eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by CtxLicenseTest

The Citrix server supports two types of licenses- a product license and a connection license. The product license is a license to run a particular kind of Citrix Metaframe product on a server. A server farm must have a product license with one license count to run Citrix server software on each server in the server farm. Metaframe XP allocates product licenses from a pool of available licenses for a Metaframe XP server farm.

A connection license is a license for client connections to Metaframe XP servers. A server farm must have a connection license with one license count for each concurrent client connection to the Metaframe XP servers in the farm.

This test reports the usage of both the connection and product licenses by the Citrix server.

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation

Pool_licenses_in_use

All the Citrix servers in a server farm typically share a pool of licenses. This measure reports the number of licenses from the pool used by the current server.

Number

 

Assigned_licenses

Citrix allows a number of licenses from the pool to be assigned to a specific server. No other server can re-use these assigned licenses. This measure reports the number of licenses that are assigned to the current server.

Number

 

Assigned_licenses_in_use

This reports the number of assigned licenses in use.

Number

If the number of assigned licenses in use is much lower than the allocated number  of assigned licenses, the administrator may want to reduce the number of assigned licenses for this server.

Assigned_licenses_usage

This reports the % of assigned licenses in use.

Percent

Administrators may choose to be alerted when the assigned license usage reaches close to 100%, so that they may increase the number of assigned licenses if desired.