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A new licensing model was introduced with License Statistics 6.0 to simplify the licensing rules. The new licensing model is not supported by License Statistics versions older than 6.0. The new licensing model is now the default 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 together under the single license (including Imported Users, Realtime Users, and Denials).
- Counts all users in the entire history available for reporting.
- Allows License Statistics administrators to reduce license consumption by removing unneeded data (for example, features or license servers).
License Servers
In relation to how license servers are licensed, the new license model:
- Counts all types of license servers together (including Realtime license servers and Imported license servers). As a result, each Imported license server reduces the number of available Realtime License Servers that can be actively monitored.
- Restricts the total number of Imported and actively monitored Realtime License Servers from exceeding the license limit.
- Allows License Statistics administrators 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. 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).
Limiting number of License Servers
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 Server limit is the maximum number of imported and realtime license servers that can be actively monitored simultaneously. License Servers that are disabled by the License Statistics administrator are not counted. Customers can add unlimited realtime license servers, but the application will monitor only the maximum number the license allows. Note that each imported license server decreases the number of realtime license servers that can be monitored.
Licensing issues
License Statistics will handle occurrences where usage thresholds are exceeded or the license/maintenance expires as described in the following table.
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