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

Realtime usage

You can see a realtime user count in the Realtime Users Count report, which lists concurrent hosts and daily users on all realtime servers for every day usage is monitored. From this report, you can access a 14-day history of all usernames and hostnames that used monitored licenses for any given date. For example, if you view the 14-day user history for 2012/03/31, you will see the usage details for 2012/03/16 through 2012/03/31. The number of rows in the 14-day history can be used to determine your needs for License Statistics licensing.

Importing of denial logs is licensed under Realtime licensing, and the user count is tracked using the same method. Other imported usage is licensed separately, and tracked as detailed below.

See Realtime Users Count report for further information about viewing realtime usage history. 

Imported usage

You can review the import log to obtain a user count for imported data. Note the following for imported usage data:

• The total users count includes every user that used a license that is included in the import log, regardless of the date of usage. This differs from realtime user count history, which only counts users who used a license within the past 14 days (as described above). 
• The total server count is the number of servers for which data was imported during the past 3 months. Any servers for which data was imported more than 3 months ago are not included in the total server count.

Examples of user count

Users are counted as described in the following examples.

• 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.