The information on this page refers to License Statistics v6.13 and newer, which renamed "read-only mode" to "restricted access mode." If you are using a version previous to v6.13, see documentation for previous versions. |
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Licensing Model 2013 is deprecated as of v6.0, but will continue to work with all License Statistics versions, including v5.x and v6.x, according to the rules described in the License Transition section. |
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Beginning with License Statistics v6.2, some new features will not be available for use with Licensing Model 2013. Existing functionality (implemented prior to v6.2) will continue to work with the Licensing Model 2013. |
License type by license server gathering type
All license types can be delivered with one or both of the gathering types described below.
| License Gathering Type | Description |
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| Realtime | Default and required license type which allows for monitoring limited number of license serves in realtime. |
| Import | Optional add-on to License Statistics which allows for importing usage of limited number of license servers from log files. |
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The Realtime license allows importing denial data to an existing realtime license server (vendor name and manager type must match). You must have an Import license to import usage data. |
License type by user counting
The
License Type
License Statistics needs to have one valid license loaded in order to work. Types of licenses are described in tables below.
License Type by purpose
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Delivered with License Statistics installer only. Can be used for evaluation and testing purposes only. It's the default license type which is loaded if no other valid license was delivered.
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License Type by user counting
All purpose license types described above can can be delivered with one of user counting types variationsthe following user-count licensing methods.
| License User-Count Type | Unique User | Description | Example |
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| User-Host | Username + Hostname | Default |
| method for counting license users, where a single user is a unique pair of |
| username and |
| hostname. |
User license count: 3 | |
| Username | Username | Optional method for counting license |
| users, where a single user |
| is counted as a unique username, even when using licenses on multiple hostnames. |
User license count: 2 |
License Type by License Server gathering type
All purpose license types described above can can be delivered with one or both gathering types.
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Optional add-on to License Statistics which allows for importing usage of limited number of license servers from logfiles.
License Type by license delivery type
All purpose license types (except Trial) described above can can be delivered with one of the variations.
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Optional when running multiple License Statistics instances. Requires separate LM-X License Manager instance to deliver the network license.
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License limits
Limiting number of
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users
Commercial licenses are delivered with user limit which is the maximum number of unique users (usernames or user-host pairs) which can be monitored by License Statistics in within a specified time range separately for each . The number of users is calculated differently depending on the gathering type:
- Realtime User Count limit is the maximum number of users monitored on realtime license servers in the last 14 days.
- Imported User Count limit is the maximum number of users monitored on imported license servers in the entire history (all imported users are counted).
Denied User Count are free and unlimited - user is unlimited. User denials are not counted to in the user license limit in this licensing.
Limiting number of
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license servers
Commercial licenses are delivered with a license server limit, which is the sets a maximum number of license servers added to be monitored by License Statistics separately for each gathering type:that can be added for License Statistics monitoring. The license server limit is done differently depending on gathering type, as described below.
- Realtime license servers Realtime License Servers limit is the maximum number of realtime license servers which that can be actively monitored in the same time. License Servers which servers that are disabled by the customer are nor countednot counted. Customer The customer can add an unlimited number of realtime license servers, but the application will start monitoring only the maximum number the license allows.
- Imported License Servers license servers limit is the maximum number of license servers which that can be imported to License Statistics using import logs. Only License Servers imported in the last 3 months are counted towards the limit.
Exceeding the license
Licensing issues
In some cases License Statistics thresholds can be exceed. The application will react on this situation differently depends on the case. In the table below there are listed situations when the license is exceed or expiredhandles issues with exceeding license thresholds or expiration date differently depending on the case, as described in the following table.
| Type | Description | License Type | Result in License Statistics |
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| v5.x | Result in License Statistics |
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| v6.x | What to do next? | ||||
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| Issue occurred when starting License Statistics | |||||
| Version mismatch | |||||
The License Statistics version does not match the license version. | All |
| License Statistics fails to start |
| . | License Statistics starts in restricted access mode. |
Load |
a license with a version equal to or higher than |
License Statistics has. | |||
| Invalid license | Conflict in configuration between realtime and imported configuration. | All (Import only) | Not applicable |
| License Statistics starts in restricted access mode. | Contact support. |
| There is no realtime license to load. | All |
| License Statistics fails to start. |
| License Statistics starts in restricted access mode. | Contact support. |
| Maintenance expired |
The License Statistics version is newer than the maintenance expiration date in the license. | All |
| License Statistics fails to start. |
| License Statistics starts in restricted access mode. | Load |
| a license with active maintenance. | |
| License expired | Historical data |
| prior to the date when the trial was started exists in the database. | Trial |
| License Statistics fails to start. |
| License Statistics starts in restricted access mode. | Load a commercial license. Start a Trial license with an empty database. |
License expiration date has |
been exceeded. | Trial |
Subscription
University Test |
| License Statistics fails to start. |
| License Statistics starts in restricted access mode. | Load |
a license with an active expiration time. Load |
a Perpetual license. |
| User limit exceeded | Number of realtime users in the database from the last 14 days |
| exceeds the license limit. | Perpetual |
Test |
| License Statistics fails to start. |
| License Statistics starts in restricted access mode. | Load |
a license with a higher realtime user limit. | |
| Number of all imported users in the database exceeds the license limit. | Perpetual |
Test (Import only) |
| License Statistics fails to start. |
| License Statistics starts in restricted access mode. | Load |
a license with a higher imported user limit. | |
| License Server limit exceeded | Number of imported license servers in the database from the last 3 months |
| exceeds the license limit. | Perpetual |
Test (Import only) |
| License Statistics fails to start. |
| License Statistics starts in restricted access mode. | Load |
a license with a higher imported license server limit. | |||||
| Issue occurred when running License Statistics | |||||
| Maintenance expired | License Server was created or updated to version higher than the last monitored before the maintenance expiration date passed. | All | Data from querying | ||
is skipped. License |
server status |
changes to "Down". | Data from querying was skipped. License Server status changed to " |
Offline". | Revert |
the license server to a version with a date prior to maintenance expiration. Load |
a license with active maintenance. | ||
| License expired | License expiration date has passed. | Trial |
University Test | Monitoring of all |
license servers is disabled (status: Disabled visible for all |
license servers), but GUI remains operative. No more logs are imported. | Switching to |
restricted access mode |
No more logs are imported.
Load theLoad a license with an active expiration time. Load |
a Perpetual license. |
| User limit exceeded | While monitoring the |
| license server, the number of users to save |
| exceeds the |
| user license count limit. | Perpetual |
Test | Data from querying |
is skipped. License |
server status |
changes to "Down." |
Notification about the incident |
is sent (if configured). | Data from querying |
is skipped. License |
server status |
changes to " |
Offline." |
Notification about the incident |
is sent (if configured). | Load |
a license with a higher realtime user limit. Disable some license servers to reduce load. |
| License |
| server limit exceeded |
| One or more new realtime license servers |
| were created, but there are no more available licenses. | Perpetual |
Test | Monitoring |
does not |
start. License |
server status |
changes to "Disabled" | Monitoring |
does not |
start. License |
server status |
changes to "License Exceeded." | Load |
a license with a higher realtime license server limit. Disable/remove other realtime license servers to free the license. | ||||
| Tried to import new license server, but there are no more available licenses. | Perpetual Test (Import only) | Data is not imported. License server is not created. | Data is not imported. | Load a license with a higher imported license server limit. Remove other imported license server(s) to free the license. |
| Normally, License Statistics prevents the following issues from occurring upon runtime, but they may occur in rare case, such as when anetwork license is changed on the license server |
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| Version mismatch | |||||
| The License Statistics version does not match the license version. | All | Monitoring of all |
license servers is disabled (status: Disabled visible for all |
license servers), but GUI remains operative. No more logs are imported. |
Switching to read-only mode
No more logs are imported.
License Statistics switches to restricted access mode. | Load a license with a version equal to or higher than License Statistics has. |
| User |
| limit exceeded | Number of realtime users in database from last 14 days |
exceeds the license limit. | Perpetual |
Subscription
Test | Monitoring of all License Servers |
is disabled (status: Disabled visible for all License Servers), but GUI remains operative. No more logs are imported. |
Switching to read-only mode
No more logs are importedLicense Statistics switches to restricted access mode. | Load |
a license with a higher realtime user limit. | |
Number of all imported users in database exceeds the license limit. | Perpetual |
Test (Import only) | Monitoring of all License Servers |
is disabled (status: Disabled visible for all License Servers), but GUI remains operative. No more logs are imported. |
Switching to read-only mode
No more logs are importedLicense Statistics switches to restricted access mode. | Load |
a license with a higher imported user limit. |
| License |
| server limit exceeded | Number of imported license servers in database from the last 3 months |
exceeds the license limit. | Perpetual |
Subscription
Test (Import only) | Monitoring of all |
license servers is disabled (status: Disabled visible for all |
license servers), but GUI remains operative. No more logs are imported. |
Switching to read-only mode
No more logs are importedLicense Statistics switches to restricted access mode. | Load |
a license with a higher imported license server limit. |