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Warning
This page refers to functionality that has been removed from License Statistics. This information no longer applies to License Statistics v6.3 and newer.

Obtaining information about user hosts

You can easily list user-on-host pairs by sending the following HTTP request.

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GET /api/v1/report/features/user-history/user-hosts/${returnType}?sd=${startDateYYYY-MM-DD}&ed=${endDateYYYY-MM-DD}&(additional parameters, as needed)

...

Applies filtering license usage data on all fields.

To filter by a string column, use the following format:

 

ParameterRequiredTypeDescription
${returnType}YesstringSpecifies the format in which license usage data will be returned. The format can be one of the following: JSON, CSV, XLSX, or PDFStandard format option. See Making an API request for details.
sdYesstringdateSpecifies the start date for which the report will be generated.The date is in YYYY-MM-DD format; for example, 2017-05-20.
edYesstringdateSpecifies the end date for which the report will be generated. The date is in YYYY-MM-DD format; for example, 2017-05-27.rn.
standard report optionsNostring

Specifies the name of the report that will be displayed once the report has been exported to PDF or XLSX. For CSV and JSON formats this parameter will be ignored.
If you don't pass this parameter, it will be generated automatically for PDF and XLSX types. If provided, it cannot be left empty.

filterNojson/string
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[
    { 
        "type": "string",
        "field": "${ un | hn }",
        "value": "${value}"
    }
]
fieldsVisibilityNojson/string

Specifies field visibility settings, like this:

 

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{
    "uid": "1",
    "un":  "1",
    "hn":  "1"
}

where "1" indicates that a specific field is visible and ''0" indicates that it is not.

Note that the order of the settings you make is important – when exported, the fields will be visible in exactly the same order you specify here.

limitNointegerDetermines the maximum number of data records that can be returned. The value must be greater than zero.offsetNointegerSpecifies the offset of the first row to return.orderByNostring

Specifies the field by which you want to order your data records. The field name can be one of the following:

uid | un | hn

(See this section for more field-specific information.)

If orderBy is provided, orderDirection is mandatory.

orderDirectionNostringDetermines whether the sorting results will be displayed in ascending (ASC) or descending (DESC) order. If orderDirection is provided, orderBy is mandatory.

Response

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{
    success: ${success},
    msg: ${message},
    data: [{
        "uid": ${userId},
        "un": ${userName},
        "hn": ${hostName},
        "uil": ${userIsLdap}
    }],
    "code": ${errorCode},
    "totalCount": ${totalNumberOfRecords}
}

...

various

See Making an API request for details.

Response

On success, this report will contain one row for each user that used any license in the specified time range and each host on which the license was used. Each row consists of the following columns.


...

FieldTypeDescriptionuidintegerUser ID.

un

stringUsername.

hn

stringHostname.

uil

ColumnFull nameTypeDescriptionVisible by default in export
uidUser IDintegerInternal License Statistics identification of user that checked out licenses.(tick)Yes

un

UserstringName of the user that checked out licenses.(tick)Yes

hn

HoststringThe host where the user checked out licenses.(tick)Yes

uil

User is from LDAP

boolean

Indicates whether user details have been imported from an LDAP directory. Note that you cannot filter and order data by this field.

msg

string

Error message returned on failure.

success

boolean

Indicates whether your API request was successfully processed. 

codeinteger

Error code for unsuccessful request.

totalCountintegerTotal number of all matching results
(error) Unavailable

Note that the order in the table is the default order of the columns in the exported file.

 Example

The following example shows a command that downloads data in CSV format about user-on-host pairs that were using licenses for 20172019-01-01 through 20172019-01-14.

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curl -H "X-Auth-token: token" "http://yourdomain/api/v1/report/features/user-history/user-hosts/csv?sd=20172019-01-01&ed=20172019-01-14"