Centralized USB dongle inventory
Introducing OpenLM Dongle Monitoring Solutions
Learn where your dongles are, who’s using them, and where they go.
Tired of juggling multiple dongle solutions?
Seamless support for all USB license dongles
Dongle Monitoring - Protect your assets, mitigate risk, and stay compliant, all from a single platform.
The OpenLM Dongle Monitoring Solutions provides real-time insight into your organization’s hardware key assets. It simplifies asset management by having one central database and managing assets from one central interface. You can also track the user and use of any lost or stolen hardware keys and take suitable actions to prevent damage.
Core functionalities
One registry for all hardware keys
Centralize all your hardware license keys into one registry. Maintain one single source of truth for everything related to licensing and dongles.Â
Know where your dongles are
Obtain full transparency of the location of your assets compiled and stored securely on the cloud.
Centralized alert management
Track and see the usage of your license dongles for any time frame you specify.
Access the most relevant data
We collect the data, you choose how to filter it: by device name, manufacturer, hostname, username, or time frame.
Integration with Alerts services ‒ Track any blacklisted device
As you have defined a list of allowed devices, you can also set alerts for any unauthorized dongle. You can also set notifications for devices (regardless of their status) that are getting disconnected.
Flexible actions
When an alert is triggered, you can trigger email notifications, generate tickets in your ticketing system, or both.
Respond in real-time to dongles taken off the network
Introducing offline monitoring
Offline monitoring is a new functionality added to Dongle Monitoring. It records dongle usage even when the device is disconnected from the network.
This is particularly useful for scenarios where users need to work remotely (places where connection to the OpenLM system machine is unavailable), such as engineers during any field work.
Once reconnected to the OpenLM system, the dongle will report all buffered usage data, allowing administrators to gain a complete picture of dongle usage and make more informed decisions about license allocation.
- Prevent software downtime: Proactive alerts help address issues before they impact users.
- Streamline issue resolution: Integrate with your ticketing system for automated issue tracking.
- Ensure peace of mind: Ensure continuous monitoring and awareness of your license environment's health.
Simplify dongle management by consolidating
your hardware keys in a centralized web-based system of record.
Here is what you need to do
Add your dongle to the system
- Connect the hardware key to the computer
- Add its identification details
- Name your device
Start monitoring your dongles
- When a dongle is plugged into the USB port of the workstation, OpenLM Dongle Monitoring will start recording its usage
- OpenLM reports the time the dongle was connected and disconnected
Install the OpenLM Agent
- Dongle Monitoring requires the installation of the OpenLM Agent on the end user’s workstation on which you want to track USB keys
Filter dongle usage reports
- Apply your custom filter to find the data you are looking for
- Filter dongle usage by
- Device name
- Manufacturer
- Hostname
- Username
$1/ dongle/ month
Want to know where your dongles are and who’s using them? Contact us to learn more about Dongle Monitoring and start managing your hardware more efficiently today!
Fill out our contact form or send an email to sales@openlm.com and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Dongle Monitoring is OpenLM’s solution to tracking and managing license hardware dongles.
Hardware keys are also part of an organization’s software portfolio, but they are often hard to track and manage, if they aren’t outright ignored. Dongle Monitoring fills that gap by providing the right tools for hardware asset management. Keep track of which license dongles are in use and enable IT administrators to manage all tokens from a central dashboard.
Additionally, lost dongles can become an issue, so a tool that can blacklist lost dongles and alert IT when a blacklisted device is connected to the network can come.
Dongle Monitoring keeps track of the dongles that are connected to an end-user workstation and monitors the amount of time they stay connected.
OpenLM’s Dongle Monitoring comes with the following features: real-time monitoring of license dongle activity, usage reports, and notifications when a dongle is plugged in or taken off the network.
No. Just create an account in the OpenLM Cloud Portal, activate the Dongle Monitoring product and start adding your vendors and license dongles to the registry. From that moment on, you are ready to get usage reports and start managing your license dongles from a single dashboard.
