Active license count

[Richard Kreiss]

Top Post,

Jay,

As far as I know, licinfo only shows the total number of sessions available
not the number used.

Please keep in mind that that number is the sessions available and not the
number of users.  If one person opens 5 sessions on their desktop, that will
leave 10 sessions available for everyone else.

A session is registered when either *clerk or *report is run and not while
sitting on a menu.  If a *clerk session systems out to run a report, that is
still only one session.  This is different from the old user count on a *nix
system when that system call to run a report would take up another user.

Getting the count on a *nix system would most likely take a script which
counts the *clerk & *report processes running.  

Windows is harder as it is almost impossible to count the sessions on the
computers connected to a server.  If Terminal Server is being used, it is
easy.

I wonder what it would take to have licinfo show both the sessions being
used and the total available.  This has been asked for since the first
implementation of the license manager.


Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting






> -----Original Message-----
> From: Filepro-list [mailto:filepro-list-
> bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Jay Ashworth
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 6:36 PM
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> Subject: Active license count
> 
> So, this is the first time I've really dealt with the license manager,
cause we
> had a client who Had To Have 5.7, and it's unclear to me how to find out
how
> many runtime license seats *are believed to be in use*.
> 
> I know how to find out that's too many. :-)
> 
> But /appl/fp/licinfo doesn't seem to say "11 out of 15", it just says
"15".
> 
> ddir/ESC-? also only says "15".
> 
> Does something say "11 out of 15"?
> 
> I can count dclerk/dreport's, and I'm doing that already, but that doesn't
> actually solve my problem here.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> 
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