Hybrid Organizational Structures
Your enterprise may need to provide usage data for an organizational structure, where the data is specific to the licenses served from an individual license server. To do this, you need usage data that is aggregated for the organizational structure and for the license server. You can use hybrid organizational structures to do this, for user-based organizational structures.
When you create a hybrid organizational structure (or update an existing organizational structure to be a hybrid organizational structure), you enable the organizational structure for hybrid aggregation that is based on the vendor daemons you select. FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications aggregates the data by organizational structure and by license server.
To create a hybrid organizational structure, you enable aggregation by license server, then specify the vendor daemons for which you want FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications to aggregate usage by license server. Usage for vendor daemons that are not identified in the hybrid-organization definition will be aggregated as usual. (That is, usage data by license server will not be available unless a vendor daemon is specified in the hybrid-organization definition.)
You can enable hybrid aggregation for both standard user-based organizational structures and for virtual organizational structures.
Use Case: Providing Multi-Dimensional Usage Data to a Vendor
For example, a vendor might want to see usage data for your Geographic organizational structure, for the AcmeCo (vendor daemon: acmeco) features served by License Server 1. To do this, you would carry out the following steps:
| 1. | Create a hybrid organizational structure (or enable hybrid aggregation for an existing organizational structure). |
| 2. | Add vendor daemon acmeco to the Selected vendor daemons list for the organizational structure. |
| 3. | Run one of the historical feature reports that is supported for use with hybrid organizational structures. See the topic, Using Hybrid Organizational Structures in Historical Feature Reports, for a list of reports. |
| 4. | In the License server prompt for the report, select Specified license server, then License Server 1. |
| 5. | Run the report. |
See Also
Creating Hybrid Organizational Structures
Using Hybrid Organizational Structures in Historical Feature Reports