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Accessing License Statistics usage data

License Statistics runs an embedded HTTP server that handles requests for HTML pages, which contain usage statistics tables provides visually rich charts and graphs , and makes the pages accessible to view and manage from a web browser. Web pages are automatically generated and updated, so no user interaction is required to generate and maintain the latest statistics. 

Usage statistics are time-sensitive; that is, they are updated based on your system clock time. To ensure the time is updated regularly and accurately across the machines, both the license server and License Statistics server should use Because data usage is time-based, a License Statistics administrator should ensure that the machine hosting the monitored license server uses NTP (Network Time Protocol). OtherwiseIdeally, the time between the license server and the License Statistics server may be out of sync, which affects statisticsmachine on which License Statistics is installed and the machine hosting the monitored license server should be in sync.

Before using License Statistics, you must configure it for your site, including specifying the HTTP server port. License Statistics runs as a service on Windows or as a daemon on Linux. Because License Statistics runs as a background process, it will run even when no user is logged into the License Statistics server machine.

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