Administration

Monitoring Product License Usage
In View Administrator, you can monitor the active users who are concurrently connected to View. The
Product Licensing and Usage page displays the current and highest historical usage numbers. You can
use these numbers to keep track of your product license usage. You can also reset the historical usage
data and start over with the current data.
View provides two licensing usage models, one for named users and one for concurrent users. View
counts the named users and concurrent users in your environment, regardless of your product license
edition or usage model agreement.
For named users, View counts the number of unique users that have accessed the View environment. If a
named user runs multiple single-user desktops, RDS desktops, and remote applications, the user is
counted once.
For named users, the Current column on the Product Licensing and Usage page displays the number
of users since your View deployment was first configured or since you last reset the Named Users
Count. The Highest column is not applicable to named users.
For concurrent users, View counts single-user desktop connections per session. If a concurrent user runs
multiple single-user desktops, each connected desktop session is counted separately.
For concurrent users, RDS desktop and application connections are counted per user. If a concurrent
user runs multiple RDS desktop sessions and applications, the user is counted only once, even if different
RDS desktops or applications are hosted on different RDS hosts. If a concurrent user runs a single-user
desktop and additional RDS desktops and applications, the user is counted only once.
For concurrent users, the Highest column on the Product Licensing and Usage page displays the
highest number of concurrent desktop sessions and RDS desktop and application users since your View
deployment was first configured or since you last reset the Highest Count.
Reset Product License Usage Data
In View Administrator, you can reset the historical product usage data and start over with the current data.
An administrator with the Manage Global Configuration and Policies privilege can select the Reset
Highest Count and Reset Named Users Count settings. To restrict access to these settings, give this
privilege to designated administrators only.
Prerequisites
Familiarize yourself with product license usage. See Monitoring Product License Usage.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, select View Configuration > Product Licensing and Usage.
2 (Optional) In the Usage pane, select Reset Highest Count.
The highest historical number of concurrent connections is reset to the current number.
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