License Counting

[Kenneth Brody]

On 11/30/2015 12:52 PM, Chris Rendall via Filepro-list wrote:
> 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.

The license is acquired before anything is displayed on the screen, long 
before you get to updating a record.

> 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.

Simply running a *clerk/*report process uses a license.

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

I believe this is pre-license manager, correct?  Then using "ps" might be 
the best way to count *clerk/*report processes.  (Of course, if you were to 
have, for example, 10 dclerks sitting at the "too many users" error screen, 
your script would see 10 more processes than were actually being used.)

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Kenneth Brody