eG Monitoring  

Measures reported by TermLicGraceTest

Microsoft RDS server enables users to access desktops and applications from various types of client applications and devices. To provide continuous access to desktops/applications to users, the target RDS server should possess a valid license offered from a Microsoft RDS License server. By default, Microsoft offers grace period license for 120- days during which the RDS server can offer desktops/applications to users without the license server. However, if you do not get a valid license before the grace period expires, the RDS server will not be able to offer services to users after the given period. To avoid such inconveniences, you should monitor the RDS server during license grace period and initiate actions to get valid license before the grace period expires. This can be easily done using the TermLicGraceTest.

This test monitors the target RDS server that uses grace period license, and reports the number of days left in the license grace period. This way, administrators are proactively alerted to buy valid licenses before the grace period ends so as to ensure the users continuous access to the desktops and applications. In addition, this test also reveals whether/not the RDS server allows new user connections and a single session per user.

Note:

This test reports metrics only when the target RDS server uses grace period licenses.

Outputs of the test : One set of results for the target RDS server being monitored

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Grace_period_left Indicates the number of days left in the license grace period. Days A low value for this measure indicates that license is about to expire soon. In such cases, you need to get the proper license before the services offered by the RDS server become inaccessible

The detailed diagnosis of this measure reveals the name of target RDS server and the license servers to which the RDS server is associated with.

Is_allow_ts_connections Indicates whether/not a new RDS connection is allowed.   These measure values and their corresponding numeric values are listed in the table below:

Measure value Numeric value
Yes 1
No 0

Note:

By default, this measure reports the Measure values to indicate whether the RDS server allows new connection or not. The graph of this measure however is represented using the numeric equivalents - 0 or 1.
Is_single_sessions Indicates whether/not the RDS server allows a single session per user.   These measure values and their corresponding numeric values are listed in the table below:

Measure value Numeric value
Yes 1
No 0

Note:

By default, this measure reports the Measure values to indicate whether/not a single session per user is allowed during the grace period. The graph of this measure however is represented using the numeric equivalents - 0 or 1.