| The information on this page refers to License Statistics v6.9 or newer, which introduced Agent groups for Autodesk license server. |
Monitoring Autodesk license usage requires using two independent methods to gather data from the Autodesk cloud platform and the host running the Autodesk licenses, as detailed below.
| Data collection method | How it works | Required configuration |
|---|---|---|
| HTTP monitoring | License Statistics performs HTTP monitoring of the Autodesk cloud platform (https://manage.autodesk.com) to gather information about your licensed products, number of licenses, and users assigned to the licenses. | When configuring an Autodesk license server, you must provide a valid administrator username and password for the Autodesk cloud platform. |
| License Statistics Agent tool | The Autodesk cloud platform does not deliver data about usage. In order to gather usage statistics, License Statistics uses the License Statistics Agent add-on tool. This tool monitors the Autodesk applications that are running on the end-user host machines and sends the usage data (hostname, username and application name, along with the date the session was started/stopped) to License Statistics. | To use License Statistics Agent, you must install and configure it on the end-user host. In order to determine which Agent should be used to monitor an Autodesk application, you will need to:
All agents that belong to the group(s) will start automatically monitoring Autodesk applications on their hosts. |
License Statistics combines the data from HTTP monitoring and License Statistics Agent, and processes the data for displaying in the standard grids and reports in the License Statistics UI.