Denial Folding

Older vendor daemons would sometimes create many denial events in response to a single request, meaning that the report log included far more denial events than users actually experienced. If FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications were to process all of these denial events, reports that included a count of denials would show a far higher number of denials than had occurred. To avoid this higher-than-actual denial reporting, data aggregation (as well as Classic FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications reporting) will fold these denial events.

In denial folding, all denial events for the same user for the same feature that occur within a window of time (10 seconds by default) are replaced with a single ultimate denial event, or are “thrown away” if the license is eventually granted in a usage event prior to the end of the time window. You can configure the duration of the time window using the “Aggregation denial folding interval” setting, described in the next section.