For the proper functionality, License Optimizer requires you to set up login and access groups.

Login Group

License Optimizer needs to know which group members it can grant access to the application and will be under optimization. This is usually the “confluence-users” providing application access by default. (You can use this default group or could also create a new one for this purpose.)

You should configure this group as “login group” for the License Optimzier app. This group can be read-only groups, since the optimizer doesn't make any changes to that group, it is only using it to determine if a user should have access or not. The size of this group can be bigger than your purchased license tier, since the app will rotate the access of these users based on their activity, thus optimizing your license.

Access Group

Confluence will treat users as licensed users and provide access to them when they are members of the configured groups that are assigned to the “Licensed users” Global Permission. We recommend creating a new group for this, since the selected group here will be manipulated in real-time by License Optimizer and it will remove from or add users to it. This group should be readable and writable.

After you created this special group, it should be added to the “Licensed users” Global Permission in Confluence administrator settings first with “can use” enabled. ⚠ We highly recommend to configure administrator group(s) as well so they can log in to the Application anytime regardless the License Optmizer.

Now you should configure this group as “access group” in the License Optimizer, so the app can provide them application access. In the access group picker, only groups that have been added to the global permissions menu will be listed.