Configuring Subscription Model reports
What are Subscription Model reports
Subscription Model is a new way how YSoft SafeQ product is being sold.
Currently Y Soft is selling licenses for defined amount of devices. The costs are on customer's side before solution can be fully used.
We wanted to introduce a way to charge customer for exact number of devices customer is using and charge him on regular basis for devices used during month to spread the costs to longer period and reduce risk of buying solution for more devices than necessarily needed.
YSoft SafeQ 5 sends monthly reports to the YSoft HQ (or any defined email address). These reports include number of devices of various types (embedded, hardware, reporting, local, others) that are currently activated or have been deactivated in the span of last month and information about used license. Report are formatted as human readable XML file with digital signature.
Feature configuration
Follow these steps to configure sending of the monthly Subscription Model reports:
Log in into the YSoft SafeQ web interface as super administrator user.
Navigate to the System > System settings
Switch View to Expert options
Find option enableSendingOfSubscriptionModelReport and enable it.
Find option subscriptionModelEmailAddress and enter email address of the Subscription Model report receiver (you should get this address from your print solution provider).
(optional) Find option subscriptionReportBillingDay and change day of the month when the Subscription Model usage report should be generated.
(optional) Find option subscriptionReportDeviceData and select items which should be included in the generated usage reports.
Save configuration changes and restart services listed in the message that confirms successful save.
YSoft SafeQ is fully configured now and reports will be sent to the defined address at the start of each month few minutes after midnight. Report will be sent next day in case when CML server, mail server or internet connection would be down in that time.
Generated reports are stored in the SAFEQ_INSTALL_DIRECTORY/subscription-reports (for example c:\SafeQ5\subscription-reports) directory on CML server that generated them as digitally signed XML file. Internet Explorer or any other XML capable application can be used to view its content.
Each sent report is logged into the cml.log log file.
Resend the last usage report
To resend the email with the last generated usage report, follow these steps:
Log in into the YSoft SafeQ web interface as super administrator user.
Navigate to the System > System information
Click to Actions... > Resend the last usage report
Confirm the dialog
