Measures reported by O365LicnsUsgTest
When you buy an Office 365 subscription, you specify the number of licenses that you need, based on how many people you have in your organization. The validity and usage of these licenses need to be tracked closely, so that any potential license shortage / expiry can be proactively detected and prevented. This is because, without adequate licenses, your users will not be able to use the Office 365 product, or the applications/services they have subscribed for under that product. This is where the O365LicnsUsgTest test helps!
This test auto-discovers the Office 365 products you have subscribed to and groups the products on the basis of the license type - active or suspended. Product licenses that have been purchased and are available for assignment to users are grouped under ‘Active licenses’. Product licenses that are not available for assignment to users are grouped under ‘Suspended licenses’.
For each product under these categories, the test reports the count of licenses purchased, assigned to users, and yet to be assigned to users. On the basis of these usage values, the test also auto-computes and reports the overall license usage percentage, thus proactively alerting to any potential license shortage. The test also reports the count of licenses that will expire shortly, and thus gives you a heads up on impending license expiry.
Outputs of the test : One set of results for each Office 365 product that you have subscribed for.
First-level descriptor: License type - Active or Suspended
Second-level descriptor: Office 365 product
The measures made by this test are as follows:
| Measurement |
Description |
Measurement Unit |
Interpretation |
| Licensed_users |
Indicates the number of users who have been assigned this product's license. |
Number |
This indicates how many licenses of a product have been consumed. |
| Active_units |
Indicates the number of licenses of this product that have been purchased. |
Number |
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| Warning_units |
Indicates the number of licenses of this product that you have not renewed, and that will expire after the 30-day grace period. |
Number |
A high value for this measure is indicative of a potential license shortage, as many licenses may expire at the end of 30 days. You may want to renew the licenses that are nearing expiry to bring this count down and to ensure that sufficient licenses are always available. |
| Days_to_Expire |
Indicates the number of days within which this product's licenses will expire. |
Number |
Lower the value of this measure, sooner a product's licenses will expire.
If this value is very low, it implies that license will expire very soon. To continue using the product, you will have to renew the license.
Use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to know when exactly the license is expected to expire. |
| License_usage |
Indicates the percent usage of the licenses of this product. |
Percent |
A value close to 100% indicates that users of this product may soon run out of licenses. You may want to plan for purchasing additional licenses of this product in this case. |
| Trail |
Indicates whether/not this product's license is a trial license |
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If a product's license is a trial license, then the value of this measure will be Yes. If not, then this measure will report the value No.
The numeric values that correspond to these measure values are discussed in the table below:
| Measure Value |
Numeric Value |
| Yes |
1 |
| No |
0 |
Note:
By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate whether/not a license is a trial license. In the graph of this measure however, the same is indicated using the numeric equivalents only.
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