Check License Inventory and Utilization
Use the license inventory to see which licenses are available across your configured license servers, how many seats are in use, and which jobs have checked them out.
Prerequisites
- At least one license server (FlexLM, DSLS, LM-X, LS-DYNA, OLicense, or RLM) is configured in Vantage
- You have permission to view the License Manager section
View available licenses
- In the left navigation, select License Manager.
- Select the Inventory tab.
- Review the features table. Each row represents a license feature reported by your configured servers.
The inventory table displays the following columns:
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| Feature | The name of the license feature (for example, STARCCM or NXCAE) |
| In Use | The number of licenses actively being used by jobs running on a cluster |
| Booked | The number of licenses booked in Vantage by users who have submitted jobs to clusters |
| Reserved | Licenses reserved for usage outside of Vantage license tracking, such as desktop applications |
| Total | The total number of licenses available for this feature |
Use the search bar at the top of the table to filter by feature name.
Check license utilization
- Navigate to License Manager > Inventory.
- Compare the In Use and Booked columns against the Total column for a given feature.
- Calculate available capacity: subtract In Use, Booked, and Reserved from Total.
A feature where In Use plus Booked equals Total has no remaining capacity for new jobs.
Identify which jobs hold licenses
- Navigate to License Manager > Configurations.
- Select the license configuration that contains the feature you want to inspect.
- Review the features list for that configuration to see the per-configuration breakdown of In Use, Booked, Reserved, and Total counts.
Each configuration is linked to a specific cluster, so this view shows which cluster's jobs hold checkouts for a given feature.
Troubleshoot license exhaustion
When all seats for a feature are in use, new jobs that require that license will wait in the queue until a seat becomes available.
- Navigate to License Manager > Inventory.
- Identify the exhausted feature (where In Use plus Booked equals Total).
- Navigate to License Manager > Configurations and select the relevant configuration to see which cluster is consuming licenses.
- Check whether any Reserved licenses can be reduced to free seats for cluster workloads.
- If the license server supports idle reclamation or timeouts, verify those settings are active on the server. See the troubleshooting guide for your license server type.
- If demand consistently exceeds capacity, contact your license vendor to add seats.
Task summary
| Task | Where |
|---|---|
| View all license features and their seat counts | License Manager > Inventory |
| Search for a specific feature | Inventory tab search bar |
| See per-cluster license breakdown | License Manager > Configurations > select a configuration |
| Check if a feature is fully consumed | Compare In Use + Booked to Total in the Inventory table |
Related
- How-to guides for each license server type -- setup, monitoring, and troubleshooting per server
- License concepts -- how licenses integrate with jobs
- Quickstart -- connect a license server in under five minutes