If you would find it useful to receive advance warning of the need to purchase additional Micro Focus Server licenses, and to have some control over when the overdraft is first used, you can arrange to have a user script launched whenever the ASLMF license usage reaches or exceeds a level defined by you.
By default, license usage warning is not enabled.
You specify the license usage level in the text file WATERMARK, which you must create in the $COBDIR directory in which Application Server is installed. License usage warning works per installation of Application Server, so you can turn it on or off for each installation, and use different usage levels for each installation.
The text file WATERMARK contains the license usage level defined in one of the following ways:
MAX - nnnn
where nnnn is a free-format numeric value.
When the license usage level is met or exceeded, AppTrack executes the user script /var/mfaslmf/watermark, passing it the following parameters.
You must write the user script /var/mfaslmf/watermark, to take whatever action you would find useful, for example the script could send a warning to you by e-mail.
AppTrack executes the /var/mfaslmf/watermark script only if it is owned by root, and has no write permissions for Group or Other. This is to prevent anyone other than the person who is responsible for license administration from editing the script.
License usage warning is in effect only if the text file $COBDIR/WATERMARK is present. If you want to disable license usage warning, you should remove $COBDIR/WATERMARK, and not simply change the license usage level value to an unattainable value. This is because if the file exists, AppTrack opens it and parses its contents, which takes unnecessary processing time.