License Counting

[Chris Rendall]

Does filePro considered a license used when updating a record in *clerk?  IIRC, the license isn't counted as used until a record is being updated.  If the user is just viewing a record at the "Enter Selection >" prompt I didn't think that used a license.

I was trying to come up with a way to find out how many licenses we are currently using.  I wrote a simple Linux script to count up the number of *clerk and *report processes, but if the license doesn't count when just viewing, my script won't be accurate.  

Is there a way in 5.0.14 to get an accurate license count used?

--- Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Brody via Filepro-list [mailto:filepro-list at lists.celestial.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2015 12:23 PM
To: Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com>; filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
Subject: Re: License Counting

On 11/24/2015 2:53 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 09:49:10PM -0500, Kenneth Brody via Filepro-list thus spoke:
>> On 11/23/2015 12:41 PM, Chris Rendall via Filepro-list wrote:
>>> We are currently using filePro 5.0.14 with a 64 user license.
>>>
>>> If I remember correctly, we should be able to have 64 copies of 
>>> rclerk open, and 64 copies of rreport open at the same time.  Am I 
>>> correct?  Or is filePro counting up the total amount of rrclerk and 
>>> rreport processes running and we can only run a total of 64 rclerk/rreport processes?
>>
>> You can have 64 *clerk/*report sessions, combined.  Note, however, 
>> that multiple programs in one session only uses one license.  (For 
>> example a SYSTEM "dreport" from dclerk does not take a second
>> license.)
>
> Bzzzzt.  Read the OP again.  He said 5.0.14.  SYSTEM not eating 
> licenses gratuitously was a 5.6-ism, as I recall.

Yes, I see he's still on the ancient 5.0.14 version.  The SYSTEM not eating licenses was a license manager feature, which I believe was 5.0.15?  Given that that was more than a decade ago, I didn't think to adjust my answer for those without it.

--
Kenneth Brody
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