As Biplap mentions, you need to use login tracking data but the currentcount attribute itself is worthless when it comes to licensing. For one, there are multiple types of licenses (Authorized, Express, and/or Anywhere, plus all the industry solutions/add-ons on top of that) which you can't determine just from the number of users. So you need to know what license someone needs before determining how many of those you had logged in during a given time.
In addition, IBM licensing is based on the most concurrent users logged in during a minute window over a 24 hour period. That means if user a logs out at 10:00:01 and user two logs in at 10:00:55, both users have to be counted in the number of users during that 1 minute window. If that 1 minute window was the largest over the 24 hour period, then that means you would need 1 more license than currentcount would possibly report. And that's assuming you trust the accuracy of currentcount, which I wouldn't. It's OK to get a high level idea of how many users are in a system for making decisions related to system load, but not something I would depend on for licensing.
It's pretty complex to analyze these minute windows to determine how many of a given type are logged in and I can't share what we have utilized unfortunately. Similar to Biplap, my experiences with License Usage Monitor haven't been great but I haven't tested it thoroughly on 7.6.1.1/7.6.1.2, and they address many bugs in each release. It's also worth noting, that when it comes to an audit, what the IBM tooling states is not used to validate compliance. IBM utilizes third party auditors (like all audits have to be to ensure independent review) that determine the license counts utilizing their own calculations. You can potentially try and dispute flaws in their calculation, and the auditors can ask IBM questions, but being in compliance in License Usage Monitor (or any third party tooling for that matter) isn't a guarantee that you'd be found in compliance in an audit.
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Steven Shull
Projetech
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-08-2020 04:45
From: Alok Pattnaik
Subject: Maximo License Utilization
Dear Experts,
How can we calculate Maximo Concurrent user license utilization ? Does current count from login tracking table give the correct value ?
Thanks
Alok
#Administration
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Alok Pattnaik
Praxis Solutions
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