In the case of online utilization, the software usage agent continuously monitors when an application is started or stopped and sends this information to the software usage server that resides on the scalability server. Hence, at any point of time you can see the actual number of used licenses in the Online Utilization window in both tabular and graphical form. This information is stored in the file system of the scalability server for a maximum of three days, but not in the database. You can however, explicitly import the data into the database. The software usage agent communicates directly with the software usage server to know whether a license is available for the requested application or not.
Online utilization is helpful when you want to prevent the use of the application when the number of licenses exceed and inform the user who is trying to access the application. You can configure online utilization with the following options:
Produces only the usage start and stop entries.
Produces the usage start and stop entries, checks the licenses in use, and displays a warning message when the number of licenses exceed.
Produces the usage start and stop entries, checks the licenses in use, and prevents the execution of the application when the number of licenses exceed. You can put these users in queue and allow access when licenses are available.
Note: Online utilization is supported only on Windows agents.
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