What are our options for generating reports on licensing activity?

Your administrator can run the following types of reports using the Orion server’s administration UI or the equivalent administration API or command line tools:

• Operational reports:
  These are reports on the current state of the system – for example, what are the currently checked-out users in a license pool what are the license pools, which machine originated a specific checked-out license, etc.
• Historical reports:
  These are reports on the history of events pertaining to licenses – for example, when was a license pool created and by whom, what checkouts occurred over time for a given machine, etc. The reports are run against the Orion server’s audit trail, which tracks all licensing and other events occurring over time.
• Analytic reports:
  These are aggregate reports on the audit trail that are run to obtain analytic information. Orion supports 1 (count), 2 (count by entity / over time) and 3 (count by entity and over time) dimensional analytic reports.

When using the administration UI, you can view a report output on the screen or download it in one of several file formats including CSV.