Licensing/User Count with Runtime app, Web and NLM (OpenInsight Specific)
At 17 OCT 1998 05:40:08PM Mark Woolley, Megamation Systems Inc. wrote:
I have a client site that has a 16 user runtime application running on a Novell server equipped with the Revelation NLM and this client also has a portion of the application web deployed for wider access.
The problem I'm having is with the user count. The NLM monitors the user count of the application engine as a user tries to login. If 2 or more runtime users are up and running the web deployment application (2 users) cannot be started. This is a problem because any restarts of the web server will require runtime users to exit until the active user count can accommodate a 2 user engine starting.
Conversly, my 16 user runtime engine is effectively limited to 15 because, from the NLM's perspective, the separately licensed web deployment engine will grab one of the user counts.
I can see that if I had 18 (16 runtime + 2 development) user engines or took the NLM out of the equation I would solve my problem but the first option is cost prohibitive (since I don't want to pay for development licenses for runtime users) and the second option is required by the WAN topology and performance.
Does anyone see a functional, affordable, licensed way out of this dilemma?
Mark
At 23 OCT 1998 05:36PM Brock Prusha wrote:
Call me a silly, willy, nilly if I'm wrong but it sounds like you
have two engines with the same serial number (one develop, one runtime). Check your serial numbers to see if that is true.
If so, then you need to change one of the serial numbers. This can
only be done by Rev Tech (to my knowledge). For example,
Engine 1=123456X
Engine 2=123456A
Same 'serial number' but a different suffix is used to disguish it
as different from the NLM's viewpoint.
Brock Prusha
DFM Systems, Inc
bprusha@mapcon.com