Usage Efficiency Report

A Usage Efficiency report creates a bar chart that shows how long each successive license for a feature was in use. This report enables you to see the efficiency of license usage and to more accurately determine how many licenses your organization needs for a particular feature.

This report shows you the maximum number of licenses checked out at one time compared to the total number of licenses available. The first bar in the graph shows how long the first license for that feature was checked out, the second bar shows how long a second license was checked out, and so on, up to the maximum number of licenses checked out at one time.

Several notations may appear on this report, representing the following types of unusual usage:

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Usage of overdraft licenses—denoted by an asterisk (*). For example, a bar marked as 4* represents the amount an overdraft license is used.

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Usage in excess of the license limit—denoted by a question mark (?). For example, a bar marked as 5? represents the amount five licenses were used simultaneously if the license limit were less than five.

To create a Usage Efficiency report configuration:

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From the Reporting tab, under Classic Reporting, click Report Configurations. This displays the Report Configurations page.

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For the Usage Efficiency report configuration, click Edit to launch the Create Report Configuration Wizard.

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In the Create Report Configuration: Naming page, provide a name and description for your report configuration, specify a date range, and select the vendor daemons and license server hosts from which you want report log data.

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In the Create Report Configuration: Feature Selection page, select the features whose report logs you want to use to provide data, and specify how you want the features identified in the report.

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In the Create Report Configuration: Filter Properties page, create filters to focus the data that is displayed in the report.

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In the Create Report Configuration: Summary Options page, specify breakdown categories for report data and select the time periods to include in the report.

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In the Create Report Configuration: Output Options page, select the report output format, specify sort order, and provide additional output-related information.

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In the Create Report Configuration: Graph Options page, customize the graphic elements of the report.

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Click Finish or Finish & Run.

See Also

Running Classic Reports

Classic Reporting