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The information on this page refers to License Statistics v6.13 18 and newer, which introduced Custom Application monitoring, and now offers License Harvesting as an optional add-on to Custom Application monitoringredesigned the Enable Harvesting area of the Harvesting tab. If you are using an earlier version, please refer to the documentation for earlier versions. |
To use License Harvesting, you must:
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- Select Custom Applications under the Administration section in the left pane.
- Click the Add button located in the bottom left corner of the Applications grid to add a new application, or click Edit to edit an existing application. The Custom Application form opens.
- If you are adding a new application, see the instructions on configuring the new application before proceeding to the next step. If you are editing an existing application, continue to the next step.
- Go to the Harvesting tab and toggle on Enable Harvesting.
Complete the application configuration settings, as described in the table below.
After the application is configured, click Save at the bottom of the page. You return to the Administration: License Harvesting page, where you will see that License Harvesting is active for the application by looking in the Harvesting Enabled column for the application.
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The settings for configuring an application for License Harvesting include the following.
| Setting | Description | ||
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| Activity TrackingTrigger (License Harvesting will be triggered when any of the enabled conditions are met. Each setting may be used alone or together.) | |||
| Inactive User Duration | When toggled on, the maximum amount of time (in seconds) that the application is allowed to be idle (the user is not actively using the application), after which the License Harvesting procedure will begin for that application. You may either type the number of seconds, or use the increase/decrease arrows to adjust the number of seconds. This setting may be used alone or together with the Minimum | ||
| CPU Activity | setting.Below | Minimum CPU Activity | When toggled on, the minimum maximum percentage of that the CPU usage allowed for the applicationactivity is allowed to drop down during the specified duration (in seconds), after which the License Harvesting procedure will begin for that application. Use the slider to increase/decrease the percentage. This setting may be used alone or together with the Inactive User Duration setting. |
| Availability | |||
| Outside Working Hours | Days Days of the week that the application is available for use. For example, if you want to exclude weekend days from the times that the application can be used, you would toggle off Saturday and Sunday. | ||
Hours Time range (24-hour clock) that the application is available for use. For example, if you want to limit the hours of usage from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., you would enter From: 07:00 To: 19:00. You may either type the time or select it from the drop-down list. | |||
| User Confirmation | |||
| Confirmation Required | When toggled on, when License Harvesting detects that the application is in an idle state, a confirmation message will be sent to the end-user asking them to confirm closing the application. When this option is not toggled on, the application will be closed immediately with no alert to the end-user. | ||
| Confirmation Timeout | This option may be toggled on only when Confirmation Required has been toggled on. When this option is toggled on, it sets the time (in seconds) to display the confirmation message to the user, after which License Harvesting will automatically close the application. When this option is not toggled on, the user confirmation alert will remain on the end-user's machine until the end-user dismisses the alert. | ||
| Harvesting | |||
| Release Method | Toggle to either Graceful or Forced method of releasing the application license due to idle state. The Graceful method asks the application to close, but allows the application to wait and remain open if there is user action required to resolve unsaved state questions or confirmations. The Force method immediately closes the application and ignores any unsaved state questions or confirmations. | ||
| Graceful Wait Time | Applies only when using Graceful release method. When toggled on, the time (in seconds) to wait for unsaved state questions or confirmations to be resolved, after which the application will be forced to close. When not toggled on, the application will remain open indefinitely if there are unsaved state questions or confirmations needed. | ||
| Features | |||
| Harvestable Features | Allows remote session closing for features of applications configured for License Harvesting. When a feature has been enabled for harvesting, after License Harvesting closes an application on the end-user host, License Statistics will automatically force the session to release on the corresponding license server and return the license to the available pool. This setting is applicable only for LM-X and FlexNet license manager types. | ||
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