Run FP license manager on netbook?

[Boaz Bezborodko]

> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:19:51 -0400
> From: "Brian K. White"<brian at aljex.com>
> Subject: Re: Run FP license manager on netbook?
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> 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.
>
In this case I was thinking of setting up the netbook as the backup 
unit.  If my server fails then I can move backup files onto just about 
any other machine (Windows or Linux/Samba), but I have to have a very 
specific setup for the License Manager.  So the netbook gets turned on 
and plugged in as the backup.

I still have only one source of failure (the current server), but I have 
two options for the License manager.  I can restore a new machine set up 
as the old machine together with the license manager or I can run the 
license manager from the backup netbook while serving the files from 
just about anything.