Group usage
A report that displays license usage statistics grouped by user groups. It supports inter-group comparison and organizational usage optimization.
Group Usage
License consumption categorized by group for group-based resource planning.
Visualizations
- Usage Time in Hours by Group Name Pie Chart: It shows the usage time in hours by different groups.
Values displayed:
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Group Name
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Usage Time in Hours
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Group Usage Details Table: It shows the total usage time in hours and the percentage share of usage for each group.
Values displayed:
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Group Name
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Usage Time in Hours
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Group Usage %
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Filters:
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Date: A relative date filter. It defaults to Last 14 days and prints the resolved range underneath (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: Users can select any vendor from this filter.
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Group Name: Users can select any group name from this filter.
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Server Name: Users can select any server name from this filter.
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License Type: Users can select any license type from this filter.
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Feature Name: Users can select any feature name from this filter.
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Software Name: Select a catalogued product from the SAM Catalog. The catalog normalizes publisher and product names, so filtering here groups license records that carry inconsistent raw license strings.
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Product Name: Users can select any product name from this filter.
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User Name: Users can select any username from this filter.
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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.
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Project Name: Users can select any project name from this filter.
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Country: Users can select any user country from this filter.
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Department: Users can select any department from this filter.
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Additional Key: Users can select any additional key from this filter.
Interpreting this report
- Usage share by group is the chargeback ratio - Version 25 documented group reporting precisely for license charge-back (usage billing), and the percentage column here is that split, ready to apply to a license cost.
- Shares are only as good as group membership. Usage by users without a group assignment vanishes from this report rather than appearing as "unattributed" - reconcile the total hours here against License activity before invoicing anyone.
- Hours here include in-session idle time; a group with long-running idle sessions buys a larger share than its actual work justifies. The actual-versus-idle split per group is in License activity's group statistics.
The pie chart is only informative once more than 1 group has usage. A tenant that puts everyone
in the default OpenLM_Everyone group sees a single solid circle at 100%. Widen the Date
filter to pull in older groups before reading anything into the split.