floating license and notebooks

[Mr. Sanders]

Hello,

we have some floating licenses and some notebooks.

The question is:

Is there a possibility to work on the notebook without being online on the companies network, e.g. locking one license for the notebook or something like that?

Regards
Michael

[«Midnight»]

Yes Michael, there is.

Search the forum for details on how to manage this without pain. Try notebook (or laptop) and floating license.

Go back a ways, since I don't remember seeing this come up recently.

David

[Mr. Sanders]

Hello Midnight,

thank you.

Probably you meant this one:

http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=general;action=display;num=1128649332;start=5#5

They are talking about configuring the key store, but not how.

Where can I find docu about it?

Michael

[Mr. Sanders]

OK,

SSKeyStore is the solution.

Thank you.

Michael

[«Midnight»]

Michael,

Yes, that is what - as in the tool - you use.

What you need to do is set up (some or all of) your license leases to expire in a 'reasonable' amount of time. Then connect your notebooks and acquire a lease. If you then disconnect the notebook will assume the lease is good until the expiry date and then insist you reconnect to a key store; the key store will assume the lease is in use until the expiry date and then make it available again.

If you reconnect before the lease expires the notebook and key store will renegotiate as if the notebook is just another networked user.

There are specific details on how to do this, as well as some sage advice, in a few threads in the forum. I have not kept up on the details since I don't often use floating licenses, and have not been involved in setting anyone's corporate policy for them.

David

[gpc]

Hi Michael,
I would be interested in this too if you find a solution. We seem to have our key server set to expire after one day, but I find if I close EA and start it up again, it always needs a key - even on the same day  

[«Midnight»]

gpc,

What happens if you disconnect before you shut down?

The idea is to make the local EA instance realize that: it has a valid key, and there is nobody to ask for an update. When these are both true then EA is supposed to continue to use the key it was served.

Note that you must set up a key policy in your key store that allows keys to be 'leased' [my word, I don't remember what Sparx calls it] for a period. There is another possible policy that sets a key up for the duration of a single EA session only. AFAIK this latter policy is the default.

Check the key store documentation, or search this forum for how to set up the lease policy.

NB: You can set up both. Some keys can be let on a per-session basis, while some have a lease duration. The downside (as I remember it) is that you have to put a fixed number of keys in each 'pool.' That means that if you had 5 keys in each pool, and 5 local users had keys in use while only 1 laptop user was using a key, the next local user would be denied a key. [I might have the example the wrong way around.]

Anyway, search the forum.

David