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Software Usage Server

The software usage server is responsible for the following actions:

• Managing licensing information as all software usage agents report to the server.
• Managing queued users and assigning licenses to them, as they become available.
• Maintaining license queuing information on applications configured for online software usage monitoring.
• Reporting license information, by request, to the DSM Explorer.

This server can run as a service on any platform that supports Scalability Server.

Note: When the software usage configuration is changed, the software usage server is updated by the new configuration. The server then resets any information about currently used licenses and queues. As a result, when an agent requests for an application next time, the license count is shown as 1.