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Overview

The License Monitor is a tool in the CSI Customer Center, providing a live snapshot of your account's CSI License Usage. The gauges at the top of the page show a summary of the licenses in use versus the total number of licenses. The tables below provide detail which licenses are in use and by which user. The License Monitor can be found in the CSI Customer Center under Cloud Licensing Tools > License Monitor.

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Required Permissions

To view the License Monitor in the CSI Customer Center, a user must be assigned a role with the “Cloud License Monitor” permission selected. This permission is enabled by default on all template roles.

Terminating User Sessions

A Customer Account Administrator, and users with the given permission, can remotely terminate a Remote termination of a Cloud Sign-in license on a user’s machine through the CSI Customer Center from the Cloud Licensing Tools > is available in the License Monitor menu. Once terminated, the software will close on the user’s machine. A Checked-out licenses and non-Cloud Sign-in licenses cannot be remotely terminated.

The option to terminate a session is available as follows:

  • Any Cloud Sign-in license user can terminate their own session

if necessary, through the same menu option in the CSI Customer Center. The permission to terminate someone else session can be given through a User Role in the User Management Dashboard, which can be assigned to a user

  • (with “Cloud License Monitor” permission to view the License Monitor).

  • A Customer Account Administrator can terminate any session in their customer account.

  • A user with the User Role permission of “Terminate Sessions” can terminate any session in their customer account. A user can be assigned this role by their Customer Account Administrator in the CSI Customer Center

. Checked-out licenses cannot be remotely terminated.To terminate another users session, the user must be assigned a role that has the Terminate Sessions permission enabled
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Application Programming Interface (API)

Users can access the data that is show in the Cloud License Monitor via API such that they can programmatically query the license server from a third-party application. The data will be returned in JSON format.

If you are interested in setting up an API endpoint to access your License Monitor data via API, please email support@csiamerica.com.

Documentation (DRAFT)

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