We need to manage 30 000 professional user licenses globally. Every year, we look at users who have actively used Qlik Sense. Our licensing model is subscription based (QSoW), hence we want to deallocate licenses for the users who have not used Qlik Sense.
A missing piece is about the QS Desktop users: we have no mean to tell if someone got a license assigned with no server sessions associated because they have browsed the hub without opening an app, or because they actively used QS Desktop.
QS Support team told us we can find QS Desktop activity from the broker service logs with the following API call: GET /api/v1/users/me
This however does not tell us who was the user.
Ideally, we would have a log file to tell us who did connect to the server from QS Desktop and leased a license.
Example from the broker service logs:
<IPV6 address> - - [01/Dec/2020:06:33:15 +0000] "GET /api/v1/users/me HTTP/1.1" 404 154 "https://qs-server/hub/?qlikTicket=xfyrRSTpmTRDRzoF" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML
