Read-only mode was introduced in License Statistics 6.0 for the user convenience. It allows to run application and make basic administration tasks even if the license was exceeded or expired. License Statistics versions prior to 6.0 where not starting in most of cases related to license over-usage or passed expiration time.

Application runs in read-only mode

Read-only mode will be enable automatically in the situations listed below:

• Version of the application is higher than the version in the license. 
  
• License (including Trial) has expired.
• Maintenance expired, but application was upgraded.
  
• Users limit exceeds the license limit.
• License Server limit exceeds the license limit.

Read-only mode capabilities

While read-only mode is running it's possible to:

• login to the application
• access Realtime Users Count report
  
• manage user preferences
• perform all administration actions, in particular:
  • manage License Servers
  • manage Users
  • access License Details 

Read-only mode limitations

While read-only mode is running it's not possible to:

• display any data on reports, grids and charts different than listed above
• monitor any Realtime License Servers, all of them will be blocked from querying
• import any log files