# Dashboard

See the following sections for an explanation about items on the Dashboard page:

| • | View and Manage Alerts

| • | View License Information

| • | View Hosts

| • | View Fulfillments

| • | Change your Password

| • | Change the Locale

View and Manage Alerts

This section lists all of the Alerts that are sent to the Dashboard. You configure alerts in the Administration section of the license manager interface. Alerts are grouped into two types:

| • | Critical: Certain specific actions are classified as critical to the license server and generate Critical type Alerts.

| • | Important: Certain specific actions are classified as important to the license server and generate Important type Alerts.

If you click on an item in the Alert section, you will see details about that alert. You can also clear the message by clicking the X icon next to the alert item. Alerts are not cleared automatically when the condition changes. You must manually clear the alert to remove it from this list.

Alerts related to Activatable licenses are tested and triggered at five-minute intervals. Alerts related to Concurrent licenses are tested and triggered at one-minute intervals. The Vendor Daemon Down alert is triggered immediately. Any triggered alert will only be displayed on the Dashboard page when that page is reloaded or refreshed.

View License Information

In general, licenses can be either Activatable or Concurrent. License files can contain only concurrent license rights while trusted storage can contain either, plus a third type called Hybrid.

Concurrent licenses are license rights that can be served to FlexEnabled applications within a network. FlexEnabled applications can use no more than the total number of entitled licenses at any one time. The license server keeps track of the number of licenses that are checked out and issues only the allowed quantity.

Activatable licenses are license rights held in trusted storage that can be activated to another system (for example, a FlexEnabled client). Unlike concurrent licenses, after an activatable license is activated, the client need not return the license to the manager when it is not being used.

Hybrid licenses can be used as concurrent licenses, served to an application within the local network. They can also be detached from the server and activated in the client’s trusted storage while the client is disconnected from the network. Unlike a strictly activatable license, the hybrid license can be returned to the manager when the client reconnects to the network and to the license manager.

Dashboard information about Activatable licenses is updated at ten-minute intervals; information about Concurrent licenses is available immediately. The Dashboard display of information is updated whenever the browser page is reloaded or refreshed.

| 1. | Select a vendor daemon: At the top of the Licenses section is a display of the currently running vendor daemon or daemons. If there is only one vendor daemon, a simple text line will identify it. If you have more than one vendor daemon running, you will see a dropdown list and a Select button. First choose the vendor daemon from the dropdown list, then click the Select button to refresh the display for the chosen vendor daemon.

| 2. | Click one of the icons to display the License Summary for that license type for the chosen vendor daemon:

| • | Activatable: Shows information about both hybrid and purely activatable licenses.

| • | Concurrent: Shows information about concurrent licenses.

| 3. | The license summary page, for either Activatable or Concurrent licenses, displays a licenses that have been loaded by the vendor daemons configured on the license server. Click an entry in the license summary to toggle the display of details about that entry including:

| • | Feature or Product: On the Activatable license summary, this column displays the product name. Activatable license fulfillment records may contain licenses for sets of multiple features under a single product name.

| • | On the Concurrent license summary, this column displays the feature name.

| • | Activation ID: (Activatable license summary only) This column displays the ENTITLEMENT ID of the product that is Activatable.

| • | Version: This column displays the product version (on the Activatable license summary) or the version of the feature defined by the license rights (on the Concurrent license summary). A single feature can have multiple versions available. A multiple-feature group will have its own version that is separate from the versions of the individual features.

| • | Detached (Total): (Activatable license summary only) This column shows two values. The first represents the total number of both Hybrid and purely Activatable licenses currently detached from trusted storage. The second value is the total number of Hybrid and purely Activatable licenses that have been issued to the server’s trusted storage. For example, 10(15) indicates that 10 licenses have been detached from the server’s trusted storage and activated elsewhere. The value 15 is the total number of licenses initially loaded into the server’s trusted storage.

| • | In Use (Available): (Concurrent license summary only) This column shows the total quantity of licenses checked out and the total quantity issued for each feature. For example, the value 4(5) indicates that there are 4 licenses checked out from the total quantity of 5 that have been issued in the license rights.

| • | Overdraft: (Activatable license summary only) This column shows the number of overdraft licenses for each product. An overdraft license is a full license in all functional aspects, but provides a special status that may be used by the publisher in situations such as allowing additional users access to the product before the higher licensing level has been paid for.

| • | Expiration: This column displays the expiration date value defined by the license rights for the product or feature. If there are multiple FEATURE or INCREMENT lines in the license file with the same feature name and different expiration dates, the value displayed in the Dashboard comes from the first feature definition line found for that feature name. The license server sorts features in memory using the sort order rules defined by the software publisher.

View Hosts

In the license summary grid, each product may have a Hosts link. This link displays a list of FlexEnabled client host names that have activated or checked out a license. If the In Use value is zero (0), this link does not appear.

View Fulfillments

Activatable licenses have a Fulfillments link after the Expiration information. Click this to display a list of features in the fulfillment records in the trusted storage on the license server. The list display includes an Export Data button. Click this to format the fulfillment data similarly to the data in a license file.

Change your Password

Users who have provided a login can change their password using the Change Password hyperlink. In the Change Password dialog, enter the old password and the new password, and then click Save.

Note • The Change Password link is not available when under either of these conditions:

| • | The Dashboard access is not password-protected.

| • | The Dashboard access is password-protected, but you have logged on as a domain user or administrator.

Change the Locale

If the license server management interface is configured to support multiple locales, then users can change the locale using the Change Locale hyperlink. In the Change Locale dialog, choose a locale from the drop-down list, and then click Save. The drop-down list displays only the locales that are configured. See User Interface in the Server Configuration section.

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