Grace period and Light Restricted Access Mode

Grace Period and Light Restricted Access Mode, available only with License Model 2025, allow for a limited time of continued usage after exceeding your license's usage limit.  

As the graph below illustrates:

• A Grace Period is initiated after exceeding your usage limit by no more than 125% (soft limit) for the last 30 days of monitoring
• The Grace Period will remain in effect for 14 days or until the usage drops back below the limit
• If usage continues to exceed the limit for more than 14 days after the Grace Period begins, Light Restricted Access Mode will automatically be initiated
• If the limit is exceeded by over 125% (hard limit) at any time, Restricted Access Mode will be initiated
• After the Grace Period ends, another Grace Period will not be available for 180 days from the time that the limit was last exceeded
• If the soft limit is exceeded before 180 days has passed, Light Restricted Access Mode will be initiated

In order to run License Statistics without continuing to use the Grace Period/Light Restricted Access Mode/Restricted Access Mode, you must:

• Load a license with a higher user limit
• Wait for the user count to drop; for example, due to a decreased number of active users or disabled license server(s)

For further details, see Grace Period, Light Restricted Access Mode, and Restricted access mode.