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Nathaneil0227_2
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Sep 30, 2016

APM Licensing

Hi All/DC Experts,   Just wanted to know what is the difference of CCU and ACCESS Sessions.   I am really confused with the licensing of APM.   Thanks..  
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  • Lucas_Thompson_'s avatar
    Lucas_Thompson_
    Sep 30, 2016

    If you have 2 assigned Portal resources to 1 user, 1 CCU will be consumed.

     

    If any part of that operations guide is confusing, please let us know what part and we'll work to get it clarified. We do updates to the Ops Guide about every quarter as it's not "official documentation tied to a specific release", so we have more leeway in updates.

     

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Nath
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Sep 30, 2016

Please disregard question below, I understand how licensing works but it doesn't make sense to me why is that CCU is lower than User Session even we know that:

 

1user = 1 session license but this 1 user can consume 2 or more CCU due to resources like (Portal,Webtoplink, Network Access, AppTunnel etc.)

 

https://support.f5.com/content/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_apm/manuals/product/f5-apm-operations-guide/_jcr_content/pdfAttach/download/file.res/f5-apm-operations-guide.pdf

 

My question is how CCU licensing works is it:

 

1 CCU per Portal Access means (1 for portal1.com + 1 for portal2.com ) or 1 for all (portal1.com and portal2.com)?