MicroStrategy ONE

Audit Your System for the Proper Licenses

License Manager counts the number of licenses based on the number of users with at least one privilege for a given product. The Administrator user that is created by default with the repository is not considered in the count.

To audit your system, perform the procedure below on each server machine in your system.

In rare cases, an audit can fail if your metadata is too large for the Java Virtual Machine heap size. For steps to modify the Java Virtual Machine heap size in your system registry settings, see MicroStrategy Tech Notes TN6446 and TN30885.

If you are using License Manager on the physical machine on which Intelligence Server is installed, and a three-tier project source does not exist on that machine, you cannot log in to the server. To audit your licenses in this case, you must first create a three-tier project source pointing to the Intelligence Server. You can use either MicroStrategy Configuration Wizard or Developer's Project Source Manager to create this project source.

To Audit Your MicroStrategy Licenses

  1. Open MicroStrategy License Manager. For instructions, see Using License Manager.

    In command line mode, the steps to audit licenses vary from those below. Refer to the License Manager command line prompts to guide you through the steps to audit licenses.

  2. On the Audit tab, expand the Intelligence Server folder.
  3. Double-click a project source name (PSN).
  4. Type your MicroStrategy login and password for the selected Intelligence Server and click Connect. If you are in compliance, a message appears notifying you that you are in compliance with your software license agreement. Click OK.
  5. Select the Everyone group and click Audit. A folder tree of the assigned licenses is listed in the Number of licenses pane.
  6. Users with no product-based privileges are listed under Users without license association.
  7. Count the number of licenses per product for enabled users. Disabled users do not count against the licensed user total, and should not be counted in your audit.
  8. Click Print.
  9. For detailed information, click Report to create and view XML, HTML, and CSV reports. You can also have the report display all privileges for each user based on the license type. To do this, select the Show User Privileges in Report check box.
  10. Total the number of users with each license across all machines.