This glossary lists terms that are specific to License Statistics and feature usage monitoring.
Actions | |||||||
| A request made by a user to obtain a particular software license. | ||||||
| Refers to the use of a license, which means that the license is taken from a pool of available licenses. A user can use two licenses of the same feature, as shown below. Users Using License | ||||||
Borrow
| A type of license usage that allows a user to use a floating license without being connected to the license server. | ||||||
Denial
| The denial of a request for a license. | ||||||
License Reservation
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License is assigned to a specific |
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and cannot be utilized by another user without an administrator reassigning the license to another user. | |||||||
Realtime Denial
| The denial of a request for a license monitored in real time. | ||||||
Denied Requests Log
| One or more log files that contain data about denials. | ||||||
Feature Versioning
| When Feature Versioning is set, features shown in lists include a separate entry for each version of that feature, and are named feature_version throughout License Statistics. | ||||||
Monitoring
| Gathering realtime information from a particular license server about feature usage details. | ||||||
Importing
| Gathering information from a license server log file about feature usage details. | ||||||
Last Update Time
| The last time at which License Statistics received an update from a license server. | ||||||
Entities | |||||||
Software
| An application. | ||||||
Log file
| One or more ASCII text files written by a license server. | ||||||
License
| License for particular software. | ||||||
| The definition of a license. The parts of a feature are:
As shown in the diagram below, a feature is defined by its name, version and type. There can be multiple versions with the same name, but each version can have only three license types: nodelocked, floating, or token. Although the features may share the same name, each feature with a different version and/or type is an individual, unique feature. Feature
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| A solution that provides the ability to manage licenses. | ||||||
User
| An application or person that requests a license. | ||||||
Host
| The computer on which a user is accessing a license. A user can use a feature on more than one host, and a host can be used by more than one user, as shown below. User on Hosts | ||||||
| Software hosting licenses for a single software vendor. A license server can be one of the following:
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| The manufacturer of a software application using a particular license manager. | ||||||
Gathering type
| The license server type (Realtime or Imported). | ||||||
| A value (number of minutes) specified for how often feature usage data is gathered for a monitored license server. | ||||||
Linux system | Refers to Linux x64 platform. | ||||||
Windows system | Refers to Win64 platform. |