From version Controller 10.4.1 onwards admins can access the Licence Management Report, which runs licence usage reports within Controller Classic #
You can generate this report by:
- Clicking the ‘Maintain’ button
- Selecting ‘Rights’
- Select ‘Reports’
- Select ‘Generate’ as seen in the below screenshot:
Controller will generate a PDF report showing:
Active Administrator Users #
These contribute to the number of administrator licences consumed. If your Controller installation is on premise, you will need to have the correct number of administrator licences. For Controller on SaaS (Cloud), there is no licence cost variance between Admin and Standard users.
Active Standard Users #
These contribute to the number of standard or local user licences consumed.
Inactive Users #
These do not contribute towards the licences consumed.
In versions of Controller preceding 10.4.1, you can perform the licence check manually. You can do this by:
- Clicking the ‘Maintain’ button
- Selecting ‘Rights’
- Click on ‘Users’. At the base of the User screen, you will see the ‘No. of Named Users’.
Categorising which users are Administrators needs to be done manually by reviewing the Limitation settings and Security Group content
If a user has any of these options selected, they would be categorised as an Administrator and would be counted as consuming an administrator licence. This IBM article specifies the Menu options that belong to the Administrator role.
We would strongly recommend that your active licences consumed matches or falls below your contracted licence entitlement.
For On Premise licensing, we recommend careful attention to the quantity of users defined as Administrators, as it can be easy to exceed your licence entitlement.
