Incremental Aggregation

Using the Incremental Aggregation page, you can schedule incremental data aggregation, which enables you to control the data set used for, and the timing of data aggregation. For example, you may want to aggregate only data for a specific vendor daemon or data from before a particular date.

Incremental aggregation can be useful when you are first setting up the FlexNet Reporting data warehouse or if your enterprise has FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications’s Planner functionality and going through the software license–planning process.

You can also use the Incremental Aggregation scheduler to import organizational-structure data from an LDAP domain. (See Importing Organizational-Structure Data from LDAP for more information about this functionality.)

If you want to schedule the aggregation task to take place on a recurring, periodic basis, use the Periodic Aggregation page.

Note:To schedule, run, and cancel data aggregation, a user must have a role with the Run and Cancel Aggregation permission.

To define an incremental data aggregation:

From the Reporting tab, under the Usage Data Maintenance section, click Incremental Aggregation to display the Incremental Aggregation page.

For the Aggregation Data Set, specify whether you want to run aggregation:

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For all vendor daemons

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For only selected vendor daemons. Hold down the Control key to select multiple vendor daemons.

For the Aggregation Increment, specify which data you want to aggregate:

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Data from all unprocessed report logs for the selected vendor daemons.

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Data from a specified period for the selected vendor daemons. Specify the beginning and end dates for the period.

Select the Import Org Structure... check box if you want to import organizational-structure data from an LDAP domain prior to aggregation. When this option is selected, FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications will import organizational-structure data for all organizational structures that are associated with LDAP domains.

This option is displayed only if an organizational structure has been created and mapped to an associated LDAP domain.

Run the aggregation immediately or schedule it to run at a later time.

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Click Run Now to run this incremental aggregation immediately.

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Specify a date and time, then click Save Schedule to run this incremental aggregation at the specified time. The time zone is that of the FlexNet Reporting server.

If you choose to schedule the incremental aggregation to run at a later time, the aggregation is displayed in the Scheduled Aggregation list at the bottom of the page. To delete a scheduled incremental aggregation, select the check box in front of the aggregation entry and click Delete. Incremental aggregation tasks cannot be edited.

At the top of the page, the status for the last aggregation will be displayed. If an aggregation is currently running, this will be displayed as well.