Reporting on License Usage

The functionality available from the Reporting tab enables you to understand how licensed applications are used in your enterprise. Using FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications reporting, you can generate a variety of license usage reports, which can assist you in making decisions about your organization’s software assets and licensing requirements.

Using FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications’s investment planning functionality, you can also generate reports that show usage by product, rather than only by licensed feature.

Note:The Flexera Analytics and Organizational Structures sections are available under the Reporting tab only if Flexera Analytics (Cognos) has been configured.

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Classic reports are FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications historical reports—typically run overnight—that provide aggregated historical data, based on the data collected from report logs.

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Flexera Analytics reports are generated using Flexera Analytics reporting function. These reports can provide more immediate data because the reports can be generated more quickly.

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FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications supports usage reporting based on organizational structure. Organizational structures enable grouping and sub-grouping of users, vendors, and hosts in a hierarchical order.

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If your organization uses applications from Autodesk, which implement tier-based licensing, see the Tiers section for information about enabling this functionality in FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications.

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Report log files contain feature usage information and are generated by vendor daemons. However, a vendor daemon does not write report logs by default; this action must be enabled. The data in report logs is compressed and authenticated, and is used only by FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications reporting.

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FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications provides enterprises with the ability to import and report on usage from third-party report logs. Using the Report Log Definitions page, you can create definitions for non-FlexNet report logs to facilitate import into FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications.

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Functionality available from the Usage Data Maintenance section enables you to delete usage data that is older than the specified number of months.

For more information about FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications reporting, including the benefits of using Classic reports or Flexera Analytics reports, and the data models they use, see the FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications 2024 R2 Reporting Guide and the Flexera Analytics Guide.