Monitoring license usage

Monitoring license usage over time can be useful to determine:

Average license usage to gauge whether users are taking advantage of the tools as much as expected.

Peak total license usage in order to forecast the need for more licenses.

Usage during different days of the week and hours of the day for troubleshooting performance issues or scheduling maintenance tasks.

To monitor license usage in real time with Performance Monitor:

Open Windows Performance Monitor.

In the navigation tree, expand Monitoring Tools, and then click Performance Monitor. The Performance Monitor graph appears with the default performance counters loaded.

In the graph pane toolbar, click Add button

. The Add Counters dialog box appears.

Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.

Performance counter options
Option	Description
Select counters from computer	If you are logged on to the Meridian Enterprise application server, accept the default of <Local computer>. If you are logged on to a different computer and want to monitor the licenses of a remote computer, click Browse and then select the computer that you want to monitor.
Available counters	Expand AutoManager Licenses and select Licenses in use.
Instances of selected object	To monitor all installed licenses, select <All instances>. To monitor only specific licenses, select them in the list.

Performance counter options

Option

Description

Select counters from computer

If you are logged on to the Meridian Enterprise application server, accept the default of <Local computer>. If you are logged on to a different computer and want to monitor the licenses of a remote computer, click Browse and then select the computer that you want to monitor.

Available counters

Expand AutoManager Licenses and select Licenses in use.

Instances of selected object

To monitor all installed licenses, select <All instances>.

To monitor only specific licenses, select them in the list.

Click Add >>. The selected counters appear in the Added counters list.

Click OK to save your changes. The performance graph refreshes to show the added counters.

See the online help in Performance Monitor for information about the more advanced features of Performance Monitor, including:

Changing how the graph is displayed

Saving sets of performance counters as data collectors that can be reused

Scheduling data collection on a periodic basis

Logging the data to a file that can be sent to BlueCielo Support or to a database for advanced reporting

Viewing historical performance reports

To enable license server activity logging:

Set the AuditLicenseRequests value described in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cyco\AutoManager Meridian\CurrentVersion\Server\Licensing.

To also log events when licenses are reclaimed by the same user, set the PostEventOnLicenseReclaim value as described in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cyco\AutoManager Meridian\CurrentVersion\Server\Licensing.

Use the Windows Event Viewer to view, filter, and export the license server activity from the Admin, Operational, and Debug channels of the BlueCielo-LicenseServer log in the Applications and Services Logs folder. To see the Debug channel, enable the Show Analytic and Debug Logs option be enabled on the View menu.

Related concepts

About licensing

Understanding Meridian licenses

Related tasks

Registering licenses

Entering authorization keys

Reserving licenses

Restricting licenses

Viewing current license usage

Reassigning named licenses