Enabling license-use counting

Click Licenses in the Administration Utility to access the License Use Administration window. Here you can view usage statistics, adjust your license-use count configuration, and even select a log file option enabling you to track Host On-Demand activity of individual users.

License-Use Statistics
License-Use Count (configuration options)

By default, clients report to the Service Manager for license-use counting. Users of the configuration server-based and combined deployment models of Host On-Demand can disable the function in the License-Use Count area. If you use the HTML model, however, and need to disable client communications with the Service Manager (to avoid opening an extra port in your firewall, for example), you must de-activate license-use counting differently. Input the Disable parameter in the Advanced Options window of the Deployment Wizard.

License-Use Statistics

Start date

The date and time that the first check was performed.

Highest number of clients logged on

The highest number of concurrent active clients since the start date, and the date and time that this occurred. The overall information is saved in a file named LicenseOverallHistory.txt in the \private directory. This file contains one entry per day showing the highest number of active clients each day since the start date and is continuously appended until it is deleted or renamed.

Highest number of clients since midnight

The highest number of active clients since midnight and the date and time that this occurred.

Number of clients at last report interval

The number of active clients when the last count was performed and the date and time this occurred. The information is saved in a file named LicenseRecentHistory.txt in the \private directory. This file contains entries for the last 12 counts.

License-Use Count

You must click Apply to activate any changes that you make.

Enable

Enables clients to report to the Host On-Demand configuration server. This option is selected by default. To stop clients from reporting, clear the check box. (Clearing the box automatically de-activates all License-Use Count options.)

Log Client Check-ins

Triggers a log entry for every client report received by the configuration server. The log entry content enables you to track the activity of individual users.
Each entry records:

• appropriate timestamp (formatted for your locale)
• IP address of the client
• Host On-Demand userID, if applicable (Because users of the HTML model do not have individual Host On-Demand user IDs, they are assigned the generic label "HTML.")

Host On-Demand writes these entries to files every twenty-four hours at midnight. It names the files according to date and stores them in the private directory.

If you want the license files stored to another directory, you can specify that with a Java system property on the line that invokes java to start the NCServiceManager. For example, to write the log files to directory /usr/lpp/HOD/licensefiles on z/OS, you would add the following: -Dcom.ibm.hod.licensedirectory=/usr/lpp/HOD/licensefiles

Clients Report to

• Select This Host On-Demand Server if your configuration server resides on the same machine as your Web server.
• Select Other Host On-Demand Server if your configuration server resides on a different machine.

Host Name/IP Address

• If your configuration server resides on the same machine as your Web server, type its IP address.
• If your configuration server resides on a different machine from your Web server, type that machine's host name.

Report Interval

Select the amount of time for clients to wait between reports. Clients begin using the new interval once the previous interval has expired.

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