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Determining License Availability
The Current Usage page lets you see the number of licenses you have installed, the number of licenses that are in use, and the number of licenses that are available for use and their availability as a percentage of the total number of licenses.
The Current Usage page displays system, license expiration, license usage, and Subscription Advantage alerts. By clicking the red icon that appears beside the alert number, you can see details about the alerts, such as the product name, license model, license type, version date, expiration date, the number of licenses installed, and the number of licenses in overdraft.
You can adjust when alerts appear by changing your threshold options. The Threshold Options page, which is available from the Configuration page, lets you set the values that represent warning and critical levels. Each type of alert, license usage, Subscription Advantage renewal date, and expiration date, all have different thresholds that you can set. The threshold is the value that must be met to raise an alert.
All three types of alerts let you set both warning and critical alert levels. In the case of Subscription Advantage and expiration date alerts, the levels indicate the number of days remaining before expiration. For example, if you put 120 as the number of days remaining before the expiration date, the License Management Console will show an alert on the 120th day before your product’s license expires. For license usage, alerts are raised when the percentage you set as a warning or a critical alert threshold is met.
Perusing Historical Usage
Historical reports are based on log files, the encoded record of license usage generated by the license server. By running historical usage reports, you can choose to see license availability and consumption information for one or more log files. The License Management Console lets you choose the type of product, date range, summary period, and data type you want to use in the report. The term summary period refers to the time period for which you want to generate a report. The term data type refers to the units in which the data is measured; data can be measured in hours, as a percentage, or as a quantity.
You can also change the appearance of the reports by changing the font they appear in, the line weight, and the report color scheme.