Counting FilePro licenses

[Brian K. White]

On 3/10/2011 9:57 PM, Flavius Moldovan wrote:
> 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

OK first thing, won't buy more licenses? My answer to that would be a 
simple "Ok well I guess you don't really care if it works or not 
then..." it automatically becomes not your problem at that point as far 
as I'm concerned. Basic respect. They'll happily waste hours of your 
time to save a few hundred bucks? Your time is worth more than that.

Just don't use the word "seats" when talking to customers and the number 
of required licenses becomes less of an issue. It's "instances", and 
they need however many they need, if it's average 5 instances per user 
plus 10 more for server-side reporting or web site activity then so be 
it. All depends on usage.

But my real purpose was a fine, perhaps nitpicky point but if you're 
going to use awk anyways, you don't need ANY of the other processes in 
that pipe. Just the single awk can do the entire job in one process. 
Although it's admittedly a little arcane in the scrunched up minimal 
form I'm going to use for posting.

This will tell you the total number of rclerk/dclerk/rreport/dreport 
running at the moment.

ps -eopid,comm |awk '/(r|d)(clerk|report)/{n++}END{print n}'

That simple rule is correct for 5.0.13 and below.

But that doesn't account for the fact that in 5.6, processes spawned by 
other processes don't count extra. I'm not sure how true that is or if 
the real rule used inside fp is more complicated or if it's possibly 
configurable or even variable.

I don't use 5.6 for several reasons so I can't test how accurately this 
matches fp's own counting rules, but here is a version of above that 
doesn't count a clerk/report process if it was started by any other 
clerk or report process:

ps -eopid,ppid,comm |awk '/(r|d)(clerk|report)/{p[$1]=$2;t++}END{for(x 
in p)for(y in p)if(p[x]==y){delete p[x];t--};print t
}'

This one just adds a little verbosity to show all the potential 
processes under consideration followed by the discards. Pipe that into 
less to verify the PID/PPID relationship of the discards yourself before 
trusting the non-verbose one.

ps -eopid,ppid,comm |awk '/(r|d)(clerk|report)/{p[$1]=$2;t++;print 
$0}END{print "----";print "total",t;for(x in p)for(y in
p)if(p[x]==y){print "discarding",x;delete p[x];t--};print "remander",t}' 
|less


Each of these are a single long line.

-- 
bkw