Good afternoon!
Firstly, I hope that I did not miss something extremely obvious in the install guide, however; I cannot seem to figure out or understand how to use our Web Access Authorized user licenses? It does not make sense to how these licenses can reside on a client computer that does not have the DOORs client installed and still gain access to the Web Access Server?
Can these be used with the License server that I already have in place? I'm just very confused as to how these licenses are used, where they are located, and how they are accessed.
If anyone can provide me with some pointers, I would be very grateful. Thanks!
flabbergast - Fri Nov 06 17:20:24 EST 2009 |
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Re: DOORS Web Access Reviewer Authorized User Licenses - Please Help
kbmurphy - Fri Nov 06 18:44:24 EST 2009
Your question is very poorly worded. I think I know what you are asking but am not sure.
The Web Access Reviewer License goes on the license server you already have. In fact, you should only have one license file (license.dat) for that server, with all of your DOORS, DWA, and any other licenses listed in it. If you have a license file for DOORS and a license file for Web Access, then someone did something wrong somewhere along the way. You need to check your DWA license back in and generate a new license file with all of your current DOORS and DWA licenses within it.
Good luck.
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Re: DOORS Web Access Reviewer Authorized User Licenses - Please Help
flabbergast - Sat Nov 07 11:07:28 EST 2009 kbmurphy - Fri Nov 06 18:44:24 EST 2009
Your question is very poorly worded. I think I know what you are asking but am not sure.
The Web Access Reviewer License goes on the license server you already have. In fact, you should only have one license file (license.dat) for that server, with all of your DOORS, DWA, and any other licenses listed in it. If you have a license file for DOORS and a license file for Web Access, then someone did something wrong somewhere along the way. You need to check your DWA license back in and generate a new license file with all of your current DOORS and DWA licenses within it.
Good luck.
In any event, the problem with DWA Auth User licenses is that you have to tie them to a specific host. As such, it cannot reside on the license server unless one were to specify the host to be that of the license server. As a Auth User license, this will mean that no outside users can use these license because the host was defined as the license server.
Now on another note, there is a small morsel of information in the install guide pertaining to the options file. However, one of the many DWA licenses that I generated does not have a key format that matches the example in the guide which is why I came here to drudge for information.
I'm bascically trying to understand where the DWA Auth User license resides, how the key must be generated (which host, host ID, etc), and how a user can check one out.
Thank you for your patience and help. Cheers.
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Re: DOORS Web Access Reviewer Authorized User Licenses - Please Help
SudarshanRao - Mon Nov 09 13:40:59 EST 2009 flabbergast - Sat Nov 07 11:07:28 EST 2009
My apologies for the lack of good grammar. I was in a heap of trouble yesterday when I originally wrote said statement so I attempted to expedite transcoding my thoughts to words.
In any event, the problem with DWA Auth User licenses is that you have to tie them to a specific host. As such, it cannot reside on the license server unless one were to specify the host to be that of the license server. As a Auth User license, this will mean that no outside users can use these license because the host was defined as the license server.
Now on another note, there is a small morsel of information in the install guide pertaining to the options file. However, one of the many DWA licenses that I generated does not have a key format that matches the example in the guide which is why I came here to drudge for information.
I'm bascically trying to understand where the DWA Auth User license resides, how the key must be generated (which host, host ID, etc), and how a user can check one out.
Thank you for your patience and help. Cheers.
DWA license is not tied to host.
You can either get a Floating license or Authorized User. When I say Authorized user, this is not the typical node-locked license. If you observe the FEATURE line for DWA, after the VENDOR_STRING, you'd see "USER_BASED" mentioned there. As you noted rightly, you would have to use options file to specify which users can access this license using INCLUDE option.
This also means that this kind of Authorized user license can be configured with license server, as kbmurphy mentions.
If you have a license server configured already, then you'd have to get your license file modified to include DWA feature.
How it works:
In terms of application, license is managed by DWA Server. When a user tries to login, license request is initiated from browser, which connects to DWA Server. DWA server will check-out a license. Exactly the reason why the license info needs to be specified in one of the XML files in DWA Server install dir.
Thus, any client that can 'talk' to DWA server can check out a license.
Hope that helps.
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