Run FP license manager on netbook?

[Brian K. White]

On 3/24/2011 12:41 PM, Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
> I was looking for a method to create a good, easily recoverable, backup
> system for the FP License manager.
>
> I only have one server and I don't want to hold a second just in case.
> Making the Filepro files available to people is easy since I can make it
> available from any shared drive and point people's computers to any new
> fileserver is set up.  But the license manager requires that the server
> be set up with a particular user name.  So I figured I could setup the
> manager on a netbook running Linux and simply have it sitting on the
> side in case of a server meltdown of some sort.
>
> I'm not a Linux or License Manager expert so I wanted to know if others
> here, who know a lot more about this stuff than I do, think that this
> seems reasonable?

All this will do is reduce overall reliability and availability.

Separating the license manager from the server just increases the number 
of things (hardware and software and configuration) that must be working 
in order for the system as a whole to work.

If one day the server dies and the netbook is alive, you'll see a 
benefit. But the opposite is also true. The day the netbook dies, or 
gets a virus, you'll be down for no reason.

fp has at least tried to have a good license manager in that they allow 
you to choose from several schemes, where one scheme solves a problem 
caused by another scheme, but they all create a problem of some sort 
which is why I just refused to buy into it in the first place. None of 
my (customers) data or apps are at any artificially and unnecessarily 
added risk. The 5.6 features are not worth it.

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bkw