The information on this page refers to License Statistics v6.19 and newer, which replaced terms "Usernames" and "Hostnames" with "Users" and "Hosts" (respectively) in the Data Anonymization section of the Data Management page. If you are using an earlier version, please refer to the documentation for earlier versions. |
Data anonymization is available only with Licensing Model 2019. |
Anonymization has no impact on licensing. The number of users/hosts before and after anonymization will remain the same. |
Anonymization is irreversible, because it replaces the original usernames/hostnames with hash codes. |
Data anonymization lets you anonymize historical data for all license servers, including:
Data anonymization is an "on-demand" operation that can be done at any time. The data anonymization will apply only to historical data older than the date you specify. All new data gathered by License Statistics will not be anonymized unless you issue a new anonymization request. You must restart License Statistics for anonymization to take effect.
Alternatively, you can toggle on "permanent" anonymization when initially configuring a license server. Unlike "on-demand" anonymization, license server anonymization is specific to the license server, applies to all the license server's data (not just historical data), and cannot be enabled/disabled after the license server has been created.
To enable data anonymization for historical data:
Under the Data Anonymization section of the Data Management page, select the date from which to anonymize data.
After anonymization:
Anonymization status for users can be seen in the User General Information panel and the user details tooltip. For example: