When we are talking with customers about concurrent usage reports, we usually discuss one of these two scenarios:
- Tracking concurrent usage (CCU) to ensure Citrix XenApp license compliance
- Tracking concurrent usage to ensure our servers are not under/over utilized
In January 2010 we released a new version with Concurrent Usage Reports, let’s take a look at some of these features.
Concurrent Usage Reports are available under User Reports. Let’s take a look at Concurrent Users per Month. It shows the maximum number of users that were connected in each month. It also shows the average number of concurrent users.
Concurrent usage reports have the „drill-down“ ability. So let’s click on October and see what happens:
Concurrent Users per Day shows the maximum and average number of concurrent users in a day. On the chart above we can see a regular pattern: System is heavily utilized over weekdays and slightly utilized over the weekends. Let’s drill-down.
Concurrent Users per Day report shows system utilization in one day per hour. System is most heavily used from 11AM – 4PM, a normal day in a typical office.
By clicking on a desired hour you will see log of all sessions that occurred in this time period.
Conclusion
These new concurrent usage reports will allow you to gain valuable insights into how your server or server farm is being utilized. You can use these reports to make sure you are license compliant but also to check which servers are heavily utilized and in which periods.
Tags: ccu licensing, citrix, concurrent licenses, concurrent usage, concurrent users
