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License Statistics UI pages are intuitive to work with and include many features that help you quickly find and view the information most important to you, including . Basic information about working with the License Statistics UI is described in the following featuressections.

Navigation

Navigation Navigating to License Statistics pages is done using the left pane of the application window. Click on the arrows to expand/collapse sections and click on items under the sections to switch to that page. The following illustration shows switching to , as shown below for accessing the "Features: History Usage History" page.

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You can expand and collapse the navigation pane using the expand/collapse arrow at the bottom of the pane. 

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When the navigation pane is collapsed, icons remain so you can still navigate to desired pages:

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Expanding content to maximum size

Most content can be expanded to take up the entire License Statistics application window by clicking the "Maximize" icon at the upper right corner of the page/area.

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Maximizing the content is particularly useful for viewing reports that have a large amount of data, more easily viewing data on a phone or tablet, or setting the view up for a screen capture.

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For most reports (other than Administration reports, which do not support a public API), you can see a preview of the API resources for that report by clicking the "Show API resource" Options iconImage Addedat the upper right corner of the report.page, and then selecting API Resource from the Options menu. 

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An After clicking this icon, an API Resource window opens, with details of the API request used to generate the report, including the headers, endpoint and used parameters. You can use this information to facilitate integration with other tools, such as PowerBI, Excel, or any other application that you want to allow to access the License Statistics data.

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Limiting pick list content

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Collapsing/expanding areas

The Dashboard, License Server, and Features Some pages include collapsible areas that let you control how much information is displayed on the page at one time. These areas have a collapse/expand arrow Image Added on the right side of the title bar. You can collapse/expand these areas by clicking on the collapse/expand arrow or simply by clicking anywhere on the title bar. (You can also expand/collapse the navigation pane as described above.) 

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Color coding in graphs and charts

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• Red: 90% and above
• Orange: Below 90% and above 70%
• Green: Below 70%

For example, the Utilization column's percentages includes color-percentages shown under the Used column include color coding:

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Color - coding is also used for license server "last update time" and feature reservations "last active" information to indicate the number of query intervals elapsed since the last successful query:

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Filtering results in reports

You can filter report results using the options in the Settings panel. Options differ per report, but the general usage of these settings is similar, as described below.

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For example, the following illustration shows "Last Week" selected for report results. The range moving forward will always reflect "last week" according to the current date, rather than the particular dates effective at the time the option was chosen.   

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Grouping by time units

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For example, the following illustration shows grouping usage information by the day, which gives the most detailed results:

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How grouping by a unit of time works in a report

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Showing/hiding data in graphs

There are several controls for limiting data shown in reported statistics graphs to only the information you're currently interested in, as described below.

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Toggling visibility of graph data

Some graphscharts, such as in the Usage History Comparison chart in the Usage Features: History Comparison report, include toggles at the top of the graph that let you specify what the data to include in the report. For example, you can toggle off visibility of borrowed licenses, total licenses, etc., as applicable to the report.graph. To toggle visibility of data in a graph, click the Options iconImage Addedat the top of the page, select Series from the Options menu, and toggle on/off the available options as desired. The following illustration shows Borrowed, Average Used, and Aggregated results data toggled off. 

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Controlling graph lines using legend labels

You can click on the labels in the legend at the top of License Statistics graphs charts to show/hide the data for that label. For example, the illustration below shows graph lines for all the data that is labeled at the top of the chart:

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• Sorting and filtering controls are accessible by hovering over the column heading and then clicking on the arrow Options iconImage Added that appears at the right side of the column heading, as shown for the Name column in the illustration below. 
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  A drop-down menu gives you the following options for viewing the grid contents, including:
  

  • Filtering the grid contents by entering text to filter by. As you type, the grid will update to display only the content that includes the text you have entered. (Some columns let you filter by selecting available options instead of entering text, as described below.)
  • Sort by ascending/descending order (see Sort by selected columns in ascending/descending order (see "Sorting" below for more information).
  • Hide/show columns (select the Columns option, then toggle the list of columns on/off). Some columns are hidden by default, as described below.
  • Limit the grid contents (select Filters and then select the available options, or enter text for text fields).
    
• For license managers, you can filter by type:
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• • some columns are hidden by default, as described below).
• Use the settings at the bottom of the grid to select pages to view and control the number of rows to display per page (20 - 1000).Some columns, such as Feature Type, let you filter by options instead of entering text:
  
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• The filters you apply and the number of rows you select to display in the grid will also be used when downloading the data to a file. For some pages, these settings are also used in the graph content.

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Sorting by columns

When sorting grid content by columns:

• Grids may be sorted by any column by simply clicking on the column header. Clicking the column header again will toggle between ascending/descending sort order. You can also use the Sort Ascending and Sort Descending options in the column header drop-down Options menu.
• You can sort by up to three columns. The sort order is indicated by a number to the left of the column heading label. 
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• You can remove the sort from a column by clicking "Clear Sort" in the column header drop-down menu.
  

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Column visibility

Feature and user reports share some common content, such as license server name, feature name, and so on. To make reports less cluttered and easier to read, some grid columns , such as "ID" and "Description," are are hidden by default across all reports that contain those columns, as detailed in the following table.

License Server - Name (visible)
License Server - Vendor (visible)
License Server - Manager (hidden)

. Controlling column visibility and default visibility settings are described below. 

Controlling column visibility 

You can toggle visibility of columns by clicking on the Options iconImage Added at the top of the page, and then selecting Columns from the Options menu. To restore the column visibility settings to their defaults, select Restore defaults at the bottom of the Columns pane.

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Common grid columns and default visibility settings

To make reports less cluttered and easier to read, some grid columns are hidden by default across all reports that contain those columns. Default visibility settings are detailed in the following table.

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Column	Sub-	Column	Sub-columns/associated columns	Hidden Visible by default	Description
License Server	Name
	Vendor
	Manager
	ID
	Description
Feature	Name
	Version
	Type
	Collection
	ID
	Description
	Expiration Date
Host	Host IP Name
	Hostname
	Host ID
	IP Address
	Host Description
	Host Quantity
User (includes all	User Directory data)	Name
		ID
		Email
		Description
		Username
		Full Name
		Phone Number
		LDAP Description
		Email
		Phone Number
		Company
		Department
		Job Title
		Country
		City
Company
Department
Title
Country
City
Postal Code	Postal Cod
Post Office Box
Street Address
Province
Usage details
Used	Min		Minimum number of concurrently used licenses
	Min (%) Province

You can toggle visibility of columns by selecting the Columns option under the column header's drop-down menu, as illustrated below for the User column.

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Refreshing data in grids and charts

You can refresh data at any time by clicking on the Refresh icon at the bottom of grids and charts.

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Clicking on the arrow next to the Refresh icon lets you set the automatic refresh interval, which is 1 minute by default.

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Viewing and setting User/Host details

You can view or set the display name and description for user/host entries in all grids that include User and Host data.

To view or set the display name or description:

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Percentage of the minimum number of licenses used from the total license pool (Used Min / Total Licenses)
Avg		Average number of concurrently used licenses
Avg (%)		Percentage of the average number of licenses used from the total license pool (Used Avg / Total Licenses)
Max		Maximum number of concurrently used licenses
Max (%)		Percentage of the maximum number of licenses used from the total license pool (Used Max / Total Licenses)
Duration		Total usage time of all licenses
Duration (%)		Total license usage time, given as a percentage of the summed total monitoring time for all licenses (Used Duration / Total Duration)
Borrowed	Min		Minimum number of concurrently borrowed licenses
	Min (%)		Percentage of the minimum number of licenses borrowed from the total license pool (Borrowed Min / Total Licenses)
	Max		Maximum number of concurrently borrowed licenses
	Max (%)		Percentage of the maximum number of licenses borrowed from the total license pool (Borrowed Max / Total Licenses)
	Duration		Total length of borrow time for all licenses
	Duration (%)		Total length of license borrow time as a percentage of the total monitoring time summed for all licenses (Borrowed Duration / Total Duration)
Reserved	Min		Minimum number of concurrently reserved licenses
	Min (%)		Percentage of the minimum number of licenses reserved from the total license pool (Reserved Min / Total Licenses)
	Max		Maximum number of concurrently reserved licenses
	Max (%)		Percentage of the maximum number of licenses reserved from the total license pool (Reserved Max / Total Licenses)
Available	Min		Minimum number of concurrently available licenses
	Min (%)		Percentage of the minimum number of licenses available in the total license pool (Available Min / Total Licenses)
	Max		Maximum number of concurrently available licenses
	Max (%)		Percentage of the maximum number of licenses available in the total license pool (Available Max / Total Licenses)
Total Licenses			Number of licenses in the license pool
Total Duration			Total monitoring time of all licenses
Denials			Number of denied licenses
Used			Number of concurrently used licenses at the moment
Used (%)			Percentage of used licenses in the total license pool (Used / Total Licenses)
Duration			Session length
Borrowed			Number of borrowed licenses (considered as Used)
Reserved			Number of reserved licenses (not considered as Used)
Available			Number of available licenses (Total Licenses - Used - Reserved)
Unavailable			Number of unavailable licenses (Used + Reserved)

Viewing and setting User/Host details

You can view or set the display name, email address, and description for user/host entries in all grids that include User and Host data. These entries will override existing User Directory data.

To view or set the display name or description:

1. Hover over the view icon in the User or Host cell that you want to view or set. A User/Host Details popup will appear.
   
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   If displaying User Directory usernames is enabled, and data from a User Directory was imported, the User Directory display name (shown in the "Full Name" field under User Directory Details) will be used for the username, and the popup will include additional User Directory details, as illustrated below. The imported Full Name will be shown on grids unless you manually enter a Display Name, which will then override the Full Name setting.
   
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Refreshing data in grids and charts

You can refresh data at any time by clicking on the Refresh icon Image Added at the top right of the page.

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To change the refresh interval, click on the Options iconImage Added located to the right of the Refresh icon, and then select Edit from the Options menu. A Settings dialog will open to allow you to change the automatic refresh interval, which is 1 minute by default.

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Setting number of rows to display per page

You can control the number of rows to display per page (20 - 1000) by clicking on the Options iconImage Added located at the top of the page, and then selecting Edit from the Options menu. A Settings dialog will open to allow you to change the page size setting, which is 20 rows by default.

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Persistent page settings per user

Throughout License Statistics pages, some user settings persist. As you move from tab to tab and when you close and reopen License Statistics, the settings you make will remain. For example, if you collapse panels in one tab of a report, the panels will also be collapsed in other tabs and the next time you log into in to License Statistics.

For more information, see User preferences.

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