The information on this page refers to License Statistics v6.11, which redesigned license server administration and resulted in removing functionality related to "realtime" license servers and "gathering type." If you are running an older version of License Statistics, see documentation for versions prior to v6.11. |
This glossary lists terms that are specific to License Statistics and feature usage monitoring.
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License requestLic Lic | A request made by a user to obtain a particular software license. |
Usage |
| Refers to the use of a license, which means that the license is taken from a pool of available licenses. A user can use two licenses of the same feature, as shown below. Users Using License
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| A type of license usage that allows a user to use a |
network floating license without being connected to the license server.
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| The denial of a request for a license. |
License Reservation Anchor |
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| License Reservation def |
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| License is assigned to a specific user and cannot be utilized by another user without an administrator reassigning the license to another user. For reservations, a "user" is defined by a set of rules with various parameters, which may include the following, depending on the license server: - Dynamic
- User
- User Group
- Host
- Host Group
- IP
- Project
- Display
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Realtime Denial Anchor |
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| Realtime Denial def |
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| The denial of a license request. |
Denied Requests Log Anchor |
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| Denied Requests Log def |
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| One or more log files that contain data about denials. |
Feature Versioning Anchor |
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| Feature versioning def |
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| When Feature Versioning is set, features shown in lists include a separate entry for each version of that feature, and are named feature_version throughout License Statistics. |
Monitoring Anchor |
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| Monitoring def |
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| Monitoring def |
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| | Gathering |
realtime information from a particular license server about feature usage details. |
Importing Anchor |
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| Importing def |
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| Importing def |
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| | Gathering information from a license server log file about feature usage details. |
Last Update Time Anchor |
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| The last time at which License Statistics received an update from a license server. |
Entities |
| An application. |
| One or more ASCII text files written by a license server. |
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Lic Lic Lic | License for particular software. |
| The definition of a license.
The parts of a feature are: - Name (for example, Windows).
- Version (one feature can have multiple versions, such as Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and so on).
- Type, which can be:
- Floating
- Node-locked
- Token
As shown in the diagram below, a feature is defined by its name, version and type. There can be multiple versions with the same name, but each version can have only three license types: nodelocked, floating, or token. Although the features may share the same name, each feature with a different version and/or type is an individual, unique feature.
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Lic def | A solution that provides the ability to manage licenses. |
| An application or person that requests a license. Info |
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Technically unique User in all contexts is a unique username. |
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| The computer on which a user is accessing a license. A user can use a feature on more than one host, and a host can be used by more than one user, as shown below.
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Technically uniqueness of the Host depends on the context: - for reporting purposes, tracking licenses usage and denials: unique pair of hostname and ip address
- for administration and licensing purposes: unique hostname
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Lic Lic | Software hosting licenses for a single software vendor. A license server can be |
one of the following:Imported license server: A license server from which data was imported.Realtime license server: A license server for which data were gathered through monitoring.Monitored license server : Realtime license server for which license usage data is being gathered. License server group: Two Gathering type def | Gathering type def | an individual license server or a license server group (two or more license servers that are treated as one). |
| The manufacturer of a software application using a particular license manager.
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license server type (Realtime or Imported). Anchor |
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Query interval def | Query interval def | Query Interval A value (number of minutes) specified for how often feature usage data is gathered for a monitored license serversource of data being used for statistics gathering (Remote, Imported, or End User). |
Linux system | Refers to |
Linux32 or Linux64 Linux x64 platform. |
Windows system | Refers to |
Win32 or