License Counting

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at spamcop.net
Mon Nov 30 11:51:02 PST 2015


On 11/30/2015 2:47 PM, Nancy Palmquist via Filepro-list wrote:
> On 11/30/2015 12:58 PM, Kenneth Brody via Filepro-list wrote:
>> On 11/30/2015 12:52 PM, Chris Rendall via Filepro-list wrote:
[...]
>>> 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.)
>>
> Using "ps" to get a process count will tell you very little if starting
> *clerk or *report from a SYSTEM command does not count against the license.

As noted above, he's on the decade-old 5.0.14 version, which is 
pre-license-manager.  Those versions counted SYSTEM to *clerk/*report as 
another license use.

[...]

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Kenneth Brody


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