CPU Licenses

When you purchase licenses in the CPU format, the system monitors the number of CPUs being used by Intelligence Server in your implementation and compares it to the number of licenses that you have. You cannot assign privileges related to certain licenses if the system detects that more CPUs are being used than are licensed. For example, this could happen if you have MicroStrategy Web installed on two dual-processor machines (four CPUs) and you have a license for only two CPUs.

To fix this problem, you can either use License Manager to reduce the number of CPUs being used on a given machine so it matches the number of licenses you have, or you can obtain additional licenses from MicroStrategy. To use License Manager to determine the number of CPUs licensed and, if necessary, to change the number of CPUs being used, see Using License Manager.

The ability to deploy Intelligence Server or MicroStrategy Web on specific, selected CPUs (a subset of the total number of physical CPUs) on a given machine is called CPU affinity. For details on setting up CPU affinity, see Update CPU Affinity.

Verifying CPU Licenses

To verify your CPU licenses, Intelligence Server scans the network to count the number of CPUs in use by Intelligence Servers. If the number of CPU licenses has been exceeded, an error message is displayed when a user logs in to a MicroStrategy product. Contact your MicroStrategy account executive to increase your number of CPU licenses. For detailed information on the effects of being out of compliance with your licenses, see Effects of Being Out of Compliance with Your Licenses.

For steps to manually verify your CPU licenses using License Manager, see Audit Your System for the Proper Licenses.