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| The information on this page refers to License Statistics v6v7.9 0 or newer, which introduced Agent groups dropped support for Autodesk license server. |
Monitoring Autodesk license usage requires using two independent methods to gather data from the Autodesk cloud platform and the host running the Autodesk licenses, as detailed below.
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The Autodesk cloud platform does not deliver data about usage. In order to gather usage statistics, License Statistics uses the License Statistics Agent add-on tool.
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| cloud monitoring. If you are using an earlier version, please refer to the documentation for earlier versions. |
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Due to Autodesk introducing stricter technical measures to actively prevent third-party access to their cloud license data, we are currently unable to provide Autodesk cloud-based license monitoring via their web portal at manage.autodesk.com. Because License Statistics can no longer collect Autodesk cloud-based license information reliably and securely, the following Autodesk-related data will no longer be available in License Statistics reports:
This change affects only cloud-based monitoring of Autodesk licenses. You can still use License Statistics Agent as described in this page to continue to collect detailed usage information about Autodesk software running locally on your Autodesk workstations. We plan to reintroduce some cloud-based data collection capabilities in a future License Statistics release with enhanced data importing. |
You can use License Statistics Agent to monitor usage data (hostname, username and application name, along with the date the session was started/stopped) for Autodesk applications that are running on the end-user host machines. License Statistics Agent sends the usage data to License Statistics, which then processes the data for displaying in the standard grids and reports in the License Statistics
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Configuring License Statistics Agent to monitor Autodesk applications
To use License Statistics Agent, you must install and configure it on the end-user host.
In order to determine which Agent should be used to monitor an Autodesk application, you will need to:
- Create one or more Agent groups (an Agent group is created automatically when migrating to License Statistics v6.9) and add the appropriate Agents to the group
- Edit the Autodesk license server, and select the Agent group(s) to use for that license server
All agents that belong to the group(s) will start automatically monitoring Autodesk applications on their hosts
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License Statistics combines the data from HTTP monitoring and License Statistics Agent, and processes the data for displaying in the standard grids and reports in the License Statistics UI.
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