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License Statistics considers a "user" to be a unique person or a machine that is accessing the monitored applications.

You can see a realtime user count in the Realtime User Count report's Total Users column. In addition, you can review the import log to obtain a user count for imported data.

For realtime usage, the total users is a count of unique usernames that were using a license in the last 14 days. For example, if the report shows 10 total users for 2011-05-20, this indicates that there were 10 different users from May 7 through May 20 (inclusive) who used licenses on all the realtime license servers that License Statistics monitors. This count always shows the past 14 days of use; that is, it does not restart at zero again after 14 days.

User count for imported data is similar, but does not have a 14-day limit. See Imported feature usage for more information. 

The user count is not based on the number of applications being used, but rather on a) the number of users and b) the number of hosts (machines) the users are running applications from; that is, a unique user/hostname combination. For example:

  • If User1 runs one application using only HostA, that user is counted as one user.
  • If User1 runs two or more applications, still using only HostA, that user is still counted as one user.
  • If User1 runs an application from HostA and HostB, either simultaneously or at separate times, User1 is counted as two users.

For applications that use more than one machine (for example, EDA applications), user count is commonly as follows; however, ask your application vendor how their licensing works in such cases.

  • If User1 uses his own computer to start EDA_ApplicationA on license servers ServerA and ServerB, thereby consuming a license for User1's computer and for the two servers, this will result in a user count of 3 (User1, ServerA and ServerB are each considered "users" of the application).
  • If User2 also starts EDA_ApplicationA using ServerA and ServerB at the same time as User1, User2 will count as one more user, for a total of 4 users.
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