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New A new licensing model was introduced with License Statistics 6.0 to simplify the licensing rules and won't be . The new licensing model is not supported by application License Statistics versions lower older than 6.0. It The new licensing model is now the default licensing model for License Statistics. You can find more details on Licensing Transition page. |
Most important changes
Users
for License Statistics 6.0 and newer, and the old licensing model is deprecated as of version 6.0. However, the old licensing model will continue to work with all License Statistics versions, including 5.x and 6.x, according to the rules described in the License Transition section. |
Changes introduced with the new licensing model
The following sections describe the major changes that are introduced with the new licensing model.
Users
In relation to how users are licensed, the new licensing model:
- Counts only usernames (user-host license types are no longer supported).
- Counts all users
- Counting only usernames, no more user-host license type.
- All users are counted together under the single license (including Imported Users, Realtime Users, and Denials).
- All Counts all users are counted in the entire history available for reporting.
- Allows License Statistics administrator can choose to remove some data (eg. administrators to reduce license consumption by removing unneeded data (for example, features or license serves) he doesn't need to reduce license consumptionservers).
License Servers
In relation to how license servers are licensed, the new license model:
- Counts all All types of license servers are counted together (including Realtime license servers and Imported License Serverslicense servers). Each Imported License Server As a result, each Imported license server reduces the number of available Realtime License Servers which that can be actively monitored.
- Total Restricts the total number of Imported and actively monitored Realtime License Servers cannot exceed from exceeding the license limit.
- Allows License Statistics administrator can choose to remove Imported or disable Realtime License Server to reduce license consumptionadministrators to reduce license consumption by removing Imported license servers or disabling Realtime License Servers.
License limits
The following sections describe how the new licensing model handles license limits.
Limiting number of Users
Commercial licenses are delivered with a user count limit, which is the maximum number of unique usernames which can be monitored by License Statistics.Users Count limit is the maximum number of . The user count includes all users monitored in the entire history (all users in the database are counted, including Realtime Usage, Imported Usage and Denials).
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Commercial licenses are delivered with a license server limit, which is the maximum number of license servers that may be added to be monitored by License Statistics.
The License Servers Server limit is the maximum number of imported and realtime license servers which that can be actively monitored in the same timesimultaneously. License Servers which that are disabled by the customer License Statistics administrator are not counted. Customer Customers can add unlimited number of realtime license servers, but the application will start monitoring monitor only the maximum number the license allows. Each Note that each imported license server decreases amount the number of realtime license servers which that can be monitored.
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 exceeded or expiredwill handle occurrences where usage thresholds are exceeded or the license/maintenance expires as described in the following table.
| Type | Description | License Type | Result in License Statistics 6.x | What to do next? |
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| Issue occurred when starting License Statistics | ||||
| Version mismatch | Application The License Statistics version does not match the license version. | All | Starting License Statistics starts in read-only mode. | Load the a license with a version equal to or higher than application License Statistics has. |
| Maintenance expired | Application The License Statistics version is newer than the maintenance expiration date in the license. | All | Starting License Statistics starts in read-only mode. | Load the a license with active maintenance. |
| License expired | Historical data present in database from before prior to the date when the trial was started exists in the database. | Trial | Starting License Statistics starts in read-only mode | Load a commercial license. Start a Trial license with an empty database. |
License expiration date has passedbeen exceeded. | Trial University Test | Starting License Statistics starts in read-only mode. | Load the a license with an active expiration time. Load the a Perpetual license. | |
| Users User limit exceeded | Number of users in the database exceeds the license limit. | Perpetual Test | Starting License Statistics starts in read-only mode. | Load the a license with a higher user limit. Remove some data (ege.g., feature or server). |
| License Server limit exceeded | Number of imported license servers in the database exceeds the license limit. | Perpetual Test | Starting License Statistics starts in read-only mode. | Load the a license with a higher license server limit. Remove some data (ege.g., feature or server). |
| Issue occurred when running License Statistics | ||||
| Maintenance expired | License Server was created or updated to a version higher than the last monitored version before the maintenance expiration date has passedwas exceeded. | All | Data from querying was is skipped. License Server status changed changes to "Down.". | Revert License Server to the version from before the license server to a version with a date prior to maintenance expiration. Load the a license with active maintenance. |
| License expired | License expiration date has passed. | Trial University Test | Switching License Statistics switches to read-only mode. | Load the a license with an active expiration time. Load the a Perpetual license. |
| Users User limit exceeded | While monitoring the License Server, amount license server, the number of users to save would exceed exceeds the user license count limit. | Perpetual Test | Data from querying was is skipped. License Server server status changed changes to "Down.". Notification about the incident will be send is sent (if configured). | Load the a license with a higher user limit. Disable some license servers to reduce load. Remove some data (ege.g., feature or server). |
| License Server limit exceeded | New One or more new realtime license servers was were created, but there are no more available licenses. | Perpetual Test | Monitoring was does not startedstart. License Server server status changed changes to "License Exceeded." | Load the a license with a higher license server limit. Disable/remove other license server servers to free the license. |
| Tried to import new license server, but all licenses are consumed by Realtime and Imported License Servers license servers already. | Perpetual Test | New License Server will be license server is imported, but one of the Realtime License Servers will be is disabled from monitoring. One of Realtime License Servers will change it's the Realtime license servers changes its status to "License Exceeded." | Load the a license with higher license server limit. Disable/remove other license server(s) to free the license. | |
| Tried to import new license server, but all licenses are consumed by Imported License Servers license servers only. | Perpetual Test | Data wasn't is not imported. License Server wasn't server is not created. | Load the a license with higher license server limit. Remove other imported license server(s) to free the license. | |
| (rare cases: normally application prevents them on runtime, but can happen, eg. due to changed network 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). | ||||
| Version mismatch | Application The License Statistics version does not match the license version. | All | Switching License Statistics switches to read-only mode. | Load thea license with a version equal to or higher than applicationLicense Statistics has. |
| Users User limit exceeded | Number of users in database exceeds the license limit. | Perpetual Test | Switching License Statistics switches to read-only mode. | Load the a license with a higher user limit. Remove some data (ege.g., feature or server). |
| License Server server limit exceeded | Number of imported license servers in database exceeds the license limit. | Perpetual Test | Switching License Statistics switches to read-only mode. | Load the a license with a higher license server limit. Remove some imported license servers. |
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