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Specify Parameters for Online Tracking

Use the Online tab to specify the parameters for tracking online usage of all the applications added in the collect task.

Important! Online software usage is not supported on UNIX or Linux agents.

1. Select Enable Online Software Usage to enable software usage tracking of all the applications added in the collect task. Selecting this option lets you view the software usage, offline and online utilizations, and online queuing in the Online Utilization View window. If you check this option, the software usage agent runs as a separate process on the agent machine and continuously updates the domain manager with the latest information. If you clear this option, the domain manager collects the usage information from the asset management agent only when the agent starts.

   Note: You must specify the Software Usage File Name in the Create New Product Dialog - Recognition Tab to enable software usage tracking.

2. Select the name of the software usage server that stores the usage details, maintains queues, notifies the software usage agent about the availability of the application, and so on from the Server drop-down list.

   Note: If you have more than one server configured to be used as software usage server, consider that these servers do not communicate with each other. The total number of licenses and the number of used licenses are controlled independently.

3. Click Check Connection to check the connection to the selected software usage server. It also displays a message whether the connection is OK.
4. Select Prevent applications from being started if the Software Usage Server is not available to prevent the usage of the application by any user until the software usage server is available.
5. Select Put users in queue if there is no license available to put the users in queue when a license is not available. The software usage server notifies the agents of the users in queue if a license is available. This option must be used with the Prevent execution, and display prevent message option in the Add Application for Monitoring dialog.
6. Click OK.

More information:

Offline Utilization View Window

Create New Release/Suite/Patch Dialog - Recognition Tab

Online Utilization View Window