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Licensing Model 2019 was introduced with License Statistics v6.0. |
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License Statistics needs to have one a valid license loaded in order to work. Types The types of licenses are described in the tables below.
License
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type by purpose
License Type | Limits | License Expiration | Maintenance Expiration | Description |
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Trial | Unlimited | 30 Days | No Maintenance | Delivered with License Statistics installer only. Can be used for evaluation and testing purposes only. |
It's This is the default license type |
which that is loaded if no other valid license was delivered. |
PerpetualLimited Users and License ServersPermanent | 1 year | Commercial license delivered to customers. It has no limit in terms of License Statistics expiry, but it has time-limited maintenance. | Subscription | The License Harvesting add-on tool is included in the Trial version. This tool must be purchased separately for regular licenses. |
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It is not possible to run a Trial license: - With a database that already contains data older than the trial start date
- On a host where a commercial license was previously installed
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Trial licenses have some data collection limitations, as described in the Trial section of the FAQ. |
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Perpetual | Limited users and license servers | Permanent |
Limited Users and License Servers | 1 year | 1 year | Commercial license delivered to customers. |
Both License Statistics expiry and maintenance are This license type has no License Statistics application expiration date; however, it has time-limited maintenance. |
University | Unlimited | 1 year | 1 year | Commercial subscription license for academic |
usage use only. |
Test | Depends on Sales or Support decision | 14 Days |
No MaintenanceDepends on Sales or Support decision | Technical license delivered by X-Formation Sales or Support team in order to solve |
the Customers problem.License Type by user counting
All purpose license types described above can can be delivered with one of user counting types variations.
License Type | Unique User | Description | Example |
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User-Host | Username + Hostname | Default way of counting Users in License Statistics. Single user is a unique pair of Username and Hostname. | - username1 uses 1 license on hostname1
- username2 uses 1 license on hostname1
- username1 uses 1 license on hostname2
User license count: 3 |
Username | Username | Optional license type where single user for licencing purposes is counted as a unique username. | - username1 uses 1 license on hostname1
- username2 uses 1 license on hostname1
- username1 uses 1 license on hostname2
User license count: 2