and Va 1 or, etc. most commonly use this management mode, when the slave (C 1 1 ent ) When the application software is to be executed, the internal program of the application software will first check whether there is still an authorized quantity on the License server. If so, the program allows the user to execute the application software on its workstation. In addition, the application The number of software purchases is not based on the number of users. It is based on the largest number of users at the same time. For example, if there are 10 employees in a department of a company, it usually only needs to buy 3 to 4. The set of Maya software is enough to use, but if you sometimes encounter a busy time or some users leave the workstation for a long time and forget to end the Maya software they opened, at this time , The Maya software opened on the workstation occupies the number of licenses allowed for the same type of software to be used at the same time, resulting in the inability of other users to continue to use the Maya software. Instructions to help software managers control the number of licenses for all application software. Although the license management instructions can help software managers obtain information about the status, status, and number of license servers, it does not update the data displayed in real time. It still shows the status of the authorization server at the time of obtaining the authorization management instruction. Furthermore, because the license name displayed is not the same as the application software name, this will cause difficulty for the software administrator to identify, and a single application software also Instead of just using a single authorized name, some should

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11II Page 5 i7617.ptd 200521670 V. Description of the invention (3) Using software or even using more than 3 authorized names, so that the software manager will not be able to effectively monitor the authorization status of each application software, resulting in Difficulties in software management. [Summary of the Invention] In view of the above-mentioned shortcomings of the prior art, the main purpose of the present invention is to provide a software usage monitoring system and method, which can monitor various operating states of the authorization server, so that software managers can effectively Monitor the license status of the application software used by each workstation. Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for monitoring software usage, which can establish an associated database according to the correspondence between application software and authorized names, so that both software managers and the monitoring system can truly grasp the opening tasks. All the license names required by an application software can improve the efficiency of monitoring all the license status of the application software. Another object of the present invention is to provide a software usage monitoring system and method, which can recover the right to use the workstation that occupies the authorized amount of application software, so that other workstation users who urgently need to use the application software can continue to use it. And it can be sure to make the most of the use of application software. To achieve the above object, the present invention is used to provide a software usage monitoring system, method, and method. The software usage monitoring system of the present invention includes: (a) an instruction collection module, which is used to collect the authorization management instructions provided by the application software to be managed; (b) an associated database, which is based on the application software The correspondence between names and authorized names is established for the architecture; and (c) the control unit, which

17617.ptd Page 6 200521670 V. Description of the Invention (4) Controls the use and authorization status of the application software according to the information provided by the module and the related database. The software usage monitoring method of the present invention includes: (1) making the software usage monitoring system select application software to be monitored for usage according to a schedule preset by the software manager and collecting authorization provided by the application software Management instructions; (2) Make the software usage monitoring system obtain the correspondence between the name of the application software and the authorized name from its associated database; (3) Make the software usage monitoring system use the authorization collected previously Management instructions to obtain the authorization status of the application software contained in each workstation; (4) Make the software usage monitoring system obtain information such as the currently available application software name and authorized quantity according to the correspondence between the application software name and the authorized name ; And (5) make the software usage monitoring system suspend the workstation occupying the authorized quantity immediately after obtaining the authorization status, and update the authorization status and display data of the online software at the scheduled interval. [Embodiment] The following is a description of specific embodiments of the present invention. Those skilled in the art can easily understand other advantages and effects of the present invention from the content of the disclosure and the disclosure. The present invention can also be implemented or applied by other different real examples. Various details in this specification can also be modified and changed based on different viewpoints and applications without departing from the spirit of the present invention. The following examples further illustrate the viewpoints of the present invention in detail, but do not limit the scope of the present invention in any way. Examples

17617.pui Page 7 200521670 V. Description of the invention (5) Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of a system architecture, which is used to display the software usage monitoring system 10 and a network unit 30 included in the present invention. The schematic situation of the connection of workstation 40, as shown in the figure, the software usage monitoring system 10 of the present invention includes an instruction collection module 11, a control unit 12 and an associated database 13, the software usage The monitoring system 10 is connected to a license server 2 0, and the license server 20 is connected to a plurality of workstations via a network unit 30. The workstation 40 internally stores a plurality of different types of Application software, so that users can open and execute the required application software according to the tasks they need to perform. However, these application software systems must be authorized by -y before they can be used, and they can also be used in the same period. The number of work-stations 40 is limited. For example, if May a only authorizes 5 workstations to operate the additional function instructions at the same time, as the 6th workstation appears to use Maya The function is to wait for one of the users of the original 5 workstations to jump out of the May a software offline before they can supplement their positions and continue to use it. It can be seen that at the same time, the authorized quantity provided by each application software (refers to The number of workstations where the application software allows its functions to be used in the same time period) is a value of 1 which can be collected and recorded by the authorization server through the network unit 30. Θ makes any When the application software is opened on the workstation 40, the user can connect to the authorization server 20 from the workstation Xin 0 via the network unit 30 to check the authorization server. The server 20 corresponds to the application software internally. Whether the authorized quantity is 0. If it is not 0, the application software can continue to execute inside the workstation 40. As mentioned above, the software usage monitoring system 10 of the present invention is mainly for monitoring various conditions of the authorization server 20, and it can also start and end it.

17617.ptd Page 8 200521670 Fifth, the invention description (6) and rereading are controlled. The software usage monitoring system 1 0 first instructs the command collection module 11 to collect these application software according to the application software it wants to manage. The authorized management instructions provided (such as the management instruction of Ment 〇r is " mgls_adniinn) and the options it contains (Option). Then, the software usage monitoring system 10 then instructs the control unit 12 according to the application The correspondence between the software and the license name (namely, at least one license name required to open any application software) constructs an association database 13 in the software usage monitoring system 10, and this association After the database 13 is constructed, the system then uses the authorization management instructions previously collected by the instruction collection module 11 to obtain the current authorization status of all application software and uses the application software and authorizations stored in the associated database 1 3 The corresponding relationship of the names is to ascertain exactly which application software is available for the workstation 40 connected to the current network unit 30, and the system also After obtaining the authorization status data, the workstation 40 that has not operated the application software for more than a set period of time (for example, 30 minutes) on the possession of the authorized number on the network unit 30 will be suspended for the urgently needed application software. For users, they can also update the authorization status and status information in the system within a set interval to solve the issue of authorization aging. < FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the various procedures performed by the method of the present invention when performing online software usage monitoring; the method is applicable to a software usage monitoring system for Monitor the operation status of the authorization server, and update the application status of the application software at a set interval. The following details the method of the present invention in conjunction with Figure 1. First, let the software usage monitoring system 1 0 (hereinafter abbreviated as monitoring

17617.ptd 苐 9 pages 200521670 V. Description of the invention (7) System 1 0) Select a plurality of application software to monitor the usage according to the schedule preset by the software manager, and then order the command collection module 1 1 to collect the correspondence The authorization management instructions of these application softwares (for example, the management instruction of Men tor is " mg 1 s _ adm 1 η π) are provided to the control unit 12 for reading, and then, proceed to step S 2. In step S2, the control unit 12 included in the monitoring system 10 reads data such as the correspondence between the application software and the authorized name stored in the associated database 13 and then proceeds to step S3. In step S3, the control unit 12 is connected to the yzha station 40 via the network unit 30, and the application software usage status of each workstation 40 is checked according to the authorization management instruction previously read. Obtain the current license status of the existing application software, and use the option provided by the license management instruction to recover the use right of the workstation that occupies the authorized number of 40 for users who urgently need to use this application software, and then proceed to the step S4. In step S4, the control unit 12 is instructed to obtain information such as the correspondence between the application software and the license name obtained in step S2 to obtain the number of application software licenses currently in use at each workstation 40, and order the control unit 1 2 can be sure of the authorized amount of each application software, and then proceed to step S 5 to 1 ′ In step S 5, the monitoring system 10 after obtaining the authorized number of each application software, then according to the Setting, interval interval (such as every 30 seconds or every 60 seconds, can be set by the administrator in the monitoring system 10 in advance according to the actual management status) to periodically update the storage data of the authorization server 20 to The authorization server 20 can grasp the latest authorized quantity of each application software in real time, thereby solving the problem of the validity of the authorization.

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200521670 Schematic description [Schematic description] Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of the system architecture, which is used to show the schematic situation of the software usage monitoring system of the present invention and all workstations included in a network unit; And FIG. 2 is a flowchart, which is used to show the various procedures of the method of the present invention when performing online software usage monitoring. 10 Software usage monitoring system 11 Command collection module 1 2 Control unit 13 Related database-2 ^ Authorized server 30 Network unit ^ 4 0 Work station

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200521670 6. Scope of Patent Application 1. A software usage monitoring system, including: an instruction collection module for collecting authorization management instructions provided by the software; an associated database based on the correspondence between the software and the authorized name It is constructed; and the control unit is used to monitor the software usage according to the information provided by the command collection module and the related database, so that the system can truly grasp the current amount of software available for authorization. 2. For the software usage monitoring system of item 1 of the patent application scope, the instruction collection module mainly collects authorization management instructions of the software to be monitored. 3. For the software usage monitoring system under the scope of the patent application, the related database is used by the system to obtain the authorized name and quantity required to open any software. 4. If the software usage monitoring system of item 1 of the scope of patent application, the control unit can use the collected license management instructions to obtain the current software license status. ',, 5. If the software usage monitoring system for item 1 of the patent application scope, among which I * The control unit can know the name and authorized quantity of the software 11 currently available through the data stored in the related database. 6. If the software usage monitoring system for item 1 of the patent application scope, among which, '1 v the control unit can periodically update the software usage status at a set interval U 7. As for item 5 of the patent application scope Software usage monitoring system, in which, 17617.prd Page 13 ^ 200521670 VI. Scope of patent application After learning the name and quantity of currently available software, the control unit can also obtain the unused workstation names that occupy the authorized quantity at the same time, and will recover these unused licenses The right to use the quantity. 8. A software usage monitoring method, which is applicable to a software usage monitoring system, the method includes: instructing the system to select software for usage monitoring and reading the authorization management instructions contained in the software; The system obtains the correspondence between the software and the license name from its associated database; φ instructs the system to obtain the currently available software name and the number of licenses through the obtained license management instruction and the correspondence between the software and the license name And the system to suspend the workstations occupying the authorized quantity, and update the software license status according to the scheduled interval. 9. The software usage monitoring method according to item 8 of the patent application scope, wherein the authorization management instruction further includes an option (Opt ion). 10. The software usage monitoring method according to item 8 of the scope of the patent application, wherein the workstations for which the license is used refer to workstations that have not operated on the software opened thereon within a predetermined time. 17617.ptd Page 14