The information on this page refers to License Statistics v6.15 20 and newer, which introduced a new policy on how X-Formation supports different versions of License Statistics Agent.added a new "Dry Run" option to the Release Methods. If you are using an earlier version, please refer to the documentation for earlier versions. |
The major and minor versions of The License Statistics and License Statistics Agent tool's major and minor versions are compared upon startup for compatibility.
- The major versions must match in order for the agent to run
- The License Statistics Agent version may be up to five minor versions older than your License Statistics version, but cannot be newer
- Micro versions are ignored
For example, for say your License Statistics version is "6.15.2":
- the The major version number is "6" and must match the between License Statistics and License Statistics Agent
- The minor version number is "15" and some backward compatibility is supported (as may be as old as version 6.10 for License Statistics Agent, but cannot be older, and cannot be newer than 6.15 (agent version 6.16 or newer is incompatible)
- The micro version number "2" detailed below)the micro version is "2" and is ignored
Differences in versions between License Statistics Agent and License Statistics is are handled as described in the table below. Version and Status information referred to in the below table is shown in the You can see the status and version information in the Agents page.
Versions are equal |
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Agent version is |
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up to 5 minor versions |
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older | Agent version is |
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newer |
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Agent version is greater than 5 minor versions |
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older | |
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Requests are supported | Requests are |
supported | Requests are |
rejected | Requests are rejected |
Status is "Online" | Status is " |
Online" | Status is " |
Update Required" (You must update License Statistics to continue using the agent) | Status is "Update Required" (You must update License Statistics Agent to continue using the agent) |
Version is colored green | Version is colored |
orange | Version is colored |
red | Version is colored red A popup notification with number of outdated agents displays for License Statistics administrators |
Feature support per version
The following table shows the features supported by the different versions of the License Statistics Agent.
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End User Mode | Server Mode | |||||
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Monitoring | License Harvesting | License Server Management | ||||
Autodesk | Custom Application |
Graceful | Force | Suspend | Dry Run | ||||
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6.7 | |||||||
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6.10 | |||||||
6.11 | |||||||
6.12 | |||||||
6.13 | |||||||
6.14 | |||||||
6.15 | |||||||
6.16 | |||||||
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6.19 | |||||||
6.20 |