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)
• 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
• 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
• If the limit is exceeded by over 125% (hard limit) at any time, 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)

See the individual sections on Grace Period, Light Restricted Access Mode, and Restricted access mode for more details on each of these states.