Enterprise license management using License Statistics

The large companies who use License Statistics generally have hundreds of licenses. In some cases, we've had the opportunity to work with companies who have a few thousand licenses, which is quite a significant number of licenses to monitor.

However, we've recently been working with a large organization whose license monitoring requirements are a magnitude greater than any we have encountered thus far. This particular organization has up to about 12,000 CITRIX licenses serving many thousands of users daily.

As this customer pointed out, they had a hard time finding vendors capable of meeting their requirements. Most vendors would never be able to support their requirements, because their monitoring techniques would be incapable of handling the large scale of the company's setup, which involves a great number of machines. With so many users and licenses, their enterprise environment jumps to a new level, where speed of software and optimization of algorithms become crucial. License Statistics was able to meet the challenge.

Working with this organization, we optimized License Statistics to be capable of monitoring this type of large-scale enterprise environment. With only a few days of work, we managed to cut down graph generation time by up to a factor of 10. Currently, creating the graphs for this site takes only about 2 minutes.

We've been quite satisfied with the results so far. Due to License Statistics straightforward interface, it didn't take long to make the adjustments needed to accommodate this customer's requirements.





The above figure shows a set of CITRIX licenses we've captured together with this particular customer. It shows more than 8000 licenses being used at once. An interesting observation is that their license utilization is quite good, as about 8000 licenses are used a significant share of the time.