MicroStrategy ONE

Named User Licenses

In a Named User licensing scheme, the privileges given to users and groups determine what licenses are assigned to users and groups. Intelligence Server monitors the number of users in your MicroStrategy system with each privilege, and compares that to the number of available licenses.

For example, the Web Use Filter Editor privilege is a Web Professional privilege. If you assign this privilege to User1, then Intelligence Server grants a Web Professional license to User1. If you only have one Web Professional license in your system and you assign any Web Professional privilege, for example Web Edit Drilling And Links, to User2, Intelligence Server displays an error message when any user attempts to log in to MicroStrategy Web.

The Administrator user that is created with the repository is not considered in the licensed user count.

To fix this problem, you can either change the user privileges to match the number of licenses you have, or you can obtain additional licenses from MicroStrategy. License Manager can determine which users are causing the metadata to exceed your licenses and which privileges for those users are causing each user to be classified as a particular license type (see Using License Manager).

For more information about the privileges associated with each license type, see the List of Privileges section. Each privilege group has an introduction indicating any license that the privileges in that group are associated with. Every user must be associated with a base server module license type, either the "Server-Reporter" or "Server-Intelligence" license. For more information about the license types, see Privileges by License Type.

  • The Client - Reporter and Client - Web licenses are linked together in a hierarchy that allows users to inherit specific privilege sets. The hierarchy is set up such that the Client - Reporter license is a subset of the Client - Web license. This means that if you have a Client - Web license, in addition to the privilege set that comes with that license, you will automatically inherit the privileges that come with the Client - Reporter license.
  • The Server - Intelligence and Server - Reporter licenses are organized into a hierarchy that allows users to inherit certain privileges too. In this hierarchy, the Server - Reporter license is a subset of the Server - Intelligence license. This means that if you have the Server - Intelligence license, in addition to that license's privilege set, you will have access to the privilege set available in the Server - Reporter license. However, this does not prevent you from using the privilege set of either license individually.

Verifying Named User licenses

To verify your Named User licenses, Intelligence Server scans the metadata repository daily for the number of users fitting each Named User license type. If the number of licenses for a given type 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 Named User 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 Named User licenses using License Manager, see Audit Your System for the Proper Licenses. You can configure the time of day that Intelligence Server verifies your Named User licenses.

To Configure the Time When Named User Licenses are Verified

  1. In Developer, right-click a project source and select Configure MicroStrategy Intelligence Server.
  2. Expand the Server category, and select Advanced.
  3. Specify the time in the Time to run license check (24 hr format) field.
  4. Click OK.