The information on this page refers to License Statistics v6.20 or newer, which removed support for Windows Server 2012 R2. If you are using an earlier version, please refer to the documentation for earlier versions.

The supported platforms and hardware requirements for running License Statistics are detailed below. 

Supported platforms

License Statistics is supported on the following Windows and Linux distributions.

Windows 64-bitLinux 64-bit
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 10 LTSB
  • Windows 11
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2022
  • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  • Red Hat Enterprise 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise 9
  • Debian 10
  • Debian 11
  • Debian 12
Although we do our best to ensure License Statistics runs on Windows and Linux distributions not listed above, we do not guarantee that License Statistics will perform normally on unsupported platforms.

Hardware requirements

The hardware requirements for License Statistics are listed below.

HardwareMinimumRecommended
CPU

2 core

4 core or greater

RAM

4 GB if using an external database

8 GB if using an embedded database

8 GB or greater 
DriveHDDSSD
Requirements may vary depending on the number of license servers you are monitoring and the amount of data License Statistics is processing.

Database requirements

DatabaseMinimum 
MySQLv8.0.31

Software requirements 

LibraryPlatformRequiredCommentDownload link
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable (x64)Windows

No

It needs to be installed in order to use an embedded MySQL database.

External MySQL database can be used instead.

https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe

.NET Framework 4.8WindowsNo

It needs to be installed in order to use License Statistics Manager.

It may already be pre-installed on your version of Windows.

CLI configuration tool can be used instead. 

https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=2085155

Browser requirements

The License Statistics UI runs on most popular browsers, including the following:

BrowserMinimum 
Chromev96
Edgev12
Firefoxv45
Operav76
Safariv15
If you attempt to run License Statistics using an unsupported browser, a message will warn you. You can either switch to a supported browser (recommended) or attempt to run License Statistics in the unsupported browser anyway (not recommended).
Downloading reports on iPad is available for Safari 13+.