This glossary lists terms that are specific to License Statistics and license usage monitoring.
Actions | |
Request for license | A request made by a user to obtain a particular software license. |
Borrow | A type of license usage that allows a user to use a network license without being connected to the license server. |
Usage | Refers to the use of a license, which means that the license is taken from a pool of available licenses. A user can use two licenses of the same feature, as shown below. Users Using License |
Denial | The denial of a request for a license. |
Monitoring | Gathering realtime information from a particular license server about feature usage details. |
Importing | Gathering information from a license server log file about feature usage details. |
Entities | |
Software | An application. |
Log file | One or more ASCII text files written by a license server. |
License | License for particular software. |
Feature | The definition of a software license. The parts of a feature include:
As shown below, a feature consists of Name+Version+Type. Feature
The following diagram shows a feature example.
Feature Example The following diagram shows features being hosted by a license server. In this example, we have two different versions of Windows, Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Note that the Windows 7 version is on two license servers, but the feature Floating under Windows 7 is on only one license server. Feature Representation |
User | An application or person that requests a license. |
Host | The computer on which a user is accessing a license. A user can use a feature on more than one host, and a host can be used by more than one user, as shown below. User on Hosts |
License server | Software hosting licenses for a single software vendor. A license server can be one of the following:
|
Vendor | The manufacturer of a software application using a particular license manager. |
Gathering Type | The license server type (Realtime or Imported). |
Query Interval | A value (number of minutes) specified for how often feature usage data is gathered for a monitored license server. |
Linux system | Refers to Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Mac OS X and FreeBSD platforms. |
Windows system | Refers to Win32 or Win64 platform. |