Group usage

To compare license usage across user groups, open the Group usage report. It supports inter-group comparison and organizational usage optimization, and shows license consumption by group for group-based resource planning.

The following image shows the Group usage report with its pie chart, details table, and filters.

Group usage report showing license consumption by group.

Visualizations

The report has the following visualizations:

• Usage Time in Hours by Group Name Pie Chart: Usage time in hours for each group. It shows these values:
  • Group Name
  • Usage Time in Hours
• Group Usage Details Table: Total usage time in hours and the percentage share of usage for each group. It shows these values:
  • Group Name
  • Usage Time in Hours
  • Group Usage %

Filters

Use the following filters to narrow the report:

• Date: A relative date filter. It defaults to Last 14 days, and the filter also shows the resolved range (for example, 2026/07/11 to 2026/07/24). Select another preset, or a custom start and end date, to change the reporting period.
• Vendor: Filter by vendor.
• Group Name: Filter by group name.
• Server Name: Filter by server name.
• License Type: Filter by license type.
• Feature Name: Filter by feature name.
• Software Name: Select a cataloged product from the SAM Catalog. The catalog normalizes publisher and product names, so filtering here groups license records that carry inconsistent raw license strings.
• Product Name: Filter by product name.
• User Name: Filter by username.
• Child Username: OpenLM aggregates usage under a parent user account, so User Name shows the combined total for that person. Select a child username here to drill into a single account merged under the parent. See User aliases for how OpenLM builds the mapping.
• Project Name: Filter by project name.
• Country: Filter by user country.
• Department: Filter by department.
• Additional Key: Filter by additional key.

Interpreting this report

Keep these points in mind when you read the report:

• Usage share by group: Use the percentage column to split license cost across groups. Version 26 documented group reporting for license chargeback (usage billing), and the percentage column here is that split, ready to apply to a license cost.
• Group membership: Usage by users without a group assignment does not appear in this report, not even as "unattributed". Reconcile the total hours here against License activity before invoicing anyone.
• Idle time: Hours here include in-session idle time, so a group with long idle sessions shows a larger share than its actual work justifies. The actual-versus-idle split per group is in License activity's group statistics.

Note

The pie chart is only informative if more than one group has usage. A tenant that puts everyone in the default OpenLM_Everyone group sees a single solid circle at 100%. Select a longer date range in the Date filter to include older groups before you read anything into the split.