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

Actions

Request for license

A request made by a user to obtain a particular software license.

Borrow A type of license usage that allows a user to use a network license without being connected to the license server.
Usage

Refers to the use of a license, which means that the license is taken from a pool of available licenses.

A user can use two licenses of the same feature, as shown below.

Users Using License


Denial  The denial of a request for a license.
Monitoring  Gathering realtime information from a particular license server about feature usage details.
Importing Gathering information from a license server log file about feature usage details.

Entities

SoftwareAn application.
Log fileOne or more ASCII text files written by a license server. 
License
License for particular software.
Feature

The definition of a software license.

The parts of a feature include:

  1. Name (for example, Windows).
  2. Version (one feature can have multiple versions, such as Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and so on).
  3. Type, which can be:
    1. Floating
    2. Node-locked
    3. Token

As shown below, a feature consists of Name+Version+Type.

Feature

 

The following diagram shows a feature example.

 

Feature Example


The following diagram shows features being hosted by a license server. In this example, we have two different versions of Windows, Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Note that the Windows 7 version is on two license servers, but the feature Floating under Windows 7 is on only one license server.

Feature Representation


User An application or person that requests a license.
Host 

The computer on which a user is accessing a license.

A user can use a feature on more than one host, and a host can be used by more than one user, as shown below.

User on Hosts


License server

Software hosting licenses for a single software vendor. A license server can be one of the following:

  • Import license server: A license server from which data was imported.
  • Realtime license server: A license server for which data were gathered through monitoring.
  • Monitored license server : Realtime license server for which license usage data is being gathered. 
  • License server group: Two or more license servers that are treated as one. 
VendorThe manufacturer of a software application using a particular license manager.
Gathering Type The license server type (Realtime or Imported).
Query Interval A value (number of minutes) specified for how often feature usage data is gathered for a monitored license server.
Linux systemRefers to Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Mac OS X and FreeBSD platforms.
Windows systemRefers to Win32 or Win64 platform.

 

 

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