The old licensing model for License Statistics is deprecated as of v6.0 and has been replaced with a new licensing model that simplifies the licensing rules.
As of License Statistics v6.0, the application will start as a Trial license type with new licensing rules. All the values displayed on the License Details page in Administration will be calculated according to the new licensing rules.
We are not planning to terminate support for old licensing for existing customers, with the exception of Licensing 2010 customers as noted below. All licenses will continue to work and it will be possible to extend the maintenance on the original licensing rules. However, note that:
| Old licensing (2013) | New licensing (2019) |
|---|---|
Changing existing license terms after March 15, 2020 requires upgrade to New licensing (2019). Note that existing customers, during transition to New licensing (2019), may increase their number of users (up to the limit specified in the License Details page) at no additional cost. | Changing existing license terms possible without limitations. |
| Beginning with License Statistics v6.2, some new features will not be available for use with the old licensing model. Existing functionality (implemented prior to v6.2) will continue to work with the old licensing model. | No limitations on access to features introduced after v6.1.x. |
| Removing imported license server is not releasing the imported license servers license limit. | Removing data (license servers or features) is releasing users and license servers license limits. |
| Not available to new customers. | Available to all customers. |
| Number of actively monitored Realtime License Servers is limited by Realtime License Server license count. | One counter for all License Servers. |
| Number of Imported License Servers is limited by Imported License Server license count. | One counter for all License Servers. |
| Imported License Servers are calculated using data from the last 3 months. | All License Servers are calculated. |
| Separate Realtime and Imported Users usage counting. | One counter for all Users. |
| Denials are not counted towards licensing. | One counter for all Users (including Denials). |
| Realtime Users are calculated from last 14 days. | One counter for all Users (including Realtime Users). |
| Imported Users are calculated in entire history. | One counter for all Users (including Imported Users). |
| Username and User-Host licenses are supported. | Username license is supported, and monitored hosts are limited to 125% of the total users allowed for monitoring. The host limit can be lifted by purchasing a High Performance Computing (HPC) add-on, which allows unlimited hosts to be monitored. |
| Node-locked and Network licenses are supported. | Node-locked and Network licenses are supported. |
| Available for License Statistics v5.x and v6.x. | Available for License Statistics v6.x. |
All customers have the ability to move to the new licensing model. To do this, please contact X-Formation Sales to modify your license configuration and deliver a new license to you. Due to the new licensing model's simplified way of calculating license servers and users, new values for these calculations will need to be set in the new license. Please be prepared to provide our sales representative with the new values, as described in "Determining new license usage" below.
The Activation Key for the license will remain the same. Simple license reactivation will be required in order to use License Statistics v6.0 with the new licensing model.
If you are using License Statistics v5.x, upgrading to v6.x is required in order to determine new licensing requirements.
License Statistics v6.x includes a new License Details tab in the Administration page to help you determine your license usage.