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license monitor tools


GURVINDER SOKHI (731339) | asked Nov 09 '11, 6:51 p.m.
what sort of RTC license monitor tools are available to track license usage patterns. how is easy is it detect unsed user accounts that may be left the company or moved?
BTW i understand minimum license float time is 2hrs. it that right? can you bump a user?

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Benjamin Chodroff (8985231) | answered Oct 13 '12, 9:29 a.m.
It is very difficult, unfortunately.

We use a bunch of scripting at oncloudone.net to be able to detect usage. It is impossible to detect authorized user license - but you can at least see when a user logs in. We do login monitoring using Tomcat access logs or WebSphere Security Auditing. You need to tune both of these to turn down the verbosity! We then have a bunch of custom scripts to parse these logs to determine peak concurrency, inactive users, and more. We also use the floating user license logs which you can configure in the JTS advanced properties.

The minimum time for floating user licenses is 2 hours. There is no legal way to bump users out of a floating user license. You could, technically, automate the removal of a floating license from a user after a period of time and reassign it to others - but I doubt that's legal ;)

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