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76 MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide
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.