License Statistics version 5.0 includes the enhancements and fixes detailed below. Most of these improvements were made in response to customer feedback. For more information on how we incorporate customer feedback into our development process, see Customer-driven development. For information about activating your License Statistics license, see Activating a License Statistics license on Windows or Activating a License Statistics license online.
In this release we replaced the License Statistics Dashboard with a new customizable Dashboard which can be used for adding, deleting, moving, and minimizing different charts and grids.
With this release, we're introducing a new update script that will remove old, inconsistent data from the database. However, since some of our Customers may wish to keep such data in their database, at the beginning the update script creates a file to safely keep this kind of data. Customers wanting to restore their old data need to verify that their mysql user has permissions to write and/or create files. Otherwise, a backup file will not be created. Whenever upgrading to a newer version, be sure to make a backup of the database(s) to ensure against data loss.
Upgrade Notice
When upgrading to this release, you need to reactivate your existing License Statistics license using your regular license Activation Key (see Activating a License Statistics license on Windows or Activating a License Statistics license online for more details).
Enhancements
License Statistics v5.0 includes the following enhancements.
| Issue# | Description |
|---|---|
| LICSTAT-8400 | Made improvements to user experience by adding the ability to add User History grid to the License Statistics Dashboard. |
| LICSTAT-8396 | Renamed Current Users pie chart in the Current Users report to Current License Usage and renamed Current Users With Highest License Usage bar chart to Highest License Usage to maintain consistency in naming. |
| LICSTAT-8379 | Added the ability to add Expiring Features grid to the Dashboard. |
| LICSTAT-8378 | Enabled adding Current Users grid to the Dashboard. |
| LICSTAT-8377 | Added the ability to add Current Usage On Multiple Hosts report to the Dashboard. |
| LICSTAT-8504 | Added the ability to add Current Usage Above 24 Hours report to the Dashboard. |
| LICSTAT-8376 | Added the possibility of adding Features Expiring In Next 12 Months chart to the Dashboard. |
| LICSTAT-8267 | Added a new feature for generating dynamic titles for the following reports: Expiring Features, Current Usage Above 24 Hours, User History, as well as for the Expiring Features chart. The dynamic title is generated after a report has been added to the Dashboard and is visible in exported reports. |
| LICSTAT-8202 | Added a new Settings panel which replaced the Advanced Filtering panel in the User History grid. |
| LICSTAT-8200 | Enhanced the General Information panel in the User History grid with the following new information: feature version and type; a count of licenses used, borrowed, and reserved; the feature's utilization percentage; last update time. |
| LICSTAT-7929 | Added the ability to add charts from the Current User's report to the Dashboard. |
| LICSTAT-7927 | Added the ability to add Current Utilization report to the Dashboard. |
| LICSTAT-7926 | Added the possibility of adding the License Servers grid to the Dashboard. |
| LICSTAT-7738 | Changed the way of reporting user sessions by listing all user sessions instead of aggregating them. |
| LICSTAT-7185 | Added the ability to filter data in the User History report by year, week, month, etc. |
| LICSTAT-6556 | Created a new backend module that enables better aggregation of usage data. (The development of this module is not complete yet, but we expect that it will significantly improve the quality of generated reports and will deliver greater performance than ever before.) |
| LICSTAT-5825 | Replaced the existing Dashboard with a new, customizable Dashboard. |
| LICSTAT-5657 | Improved error handling and introduced more descriptive error messages. |
Fixes
License Statistics v5.0 includes the following fixes.
| Issue# | Description |
|---|---|
| LICSTAT-8605 | Pinned the "All" option to the top of the Features drop-down list for the Usage Per User report. |
| LICSTAT-8403 | Added support for UI preferences for the Current Users report. |
| LICSTAT-8393 | Fixed a problem with column visibility occurring on some reports and an issue with sorting and filtering on every report to eliminate the problem with exported data not being updated according to currently applied UI preferences. |
| LICSTAT-8386 | Fixed a bug causing the Expiring Features chart to show the value of 0.5 where no features were expiring. |
| LICSTAT-8331 | Fixed an issue that prevented a user that was not logged in from being successfully parsed on 32-bit Linux for RLM realtime parser. |
| LICSTAT-8329 | Added the REPORTSERVER_PORT alias for the existing REPORT_SERVICE_PORT. |
| LICSTAT-8231 | Added support for UI preferences for the Settings panel in the User History report. |
| LICSTAT-8192 | Fixed Feature combo-box for the Usage History report crashing after a user selects a License Server group. |
| LICSTAT-8147 | Added support for UI preferences for the Settings panel in the Current Usage Above 24 Hours report. |
| LICSTAT-8110 | Fixed an issue related to license server hostnames not being parsed for FlexNet realtime parser. |
| LICSTAT-8102 | Added support for UI preferences for the License Servers combo-box in the Expiring Features report. |
| LICSTAT-8014 | Eliminated a problem with a tooltip not displaying its proper content and fixed a link to online documentation for an expired feature in the Current Usage report. |
| LICSTAT-7933 | Introduced a new way of querying Sentinel RMS license server. |