Enabling License Usage Reporting

Asset management reporting capabilities require a report log. You can enable the license server to write license usage information into a report log file.

All Sybase product installations automatically create an options file with REPORTLOG enabled. However, if for some reason the REPORTLOG is not automatically enabled, use this procedure:

In the licenses directory, open the options file, SYBASE.opt.
Edit the options file to include the REPORTLOG directive, which you can place anywhere in the options file where file_name is the absolute file name of the report log file:
```
REPORTLOG +file_name
```
Note: Sybase recommends that you precede the file_name with a plus sign (+) to append logging entries, otherwise, the file is overwritten each time the daemon starts.
The license server reads the options file and obeys its directives at start-up or, if it is already running, when you issue the sysam reread command.

Note: Over time, the report log can become large, so Sybase recommends that you periodically use the lmutil lmnewlog to rotate and archive the log.
To move the existing report log details to a new file, enter:
```
lmutil lmnewlog -c license_directory_location SYBASE new_log_file
```
This is typically done on a quarterly or yearly basis, to provide report logs for use with SAMreport. For example, at the end of 2012 move all report log information to a suitably named file:
```
lmutil lmnewlog -c ../licenses SYBASE ../log/SYBASE-2012.rl
```

For more information on lmnewlog, see the FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide.