Floating licences
Hi,
could somebody explain on which basis an acquired floating license is prolonged / returned?
On a simple test I found out that it is prolonged after "some amount of minutes" and it didn't seem to matter what operations I was doing (opening dashboard, running queries, ...). The name of the last operation in the list of acquired licenses in the administration are didn't seem to be correct.
We also found that the license is not returned when a user logs out of the system.
Detailed explanation would be appreciated.
JS
could somebody explain on which basis an acquired floating license is prolonged / returned?
On a simple test I found out that it is prolonged after "some amount of minutes" and it didn't seem to matter what operations I was doing (opening dashboard, running queries, ...). The name of the last operation in the list of acquired licenses in the administration are didn't seem to be correct.
We also found that the license is not returned when a user logs out of the system.
Detailed explanation would be appreciated.
JS
2 answers
My understanding is that the server makes no attempt to keep track of
who is "logged in" ... it just knows when a client contacts the server
with a request. And once you have a floating license, that license is
logically renewed each time you perform any operation. I say "logically
renewed" because there is caching of that license information, so the
license server is not hit with every operation request, but only when
the license cache "expires".
Cheers,
Geoff
On 6/17/2010 11:54 AM, honza.stastny wrote:
who is "logged in" ... it just knows when a client contacts the server
with a request. And once you have a floating license, that license is
logically renewed each time you perform any operation. I say "logically
renewed" because there is caching of that license information, so the
license server is not hit with every operation request, but only when
the license cache "expires".
Cheers,
Geoff
On 6/17/2010 11:54 AM, honza.stastny wrote:
Hi,
could somebody explain on which basis an acquired floating license is
prolonged / returned?
On a simple test I found out that it is prolonged after "some
amount of minutes" and it didn't seem to matter what operations
I was doing (opening dashboard, running queries, ...). The name of
the last operation in the list of acquired licenses in the
administration are didn't seem to be correct.
We also found that the license is not returned when a user logs out of
the system.
Detailed explanation would be appreciated.
JS
My understanding is that the server makes no attempt to keep track of
who is "logged in" ... it just knows when a client contacts the server
with a request. And once you have a floating license, that license is
logically renewed each time you perform any operation. I say "logically
renewed" because there is caching of that license information, so the
license server is not hit with every operation request, but only when
the license cache "expires".
Cheers,
Geoff
On 6/17/2010 11:54 AM, honza.stastny wrote:
Hi,
could somebody explain on which basis an acquired floating license is
prolonged / returned?
On a simple test I found out that it is prolonged after "some
amount of minutes" and it didn't seem to matter what operations
I was doing (opening dashboard, running queries, ...). The name of
the last operation in the list of acquired licenses in the
administration are didn't seem to be correct.
We also found that the license is not returned when a user logs out of
the system.
Detailed explanation would be appreciated.
JS
And a floating license is returned for reuse after a period of time - this is currently up to 2 hours. There is a discussion in an enhancement on how this should work, and the implications, here:
https://jazz.net/jazz/web/projects/Rational%20Team%20Concert#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=101766
anthony
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Hi Anthony
My client is met with some license issues. They have installed Design Manager Floating License in the JTS server, but got some permission error when trying to perform model import operation. Other operations like create OSLC link is successful.
The difference for model import and link creation is import requiring "Design Manger" license but link creation requiring only "Design Reviewer" or "Design Contribute" license. What's strange is the user has actually been assigned with "Design Manager" floating license.
I want to know how to further check what type of license being checked out from license server in log file or from command line?
Thank you