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Overages are simply the cumulative sum of license checkouts that have breached the total number of available Application Points. Critically, a monthly overage of "500" application points doesn't mean 500 more AppPoints are needed.
Assuming that a customer has 100 AppPoints, and is using all 100 of them. Then a user log in with a limited concurrent user license type, with enforcement off. This takes the licensing usage to 105 AppPoints, an overage of 5. After the user logs out, then logs back in again. This takes the licensing usage back to 105 AppPoints, but now the cumulative overage is 5+5 = 10 in total.
This can continue indefinitely, so while no more than 105 AppPoints have been spent, the overage could hit 500 (if that same user has logged out/in 100 times).
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17 August 2023
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