Counting FilePro licenses

[Richard Kreiss]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Flavius Moldovan [mailto:flaviusm at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 9:57 PM
> To: Rkreiss at verizon.net]
> Cc: filePro List
> Subject: Re: Counting FilePro licenses
> 
> Richard,
> 
> Sorry, I forgot to mention that the FilePro is running on linux RedHat
4.4.
> 
> Following your advice, I will use the following to count the processes. Is
this
> enough?
> 
> 	ps  -ef|grep -E "dclerk|dreport"|grep -v grep|awk '{print
> $6}'|sort|uniq|wc -l

Not sure of the above.  I have not worked with *nix in almost 30 years.
Someone posted a way to check your processes.

> 
> Do you know what processes count agains a FilePro development license?

*cabe counts against your development license.  I don't believe that
dmoedef and dscreen count against the development license as I have opened
screens and reports while working on a processing table at a client's site
with a single user development license.

I have run dclerk and dreport and been able to open *cabe when I needed to
make changes in a processing table as I noted them with the debugger.

Please keep in mind I work in a Windows environment only.


Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting
rkreiss at gccconsulting.net
  



> 
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> Flavius.
> 
> On Mar 10, 2011, at 8:25 AM, Rkreiss at verizon.net] wrote:
> 
> > As far as I am aware there is no way, at present, to know the active
user
> count from within filepro.
> >
> > You haven't what OS  the system is running on.
> >
> > Since only *clerk & *report count against the user license, one could
count
> the number of process running these programs.  This would only be an
> approxmate count as one can run a report from within *clerk and this would
> only count as 1.
> >
> > Being at a menu does not take a user count.
> >
> > Richard Kreiss
> > From phone
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Flavius Moldovan <flaviusm at hotmail.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 10:42 PM
> > To: filePro List <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> > Subject: Counting FilePro licenses
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I need to manage the number of users that connect to FilePro (version
5.6)
> by closing existing idle FilePro users/sessions (I cannot get the company
to
> buy licenses for more users for now).
> > I wonder if anybody can help me with the following questions as well as
> other ideas:
> >
> > 1) Is there a way to query FilePro license manager to list how many
licenses
> are in use (runtime and development)?
> > 2) What FilePro processes/programs count against a runtime/development
> license?
> > 	e.g. Does the "runmenu" count against a license or only "dclerk"
etc.?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Flavius.
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