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How Licensing Information Is Shared Across the Enterprise

Offline Utilization enables several software usage servers to share license information with each other across the enterprise. To configure the software usage collect task to enable this feature, you must first understand how the licensing information is shared by these servers:

1. The Scalability Servers have the offline utilization data of all the connected assets in a file system.
2. This file is replicated by each domain replication job.
3. The engine collect job updates the usage information on the database
4. Whenever an asset requests access to an application, the software usage agent checks the database for availability of license and allows access to the application accordingly.