User manual AUTODESK SAMREPORT-LITE 2005

[. . . ] SAMreport-Lite P p USER'S GUIDE TM February 2004 COPYRIGHT Copyright © 2004 Macrovision Corporation. The information contained herein contains confidential information and proprietary trade secrets and is the property of Macrovision Corporation. Any use, copy, publication, distribution, display, modification, or transmission of the information in whole or in part in any form or by any means without the prior express written permission of Macrovision Corporation is strictly prohibited. Except when expressly provided by Macrovision Corporation in writing, possession of this information shall not be construed to confer any license or rights under any of Macrovision Corporation's intellectual property rights, whether by estoppel, implication, or otherwise. [. . . ] "Enabling and Managing Report Logs" on page 29 describes how to start and manage report log files. You must specify the location of each of the report logs you want to run with SAMreport-Lite using one of the following two methods. Type the path to the report log in the text field to the right of the Browse button. Click the Browse button and use the report log file browser to select a report log from your system. You can repeat this process to select more than one report log from the browser. After you select a report log, the report log file name appears in the text box above the Remove button. To remove a report log from the list, click to highlight the report log, then click the Remove button. There is no fixed limit on the size of a report log that you run through SAMreport-Lite, but the execution time of a report is proportional to the amount of report log data that is processed. Displaying Output to the Viewer Window All reports generated in the SAMreport-Lite interface are displayed on the screen in a SAMreport-Lite Viewer window, even if you specify one or more output files. 22 | Chapter 5 Report Input and Output Navigating the SAMreport-Lite Viewer Window The SAMreport-Lite Viewer window is divided into two sections. A list of the titles of individual pages of a report or a list of output formats is displayed in the left side of the SAMreport-Lite Viewer. A textual page of a report is displayed in the right side of the Viewer. If the displayed page is longer than the display space (often the case with textual report output), you can read the rest of the page by moving the scrollbar at the right margin of the Viewer. A navigation toolbar and report progress indicator are displayed at the top of the Viewer. You can display different pages or output formats of a report in one of three ways: Click the page name in the left side of the window. Select Next or Previous from the Page menu. Selecting Output Type and Output File Names Different output formats are available; unavailable output formats are grayed out. All reports written to files require an output file name base and at least one output format selection. The file name base can be entered in one of two methods: Type the path and file name base in the text field to the right of the Output File button. If no path is specified, the files are written to the current working directory. Find and double-click the directory in which you want to save the output file. Click the Save button. Navigating the SAMreport-Lite Viewer Window | 23 The appropriate file name extension is automatically appended to a file name base, depending on the files's output format: Output Format HTML Text Report Interchange Format See a description of RIF in "Output Formats" on page 24. " File Name Extension . html . txt . rif SAMreport-Lite will not warn you if the output file that you are defining already exists and that you are about to overwrite it. Output Formats Usage Summary reports are available in the following formats: Text This format is suitable for printing and reading, but not for parsing. HTML This format is suitable for posting textual reports to a web page. Report Interchange Format (RIF) This format is a simple, flexible, plain text format that is designed to pass tabular information between the report generator and another program, such as a spreadsheet. Fields are delimited by multiple spaces. Textual reports are written to a single RIF file; each page of a multipage graphical report is written to a separate RIF file. Sequential numbers (starting with 0) are appended to the file name base of the RIF files and they have the extension. rif. A Table of Contents RIF file is generated for each RIF report and is named output_filename_base_toc. rif. 24 | Chapter 5 Report Input and Output Format Specification: #BEGIN HEADER header lines #END HEADER #cols [#rows] name of dataset column labels [rows] // These lines contain // info for the first // table. If you break down data by more than one category in a Usage Summary report written in RIF, each of the categories is presented in its own column. [. . . ] Regularly visit GLOBEtrotter's website to check for the latest versions of lmgrd and lmutil: http://www. Macrovision. com/lmgrd. htm. Check with your software vendors for the newest available versions of their vendor daemons. In pre v 5. 1 vendor daemons, rereads and shutdowns could possibly introduce corruption, particularly if the server is busy. With these older vendor daemons, the best policy is to issue reread or shutdown when no licenses are checked out, if possible. [. . . ]