Thanks, Dave. I might take your idea of monitoring the Server Statistics form on floating usage one day -
David > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Shellman, David > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 2:19 PM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: Re: License analysis utitily to run locally > > The free RRR version is online. You purchase you can run locally. > > Since it's tied to custom form it may not be that useful to you. It's two > filters > (one for modify and one for submit) that updates a record in a collector form. > It generates a count of the number of times an individual submits or modifies > a record in various forms during an hour. The count is not as important as > they actually performed an action that requires a license within an hour. My > perl script looks at how often a person used a license within a given time > period (normal business hours) over a set time period. > > Since we are a global company, our highest usage of floating licenses is > between 9:00 AM and 11:00 AM. (This data can be found in the Server > Statistics form when enabled). > > So the perl script counts the number of times that an individual > creates/modifies at least one record within a given hour from 9:00 AM up to > 11:00 AM, Monday through Friday, for say the last 8 weeks. (Our greatest > impact on licenses is from the US so we exclude US holidays from the > analysis.) Since we are looking at a 2 hour block each day, 5 days a week, > over 8 weeks, the perl script can actually convert this to a percentage of > time, > the person has needed a license to do their job within that time period. The > script also retrieves if the person has a float or a fixed license. > > We have a filter added to the Server Statistics form that triggers based on > 'Floating Write Lic Connections' greater than a certain value to let us know > when we are getting tight on licenses. When that happens we will run the > script to figure out how to rebalance fixed/floating licenses. > > Misi's product uses a slightly different approach. His takes it up a notch > and > looks at login and license release. His routine can also give you a suggested > fixed/floating count and with the paid version who should have a fixed vs a > floating. > > Dave > > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
