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The information on this page refers to License Statistics v7.0 or newer, which
introduced Licensing Model 2025. If you are using an earlier version, please refer to
the documentation for earlier versions.


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Determining license usage differs between licensing models. The information given on this page applies only to Licensing Model 2013.

This page covers information about where to look for licensing details how to determine license usage in the License Statistics v6.x UI. For complete details about each of the licensing models, see:UI for Licensing Model 2013.

Licensing Model 2025 is now the default for License Statistics v7.0 and newer. Licensing Model 2025 is not supported by License Statistics versions older than v7.0, and Licensing Models 2019 and 2013 are deprecated as of v7.0. However, according to the rules described in the License Transition section:

For information on switching from an older licensing model to a newer licensing model, see see License Transition

The The Licensing page under the Administration section is divided into three tabs:

Usage

Contains gauge charts that show current usage of your License Statistics license 
HistoryContains reports that show historical usage of your License Statistics license
ManagementContains options for managing your License Statistics license, including activation

Using the License Usage and History pages for Licensing Model 2013 is described below. The Management tab is the same for all licensing models; see License Management for information on using this tab.

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Usage 

To see license usage information, click the Usage tab at the top of the Licensing page.

The Usage tab includes information for Users, Hosts, License Servers and Harvesting agents. When license usage is within your license limits, the gauge charts will be be green, as illustrated below.

You As shown below, you can easily see when your license limits are exceeded or nearing threshold (90% and above), indicated by by red in the gauge charts, as illustrated below for the Users and License Servers gauges. 

The Hosts gauge reports the number of hosts monitored for the entire database. The Total value is 125% of the Users gauge's Total value, which is the threshold unless a High Performance Computing (HPC) license is being used. 

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If there are no Harvesting Agents included in the license, the Harvesting Agents information will indicate "No License," as shown in the above illustration.

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For Licensing Model 2013:

  • Both Realtime and Imported license details are available. In this case, there is also a panel displaying values needed to switch the licensing to the Licensing Model 2019.
  • The Hosts information is not included.

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To see license usage history information, click the History tab at the top of the Licensing page. 

This tab The History tab contains a License Usage History chart and User History and Host History grids.  

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License Usage History chart 

The License Usage History chart in the Licensing page reports historical usage of the License Statistics license. 

The chart shows Users, Hosts, License Servers, and Harvesting Agents:

Data is shown up through the current day by default. To see details for a specific time period, click on the end-date for the time period in the chart. (Days will be highlighted as you move your mouse over the chart.)

You can limit the information to only the users/hosts who are new (were not included in usage for previous days) by toggling on Show only new users/hosts

The information shown in the License Usage History chart depends on your licensing model, as described below.

Licensing Model 2019

The License Usage History chart for the Licensing Model 2019 includes the following information.

  • Number of all users in the database up through the selected date
  • Number of all hosts in the database up through the selected  date
  • Number of maximum concurrent license servers in each day
  • Number of Harvesting Agents in each day

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Licensing Model 2013

The License Usage History chart for Licensing Model 2013 includes the following information.

  • Number of users or user-hosts for the last 14 days
  • Number of maximum concurrent license servers in each day

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The User History grid displays license usage history up to the date selected in the License Usage History chart (or the current date if none is selected).

The information shown in the User History grid depends on your licensing model, as described below.

Licensing Model 2019

For the Licensing Model 2019, separate User History and Host History grids display license usage history from the beginning of the database to the selected date (current date by default).

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Licensing Model 2013

 

A For the Licensing Model 2013, a User History grid with user-host pairs displays license usage history for 14 days (by default) prior to the selected date (or current date if none is selected) up through the selected date.

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To see license management options, click the Management tab at the top of the Licensing page. 

This tab contains three sections to help you manage your License Statistics license, as described below.

License Activation

Under the License Activation section, the Activation Key field displays the key currently in use, or if the license has no associated activation key (as is the case for trial licenses), a series of X's is displayed as a placeholder for the key.

  • To activate a new license (for example, after a new license purchase), enter the key in the Activation Key field and click Activate
  • To reactivate the same license (for example, after extending your maintenance or after X-Formation has changed your license parameters), click Activate without changing the Activation Key field contents.

The new activation will replace the previously used license.

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License Upload

The License Upload section lets you upload a license file directly in cases where activation is not possible or is not preferable; for example:

  • Due to no internet connection on the License Statistics host, the license was activated on a different machine or downloaded from the License Activation Center end-user portal 
  • The license already exists as a file
  • You obtained a license file from X-Formation Support or Sales

The new license upload will replace the previously used license.

License Preview

The License Preview section shows the date and time that the license was last updated, and after a new license has been activated/uploaded, displays the content of the current license (for informational purposes only).

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License usage notifications

A popup notification will alert you if you are reaching your licensed limit for users/hosts. The notification is activated at 80%, 90%, and 95% usage thresholds, as those thresholds are exceeded. For example, after exceeding the 80% threshold, a notification similar to the following will popup on the screen:

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You can:

  • Click OK to dismiss the notification for the current threshold level for 1 day.
  • Click Dismiss to dismiss the notification for the current threshold level for 7 days.

A new notification will appear if a higher threshold is exceeded, regardless of dismissal. For example, if you dismiss a notification for reaching the 80% threshold, a new notification will appear within that dismissal period if the usage exceeds 90%.