Licensing EA over multiple networks

[MarcinG]

Hello,

my organization runs multiple networks.  We have a requirement to have EA on each of them.  How does licensing model work in such case ?  Can existing set of licenses be reused on each network, or do we have to split the amount of licenses between different networks ?

Best regards
Marcin

[Geert Bellekens]

AFAIK the licensing doesn't mention networks at all.

It's either per user, or floating. As long as a user license is never used by two different users, and a single floating license is not used twice at the same moment, I guess you should be fine.

Geert

[MarcinG]

Thanks Geert, appreciate response, but I need to be sure.  The only way of ensuring that floating license is not used twice at the same time, is using the same license server for all networks, which is rather not an option for me. Indeed we use floating licenses, not user licenses.  Would be nice to hear back from Sparx directly.

[Geert Bellekens]

If you want to hear from Sparx you better email them directly.
This is a user forum, and although some Sparx employees do visit the forum, they are never acting as official representatives of Sparx.
So no official answer will ever be posted through this forum.

If you can't use the same license server over the different networks, I guess the safest bet is to divide the floating licenses over the different networks.

Geert

[Sunshine]

We had two networks for development and production and we put the licence server in the development environment with a firewall hole to allow production users to access the server in the development area. That worked fine for a few years. When covid happened and we needed to work remotely using direct connection over IPV6 we discovered the licence server didn't support IPV6 only IPV4 so resorted to the older keystore file based licence sharing and shared that across both networks with another firewall hole to allow access to the shared file. Of course we closed the licence server down and closed the firewall hole for access to that.
The only other thing to consider is to split your licence keys across the two networks with two separate licence servers in each. So for example if the user base in the two networks is 50/50 you could put half the licence keys on one network and half on the other.
Other than the above I can't see any other way to deal with two networks.