What is the difference between License Statistics real-time usage and imported usage reporting?

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Article ID: 263

Last Updated: 29th October 2010 10:39:52 am

License Statistics real-time usage reporting works by gathering real-time data and usage statistics at specified intervals and storing the information in a MySQL database.

The update interval cannot be less than 1 minute, which may produce small inaccuracies in the results, particularly when monitoring applications that run for only several seconds. However, you can easily see a trend over time, and for most applications (where users use the application for hours), the results average out.

Advantages to realtime usage include:

You can set it up once and forget about it.
It gives you knowledge about current activity so you can answer questions about who is using the software now, which licenses are over-utilized, who cannot access the software, which license servers are down, and so on, all in real time.

License Statistics imported usage reporting is used for existing data gathered from the log files of a variety of supported license managers,(you can see a list of supported license managers at our KB article, Which license managers does License Statistics support?).

License Statistics imported usage reporting is useful for when you need to reliably generate usage statistics for applications that run for a very brief period of time (such as compliers), and when you must have 100% accuracy in the produced results.

License Statistics imported usage reports are also particularly helpful for companies that do back-billing or pay-per-use billing. Additionally, since imported usage reporting does not require a connection to the license servers, it can be used for:

Billing purposes, where the license servers are at the customer's site and License Statistics software is at the vendor's site.
Analyzing data from remote license servers in departments that run on separate networks.