Management of RTC contributor and developer floating license
Hi,
Using the RTC web interface and all RTC licenses are floating..... If a have mixed of RTC Contributor(70) and Developer (30) floating licenses installed in my RTC server, which is the default license type that is assigned to a user when he logins into RTC, assuming that when the user logins there are available both Contributor and Developer licenses? If the Contributor license is assigned (it has less functionality than the Developer so it would make sense to use this first), but the user needs to perform some SCM or build functionality that is not available for the Contributor license, does RTC automatically manages the license change from Contributor to Developer without forcing the user to logout and login again (this scenario assumes that there are developer licenses free, if not I understand that the user should receive an error message saying that there are not developer licenses available and no SCM and build features can be accessed). Above questions were for using the RTC Web interface. But is there any change assigning floating license types for the RTC Eclipse client? Many thanks, Ana |
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Geoffrey Clemm (30.1k●3●30●35)
| answered Oct 28 '10, 12:35 a.m.
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When a user performs an operation, the license check is "can they do
this operation, and if not, try to allocate them a license to do so". So if they currently are holding a floating Contributor license, my understanding is that they will be assigned a floating Developer license when necessary. Cheers, Geoff On 10/27/2010 1:59 PM, Ana Lopez wrote: Hi, |
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Many thanks Geoff.
When you say that the floating developer license is assigned when necessary, I assume that RTC will not force the user to logout and login again. Is this true? Do you know if the Contributor license, once it is automatically changed to a Developer license, will be also tied for a period of two hours or it is automatically unassigned by RTC once the developer license has been assigned? If not, the same user may be blocking a contributor plus a developer license for two hours... Do you know if version 3.0 that is coming very soon will have the same license model to manage floating licenses? Thanks, Ana On 28/10/2010 6:35, Geoffrey Clemm wrote: When a user performs an operation, the license check is "can they do |
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Geoffrey Clemm (30.1k●3●30●35)
| answered Nov 04 '10, 12:52 p.m.
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER
RTC will definitely not force the user to logout/login ... the retrieval
of the necessary license is automatic. WRT automatically releasing the other license ... I don't think that is done ... the other license might provide capabilities that the user still needs. WRT 3.0, there now is a check in the license server that won't let you assign a user a license that is a pure subset of another license they have, so for example in 3.0, you would not be able to assign a user both a developer and a contributor license. Cheers, Geoff On 10/29/2010 2:43 AM, Ana Lopez wrote: Many thanks Geoff. |
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