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This glossary lists terms that are specific to License Statistics and license usage monitoring.

Client applicationA software program that requests or receives a license from a license server.
Log fileOne or more ASCII text files written by a license server. Log files contain information that can be imported into License Statistics and used to track license usage. (See Imported license server.)
Feature

Any functionality of an application that is licensed. The definition of a feature depends on how the software vendor distributes an application, but might include (for example):

  • A single program (irrespective of program version)
  • A specific version of a program
  • An application system consisting of multiple programs
  • A module of a program
Floating license

A license that runs an application for users on a network. A license server is required to manage a floating license. With this type of license, the number of concurrent users is counted, with the licensed application usable by only a specified number of users at any time.

Also referred to as network license or shared license.

Imported license serverA license server that is being monitored using existing data in one or more license server logs.
Realtime license serverA license server that is being monitored at specified intervals to gather data about usage as it occurs.
Local license

A license that runs on a single specific machine, as opposed to being on a network. Node-locked licenses do not require a license server because they are uncounted.

VendorThe developer/distributor of a software application.
License fileA text file shipped to an end user, which provides one or more features.
License server

A license server is defined as a software application hosting licenses for a single software vendor (e.g. vendor daemon), and not a physical machine.

A license server is required to manage a floating license.

Configuration file

The License Statistics configuration file, xflicstat.cfg, which specifies settings such as License Statistics output file paths, update intervals, and the host server information of the applications for which License Statistics will gather statistics.

Windows systemRefers to Win32 or Win64 platform.
Unix systemRefers to Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Mac OS X and FreeBSD platforms.
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