eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by AzrADLcnsTest

Microsoft Online business services, such as Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Azure, require Azure AD for sign-in activities and to help with identity protection. If you subscribe to any Microsoft Online business service, you automatically get Azure AD with access to all the free features.

To enhance your Azure AD implementation, you can also add paid capabilities by upgrading to Azure Active Directory Premium P1 or Premium P2 licenses. Azure AD paid licenses are built on top of your existing free directory.

The free and paid licenses are briefly discussed below:

  • Azure Active Directory Free: Provides user and group management, on-premises directory synchronization, basic reports, self-service password change for cloud users, and single sign-on across Azure, Microsoft 365, and many popular SaaS apps.

  • Azure Active Directory Premium P1: In addition to the Free features, P1 also lets your hybrid users access both on-premises and cloud resources. It also supports advanced administration, such as dynamic groups, self-service group management, Microsoft Identity Manager, and cloud write-back capabilities, which allow self-service password reset for your on-premises users.

  • Azure Active Directory Premium P1: In addition to the Free features, P1 also lets your hybrid users access both on-premises and cloud resources. It also supports advanced administration, such as dynamic groups, self-service group management, Microsoft Identity Manager, and cloud write-back capabilities, which allow self-service password reset for your on-premises users.

  • “Pay as you go” feature licenses: You can also get additional feature licenses, such as Azure Active Directory Business-to-Customer (B2C). B2C can help you provide identity and access management solutions for your customer-facing apps.

Since you need licenses to access your critical Azure services, it is important to track license usage, make sure that you have enough, and plan license additions ahead. Likewise, you should also know for how long your licenses will remain valid, so you can renew licenses before expiry, and ensure business continuity. This is where the AzrADLcnsTest helps!

This test tracks the usage of each type of license, and alerts you to the impending shortage or expiry of licenses. These early warnings enable administrators to efficiently plan the purchase / renewal of licenses, so that business does not suffer.

Outputs of the test: One set of results for every type of AD license

Descriptor: AD License

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Total_licenses Indicates the total number of licenses of this type that were purchased. Number

Use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to know which users hold the licenses.
Assigned_licensess Indicates the number of licenses of this type that have been assigned to users. Number

If the value of this measure is very close to that of the Total licenses measure for any license type, it means that licenses of that type are running out of stock. New users may hence not be assigned these licenses. To avoid this, you may want to purchase additional licenses of that type.
Available_licenses Indicates the number of licenses that are available for assignment. Number

This includes the count of expiring licenses as well.
Expiring_licenses Indicates the number of licenses of this type that are nearing expiry. Number

Ideally, the value of this measure should be 0.