How to view/count licenses assigned per group or user in TIBCO Spotfire Server

How to view/count licenses assigned per group or user in TIBCO Spotfire Server

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Article ID: KB0072903

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Products Versions
Spotfire Server 7.0 and later

Description

This knowledge base article describes the steps to view or count licenses assigned to every group or user in TIBCO Spotfire Server.

Issue/Introduction

This article describes how to use the show-licenses command in TIBCO Spotfire Server to view/count licenses assigned per group or user

Environment

All

Resolution

- Login to the Spotfire server machine.
- Launch a command prompt with Administrator rights and browse to Spotfire Server installation folder.
e.g: <spotfire server installation folder>\tomcat\bin folder for TIBCO Spotfire Server version 10.2 and lower and
<spotfire server installation folder>\tomcat\spotfire-bin for TIBCO Spotfire Server version 10.3 and higher

- Run the following command:
config.bat show-licenses --expand-groups=true

- When it prompts you to enter the configuration password, please enter the configuration tool password
- This command will generate a text file under \tomcat\logs folder (licenses_report_DATE). 
- Depending on how many users/groups you have, it may take a while to get this report.
- You can open the generated text file in TIBCO Spotfire Analysts and analyze the results.

Additional Information

show-licenses command (TIBCO Spotfire Server 11.4.0 installation and administration manual):